Davenport University — Attraction in Warren

@Andaji Ghorardim - The issues you describe are inaccurate. Anyone who attends a university and has issues like that is partly to blame for the issues.

Once you begin a program they have to continue to offer the classes so you may finish the degree they sold you. If you had to change curriculum maybe it was related to the "couple semesters" you took off? Anyway I dropped to half-time when I transferred to Davenport and within a year my program was no longer offered. Here a couple years later they are running a couple classes that were not even in the books any longer just for me so that I may finish my degree. By the way this happened at the CC I attended too. Programs change as the job market changes. They run programs they think are relevant to the job market at a certain time but since this always changes, so do their programs. Cant blame the school for that it is a business like any other and you don't sell things that don't sell for you. You get what you put in to your education. You can learn valuable information anywhere in any class if you apply yourself.

That said. I still only gave DU 3 stars so why so low after defending them? There is some truth to DU maybe not being the best choice at least from my perspective. I hear the Grand Rapids and Lansing campuses are better for IT classes but at Warren and Livonia (metro Detroit) I have had a terrible experience. While they are offering me the classes I need they are offered in an external format (online). These are classes that I should be getting hands on with equipment in the classroom but instead I am at home reading books and faking lab work (could do all that on my own....). My experience with Cisco classes was far better at the CC I attended. Since DU costs twice as much, and its clear they do not spend the money on facilities, I just do not understand why this is the case.

Overall I received the education I wanted but I would have had a better experience at another University. I am sure the Grand Rapids campus is okay but be leery of the metro Detroit campuses. Still I received my degree and I was employed already after receiving my Associates from CC. You can tell DU is trying to get better but they have quite a ways to go. Nonetheless I will graduate, I will be employed, I will receive my degree, and I learned something while I was here. As Andaji Ghorardim stated if you can you may want to weigh on other options. However if you are ready to apply yourself attend ANY university you can and I am sure will have success in your venture.

Couple other notes, my adviser changed 5 times while I attended in 4 years so I think the staff sees this too. However the staff when there was helpful in terms of registering and scheduling of classes. Instructors were 50/50 in quality. For every good 1 I had I had a bad one too. Staff was not helpful when I voiced my need for equipment in my Cisco classes at first. After 3 classes without equipment I finally got another teacher who made sure equipment was brought from Grand Rapids to Warren so it was available. So speak up, you may improve things for other students and help DU see their faults. Remember you are a customer and they are getting thousands and thousands of your dollars so they should...

I’m mad I have to give this school one star because they don’t even deserve that! I don’t recommend them at all. I was set up to attend another nursing school but spoke with a representative that made Davenport seem a lot better. So I applied to this school because they made it seem like it was a sure thing with getting accepted. I started taking general classes at the university that went towards my LPN program before it started. I was under the impression that this would establish a GPA for myself. I found out two weeks into my classes that they weren’t going to because they ended after the application deadline! I could have took those classes somewhere else for a much cheaper price! But I let that go and pressed through my classes. They told me that I had to score high on TEAS test and turn in my essay with references. I did all of the above and then some but still got denied over an issue with my transcripts. Then they made me request them to be sent over to say that yea we’re still not going to accept you. They were oh so helpful with getting me enrolled but when it came down to a simple error they don’t want to give me a call back or help me through it. They just said apply again next year. What makes you think I would want to return to this school??? This was absolutely devastating thinking that you had a plan to better yourself and it be shot down over something so little. It took me a while to be able to execute this. I wish I would have never wasted my time here. I gave up my spot at another school which pushes my graduation date back and now I have more student loan debt and out of pocket costs! A big part of picking a school is staff support along the way and after you’re enrolled here it’s clear you won’t get it. Don’t attend...

If I could give this school negative stars I would. The admission department isn't very helpful and it is very difficult to get ahold of them. The financial department is useless. They will charge you extra for classes in the middle of semesters. I'm not going to name names but some professors will throw tantrums in the middle of class and fight with students over students thoughts. If you are in their nursing program, be ready to be belittled by staff and not scheduling clinicals or last minute paperwork that has to be done asap. Forget about being sick with a doctors note, I had so many classmates fail because they were sick, some even hospitalized. I did not have a good experience at all. My family even mentioned while attending the pinning ceremony that it was sad that they had to up lift themselves and never said anything about the students accomplishments. Oh and if a class is out of 900 points and not 1000 points you automatically get a grade lower than what is posted in blackboard. Clinicals are a jock, you don't learn anything and the teachers won't stand up for you to staff when they expect you to be more than you are suppose too. Teacher will continuously tell you that this is a job interview and you should be bending over backwards for the stafd. It is not a learning experience. Joke of a school. You are going to teach yourself more than the teachers will teach you. Beware I was told by staff I would not need to know things, and have it pop up on the nclex. They are setting you up for failure and did not give you the support you...