Baker College of Owosso — Local services in Owosso

I searched for a school that offered online classes for the marketing program and found Baker. One of my requirements for Baker was that I would be able to attend majority online and one class at the brick and mortar school. They told me that this specific program was very flexible and that I would have no problem with the schedule I had discussed. During the admissions period, I had almost zero contact from anyone at the school. The one person that did keep in contact did a fantastic job and went above and beyond to make sure I was registered before classes would start on the 6th of January. My assigned academic advisor sent me an email saying to check out her calendar for date to register for classes. Upon looking at the calendar, to my surprise, there were zero appointments open from the day she sent the email all the way until January 13th. Obviously this did me no good as school started the 6th.

Their online registration system is very flawed. I consider myself very technologically sound yet I was unable to register for classes for a whole 2 week period because the catalog would not pull up any of the courses I was searching for. I followed the Baker video for registration to a T. In fact, I had the video pulled up on my 2nd monitor and followed directions on my main monitor word for word and was unable to even pull up the class that the registration video demonstrated. Very very bad system.

Fast forward again to the January 6th. I had received ZERO instruction as to how I would know when classes started or what the procedure was for doing anything. I emailed my advisor and she replied, "Oh I forgot to tell you about Canvas, this is where you will find everything for your courses". Up until that very point, on the first day of school, I found out about Canvas.

Now to the course work. I manage a business and watch my kids, so multitasking is a normal thing for me. Each of these courses I had registered for required 5+ hours of reading as well as an additional 5+ hours of homework. I've attended university before and had no where near this workload with 18 credit semesters I was taking. These online classes met every day and had those 5+ hours of reading and homework everyday. How is that manageable? How is that flexible? The one class I was going to be doing at the actual school needed to be later in the evening but the latest course they offered ended at 6:15pm and was only available on Mondays. How is that possibly considered flexible?

Needless to say, I withdrew from school. Was disappointing but I was very much mislead initially which, now, makes it seem like they were only interested in getting my money. The courses were also essentially learn on your own. I'm not going to pay hard earned money for something I can do on my own time.

Baker online might be for you if you have no kids, no job, and no social life. I did not enter Baker thinking it would be easy. I entered ready to go BASED OFF OF WHAT I WAS INITIALLY TOLD. The reality was COMPLETELY different and not flexible at all. 100% not self paced as I...

I've been at Baker since we had trimesters and than when we had the conversion to semesters 4 years now. This school is in all honest a huge joke, nobody knows what they seem to be doing and they are lacking so many funds that they keep firing people and mixing the offices together. Sure some of professors are great and the people but that's about it. All they care about is appearance and just recently decided to be up to date on the fire codes, let alone the dorms are horrible. They used to have both dorms open but enrollment is so low because nobody wants to come back to Baker live in housing which is why they barely have enough residents to fill one dorm. The RA's drink with the underage residents and the RHC and campus safety do nothing about the residents smoking weed in their cars or rooms because its "private property" and "we don't know what were doing" when it smells like a grow house half the time. The dorms have all kinds of issues with maintenance and never either fixed the issues or came back 3 weeks later on the problem, this one boy sat in the dark all year because he kept reporting that his lights was out in his room and no one did anything about it. One of the main doors wouldn't shut in the rooms and it didn't get fixed for weeks causing a huge safety issue because people just kept walking in and out of their room without consent. The RHC didn't push anything of it until campus safety was called on the issue. Once you're there longer than two years you soon realize Bakers...

I attend Baker College, I have for the past year and have taken classes at other locations. The staff is well educated and they teach classes they know and classes that pertain to their own work. Half of these reviews are from people who are under educated and cannot write a simple review in an honest way. Baker plans to change their schedules so the classes are 16 weeks like any other College SO CREDITS WILL TRANSFER STARTING SEPTEMBER 2017. I promise this is an amazing school, it is one of the cheapest private schools around (YES PRIVATE CAREER COLLEGE). All the staff I have met are very nice, very busy, and make sure you get what you need. The teachers are the same way, even if a teacher does not like you, they still treat you fairly when it comes to grades. I do recommend Baker College, they have plenty locations to choose from, all offering different programs and some offer the same. They will tell you before hand which locations offer what, and if you should go for the 2, 4, or more years to obtain a degree you can use and not waste time and money going after one you will not need in your future. Baker is always updating their careers available by the amount of need for each one in the world. They only offer careers and programs that people are hiring. I have researched Baker College for a few years prior to attending. The dorms on the Flint campus are nice, clean, and well kept on the off seasons and during breaks. Baker College is worth the time,...