Houston City College - District Office — Attraction in Houston

My entire semester experience was the worst experience i've ever experienced at any college. The ENTIRE working staff is completely useless, incompetent, lazy, and simply do not care AT ALL. To begin, when transferring my transcripts, for some reason they registered my already accredited classes, but put the wrong date of completion, they put that I completed all of these courses in 2015 (when i transferred it was 2014), because of their mistake i missed out on registering in the classes i needed because the classes had filled up. This school tries to do whatever they can to keep your student loans, financial aide is a nightmare through this "college". It is Dec. 5th 2014, my semester ends next week, and i have still not received my loan for this semester. NOBODY KNOWS ANYTHING THAT IS GOING ON EVER!! They always direct you to someone else who knows nothing and its a continuous pattern. Also the "Advisors" are a joke, the first one i saw was extremely disorganized, didn't know anything (what a surprise) and delayed my admission, the second one was very rude and seemed bothered that she had to do her job (which was tell me to look stuff up online, Thanks for the help! :/ ) I tried to set up a date to take my final at the testing center nearby that my teacher told us to take it at, well turns out that place closed a couple years ago, so as usual i had to try and find it the hard way. This school is a non-stop hassle nightmare, if you like being treated with very little respect, if you like spending lots of time trying to figure out things and fix THEIR mistakes due to their incompetence and laziness,or if you call the "HELP DESK" and their response to every question is "Idk whats you's talkin bout', you might wanna ax someone else in another department" Then this is the college for you, If you expect a professional, organized, efficient college you better look elsewhere. Also, everyone one of my "teachers"(idk why they are called that, they literally don't do anything besides boast about the fact they have a PhD yet you have to teach yourself everything) all my teachers, every single hand out they gave out was filled, and i mean filled with grammatical errors and spelling errors, i get that not everyone is perfect but come on, your a "college professor" and love to be called Dr. because you have a PhD, at least get one hand out without a spelling error. Oh last thing, several times my teacher just didn't even show up at all, no note on the door or alert or anything, no show, and then thought it was funny when he returned the next class, not one apology for wasting our...

Worst customer service I have ever in my life experienced. Since day one they have been un-knowledgeable, rude, self righteous, and not willing to help in any way. This is my first year attending college and it has been hell to say the least. I was told I had to test, and then after taking the placement tests was told I didn't have to, so I wasted time and money away from work. Was told that the office stayed open for financial aide and the website even displayed it as such, only to drive all the way out there and find out it was closed. I've had multiple reps in all aspects tell me one thing only to have another rep tell me another. I was told I was awarded grant money, only to have it lowered two weeks before school started, and my classes dropped when they told me I just had to attend and it would pull from my grant once I was shown as present... Seriously what is wrong with this staff? Obviously they only want to receive an easy paycheck. Let me also be clear and state that I did everything proactively and actively followed up to make sure everything was in order in a very polite manner only to have everything fall apart because of their poor guidance right before I have to attend class. If they didn't offer a fashion design program or if i had better options I would NOT have chosen this school. They don't even deserve the one star i am obligated to offer for this review. All staff needs to be reevaluated and find people who want to actually help kids go to college. I've had to struggle for 7 years just to get here and I won't let this college ruin my progress. I filed a formal complain with the Board of Education, lets hope they investigate and find this school to be what it is. A joke. Thanks...

Houston Community College is highly unorganized. I am taking online classes and made an appointment to take a test at one of the campuses. I called them and they gave me the notion that everything was set. But, when I arrived on campus, they told me that they did not have my test. I attended LoneStar College prior to attending HCC and I was expecting the same or atleast similar testing proctor systems that LoneStar college had set up, where you can go to any campus to take your test. Unfortunately that is not the case. I wasted my time, gas money in addition to having to drive myself to Downtown, just to take my 2 hour exam when the teacher teaches at the campus that is only 8 minutes away from my home.

I guess you get what you pay for.

So if you attend HCC, just expect disorganization and you should be ok. They do have some great teachers like Professor Lunday, or Professor Thomas. If you do your research and have time, you should be fine. But, if you have alot on your plate already, this place may not be for you unless your do your research and communicate effectively. Also, heads up, even if you do online classes, you need to go on campus to get your student ID which you will need for library catalog access and remember your email password or you won't be able to get into the...