Delaware County Community College - Upper Darby Center — Local services in Upper Darby

This school will only allow you to transfer 36 units in, they could care less about all the hard work that you've done in previous schools. This is designed so they can make you take more of their classes, thus bringing in more money for the school. They are just another business with no concern or consideration for you as a person, you're just a number to them

The food in the cafeteria is extremely high, you would think with all the money that they make from you taking additional classes and funding they receive they would lower their food prices for their students. Every classmate I've spoken to tries to bring their own food now. Ex; One banana is almost three times that of in the store or at Wawa, cups of coffee are marked up (really?). You couldnt offer a cup of coffee to the students at a discount? And the majority of food offered is not healthy but fat foods: candies, cookies, sweet rolls, pretzels, muffins, every type of Danish, puddings. If you want a salad plan on paying an astronomical amount for it

Speaking of coffee, if you have to go to the restroom, learn to squat because they are too cheap to buy any toilet covers for their seats. I'm from out of state and I have never seen a school not offer covers to their students either that or if your female prepare to be dedicating five minutes of your time to lacing the toilet with toilet paper. It's truly ridiculous, are we in kindergarten or are we adults now?

There are no bulletin boards for students to put any personal or academic information up, such as : advertising tutoring services, rooms for rent , organizations or program, etc. Other colleges that I've gone to have them located throughout their schools and in prime location such as libraries, cafeteria. main hallways etc. I have not been able to see or find any so far

The tech walls are plain it would be nice to see some pictures of some of the great inventors up but they have nothing. It feels empty and boring with no inspirational pictures throughout the...

This school is not set up for student success! This is a Business and they operate just like a Business. Once they get your money they don’t care if you like the service they provide or not. You can complain until your BLUE in the face. Especially students who are PRE NURSING STUDENTS. They know that NURSING is a booming field. And they put you in these Anatomy and Philosophy 1&2 course without even having Bio 100/110 as a prerequisite. Half of the administration has NEVER taken these classes or it has been 20 plus years since they have taken this course. And they have an expectation of the STUDENTS but they have never sat throughout this course. Crazy right! In addition when you complain about the teachers they look at you like YOUR THE PROBLEM! They pretend to look into things THEY DONT! Trust me! They will always side with their teacher. Their attitude is YOU SHOULD BE GRATEFUL FOR WHAT YOU GET HERE because at a 4 year university you won’t get that.SO TAKE WHAT YOU CAN GET. And the teachers can suck. They do not care. Especially the n their BIO COURSES they have maybe 2-3 teachers who have GREAT RATINGS! The rest are TERRIBLE. And year after year THEY CONTINUE TO COME TO DCCC AND they are ALLOWED TO not teach properly, decide what type of help they want to give students and they will FAIL you with no regards that they are messing up your transcript and chances of getting into a decent NURSING PROGRAM. This how you know its...

DCCC's Upper Darby location is great because of it's convenient location behind the shopping plaza and the trolley station across the street! Marple doesn't this luxury (but does have a bus stop, obviously) and the snacks and other food sold at Marple is sooooo expensive when the food sold in the Upper Darby campus' nearby stores are much cheaper! Miss Sara at financial aid is such a sweetheart and the same can be said about the rest of the staff and even the security guards are friendly. Plus, depending on where you live, it's quicker to get to than Marple.

I only rate three stars because Mr. Bill at the learning commons is a pain in the ass. He's quick to tell other students to be quiet or to lower their voice when students are holding a conversation but most of the time when he's talking to someone himself he's louder than we are and it's so freakin' irritating! So if it can be avoided, avoid the learning commons when he's there and if you have to be there when he is just don't talk at all unless you absolutely have to. My other cons are that the campus itself is so small and wish it at least had a second floor, and the Macs that are against the wall can be uncomfortable to sit at. Also, having more advisors and financial aid people wouldn't...