Montgomery College Germantown Campus — Local services in Germantown

I found that this college isn’t worth the time or money. In fact, this is the worst educational institution that I have attended. The advisors, professors, V.A. Representatives, facilities and equipment, and actual course content are mostly sub par.

My experience with Montgomery College Germantown Campus began with a visit to the advisor. The advisor was completely clueless, and provided me with minimal information. I’m not going to get into it, but he provided me with such minimal information that I was more confused after the appointment then before. He even provided me with some misinformation, that I’ll get into later. The bottom line is, I figured out everything on my own and I found the advisor to be complete useless.

I found the professors to be a really mixed bag. There were a couple good ones. But there were some that I really did not find to be good professors. As a former NCO in the U.S. Army I understand the basic concepts behind providing instruction. I’m not saying that I could do a better job teaching any of these classes, because I’m not a subject mater expert on any of the material. However, I can recognize signs of an incompetent instructor. Many of the professors barely knew the material they were teaching, struggled to communicate their expectations to the class, didn’t follow their own syllabuses, and often went of on wild political tangents instead of teaching the material we were required to learn. Overall, I found a lot of the professors at Montgomery College Germantown Campus to be incompetent.

Being a military veteran, I used the G.I. Bill to pay for my first and only semester at Montgomery College. I’m not going to say that the V.A. Representative at Montgomery College Germantown Campus is incompetent. He is extremely helpful, but often seems overwhelmed since there’s only one of him. I actually did have to turn in my documents twice since he misplaced them the first time.

The facilities and equipment at Montgomery College are about what you’d expect from a community college. For the most part everything is well maintained. However, the Montgomery College Website does not function properly. I had multiple issues with registration and with some various other actions. Overall, I’d say the facilities and equipment are up to par.

Finally, the course content seems to be sort of sub par. Most of my credits transferred to my new school. The one that didn’t though, was English 101. Just a word of warning, English 101 at Montgomery College is not a college level course. English 102 is, but English 101 is not. I learned this the hard way. And honestly, I feel like I was misled by the advisor. He advised me to sign up for English 101 when I qualified for English 102. Unfortunately I listened, which was a waste. It’s also misleading though since Montgomery College prides itself with being a great school to transfer from. Just keep in mind that English 101 isn’t even a college level course, so there might be more courses like that. Do your research before registering for classes, and don’t listen to the advisors. It might save you some...

Horrible experiences all around. Montgomery college is the only community college in MD that is offering a course this summer I need to be CPA eligible. Every step of the process from application, to online orientation, to meeting with an advisor, to registration, has been extremely challenging. I have called the school more than 2 dozen times and no one answers the phone. I often experience a long delay in getting emails with my questions for registration and when I do get a response, my questions are not answered. There have been a few helpful individuals in the Accounting Department that have tried to help. But overall - HORRIBLE experiences. The class I need to take has a wait list. I was told the wait list period is over and those on the wait list can no register. But this is still not an option. The course I want to take starts in less than 30 hours and I have no idea if I will be able to join. I asked to see if they can expand the class and add up to 4 additional seats and was told no. I don't fully understand this because it is an online class. I live in another county and am willing to pay the high out-of-county rates so that I can take this class. I already have a Bachelor's Degree and have attended 3 Universities prior to enrolling in Montgomery College. Never have experienced such a choppy and challenging process. I understand COVID is making things abnormally challenging... but exceptions can be made. This set back will require me to take this course in the Spring and delay my CPA eligibility by more than 6 months. Very frustrating regarding the amount of time wasted on this and how few people were willing to make a difference. Last point worth mentioning - a gentleman called me a few minutes ago from the admissions center. He wanted to see if I had any questions and about my experience. I shared with him all my concerns and frustrations. All he did was apologize. He didn't offer to help or provide alternatives. So why exactly...

I would give it 0 stars if I was allowed to. By far the worst community college experience that I have ever had. I transferred in from Hagerstown Community College for the Fall semester here and I can tell you that after being a student here for 12 weeks I am desperately trying to get back to HCC. The transfer process is a joke, the counselors here had to explained what a Math 101 class was since apparently they wanted to reinvent the wheel here and have a random range of numbers for all their Math classes, none of which are simple Math 101. I was told that I will have to take an Accuplacer to test into a class that is just a normal progression from my classes at HCC and don't even bother trying to get help from a counselor regarding which classes you should be taking next for your degree. Both the counselors that I met with had two extremely different things to say to me about the direction that I need to go in for my degree, at one point the second counselor that I met with blatantly disagreed with what the other counselor had said and she flat out told me "I am not sure why she would have told you that." They are like two hands that don't speak to each other even though they are connected to the same body. I have told everyone that I can to stay as far away from this school as possible. Unless you are looking for admin staff who are unwilling to do their job and teachers who inject their own political affiliations into classes where their political affiliation does not even matter I would pick another place to...