San Bernardino Valley College — Local services in San Bernardino

ZERO STARS// PLEASE READ B4 ENROLLING HERE FOR YOUR SAFETY, $$, and TIME!

Website is DIFFICULT to use. (get ready for strained eyes + headache)

Admissions, Counselors, Financial-Aid gives HORRIBLE SERVICE. They are UNHELPFUL. Like uhmm Excuse me, I ordered my transcript not your attitude lady! ;L

COUNSELORS- gave me classes that were not degree applicable! They kept giving me the run around because they know the more money we put into tuition they get a paycheck. No Fukks given by them at all!

ADMISSIONS - Always having an attitude like the despise working there. They NEVER answer the phone because you have to go through an automated machine which will be about 30-1 hour or more wait time. RIDICULOUS! No fukks given by them either!

FINANCIAL-AID - Super long line! I waited almost 4 hours in line to for my financial Aid standing around super ghetto people coming to school in their pj's, shower caps, watching them drag their feet with sandals all slobbish. No Fukks given by them either.

CAMPUS-Very ghetto,It is trashy around campus at times and they need to repaint, or remodel the college. Save your money and go out alittle further to a nicer better school that actually wants you to graduate!

PARKING - Never any parking!!!! Waste of paying the $20 a semester or monthly? I dont remember, but its so over crowded at this school that people park in front of random peoples houses. (I had to do this all the time which is dangerous at night because its ghetto people and a ghetto school). I only went here for 2 semesters then moved to Texas where they have EXCELLENT SERVICE, CLEAN, HELPFUL & INFORMATIVE Counselors, professors, and staff. All what SB Valley College isn't. I am glad I do not go here for they have wasted my time, money, part of my life too.

SB Valley College is an Ugly school IMO. Someone at some point had intentions to kidnap me when walking to my car parked in the neighborhood next to the school parking lot! It was night time and thank god my ride rolled up before anything escalated.

GHETTO GUN SHOTS HEARD!-I was in class one time and our classroom and professor heard gunshots from a distance like Really?! This happened twice. Im just trying to graduate and were over here risking our lives to do so like nope.

STUDENT STORE- OVER PRICED USED BOOKS. $83 for a used psychology thin book. Are you effin kidding me?

Professors here have very strong accents where you cannot understand them from teaching the material.

Now, I am close to graduating as a Surgical Technologist with my AAS at my current school after I left SB...

My Veteran husband has been trying to sign up for classes, but the system has somehow deleted all of his applications and information on the portal not once not twice but three times therefore delaying his access to registering for classes. Once we passed that hurdle the counselor who he's had multiple appointments kept on changing his school plan and then the frustration of him trying to sign up on his own not understanding the whole process of college and how many credits he needed to enroll in, and there's a glitch in the system that the staff keeps on apologizing for and keep on calling IT and we've been in the veteran center over four times now and they tell him that if he doesn't get it correct by tonight he's gonna be stuck paying for classes out-of-pocket and it's a total nightmare. For a veteran, you think that this process would be less stressful for them but it's done nothing but activate their PTSD and stress, thank you very much to all the staff there who have done absolutely nothing but make someone who wants to educate themselves feel like it's impossible at this school. I don't get it. Does your school not want to make money and enroll people into this college, I applied for this college and never got a student ID number because of some glitch in the system.... how has your IT team not figured this out yet? It's costing you guys thousands of dollars worth of enrollment. You guys are a business and you're teaching people how to run businesses in the future and how to be professionals with degrees Yet, it seems like no one here knows how to run a business., kind of makes me weary of getting a degree here. And please don't reply to this message telling me to contact the school so you guys can fix it because I've been contacting the school in person the last 4 days and they have not been able to...

I used to make fun of people going to this school but in reality, it's not a bad campus. There are some very awesome professors here that obviously are passionate about their subjects and do well to see you understand the material. Then there are some that you can tell are just here for the paycheck. They are doing better to see that there are classes available to fit your schedule, so even if you are a full-time working adult, you can get the classes your need with minimal sacrifice to your everyday life.

I do advise that you do deep research on every professor you take. Some have a record for being unacceptably rude to students and treat grown people like they're teenagers. Not all of them are like this but the number is growing as seasoned professors are retiring. Just a heads up.

If you're looking to get a quick associates, this is the place. They have a number of programs here and plenty of transfer opportunities to get a bachelor's degree. There are some programs here that you can't find anywhere else....