Paine College — Local services in Augusta

As a current student, I have talked highly of Paine on national news but I promise you I regret it. Where do I start? Oh, here. The professors are lazy and don't send emails or grade assignments for weeks and sometimes months after they are due. They don't show up to class and have the nerves not to send an email and then if they do show up, it is 15 minutes or more later. Next, the faculty is lazy and won't respond to complaints until 90 days later or not at all. The professors cheat students out of grades and nothing is done. The dorms are horrible for $6,000 plus added to tuition. They don't have any privacy and it come with one stove (it may be broken) and a refrigerator in the WHOLE dormitory building. The classroom promethean boards or projectors have not worked for the last 2 semesters that i've been there. You can't even sit in the lunchroom if you don't have a meal plan during lunch hours (which doesn't stay open long, but i guess that's most HBCUs). I have a had a professor who suffers with a bad case of PTSD and he forgets what he says. I have also had a professor who lied about extra credit and did not give it to the students who did the work (by the way that appeal for that grade has been going on since December and they still have not resolved it). OMG! Can someone tell when extra credit wasnt worth anything? I'll wait. They have horrible potholes throughout the campus ( like equators on Mars). Its so much I can honestly say, so...

This is one of the WORST colleges in Georgia. If I could give 0 stars I would. Where do I begin… The campus is always empty and the classrooms are always empty like a ghost town, theres no decorations or anything. It’s like that in every class and smells like weed. There are barely any teachers (maybe less than 20) that teach the material here and actually make the students want to learn. They take weeks to grade assignments. The buildings are very old and dirty. the classrooms are not cleaned. The bathrooms and showers in the dorm halls are absolutely disgusting and doing laundry is always a hassle. How can anyone learn here? There is no technology no nothing its so depressing- it doesn’t even feel like you’re at a college. The students aren’t learning anything at all and hate it here too. You get fined for every little thing (room not clean, or don’t attend events) the projectors in class wont work at all and this is a private college? Tuition is over $14,000 per semester and that’s what you’re getting? And AU is literally across the street and is 10x better than this and it’s cheaper! Its like two different worlds - night and day - Oh the irony. Don’t go to this “school” -take your time and money elsewhere - trust me your not missing out on...

Proud magna cum laude grad Class of 1989 who majored in Biology and Chemistry. I was a motivated, focused student who received inspired instruction from dedicated scholars who taught me to reason, analyze and draft a compelling argument. Its small class size and communal setting in Augusta provided me the foundation to excel at Harvard University, go on to study at Brown University, work in Pharmaceutical Manufacturing QA, and safeguard public health as a Compliance Officer with the FDA. I am proud to call myself a Paineite knowing my HBCU alma mater, though resource constrained, offers a solid liberal arts education that prepares alumni to have...