Ivy Tech Community College — Local services in Valparaiso

Good luck trying to get an answer to your question in a time-sensitive manner. Phone trees that loop or end in automated hang ups are everywhere and speaking to an actual person is beyond absurdly difficult. Your best bet is to (hopefully) find an email address to roughly the same area you're looking for an answer from. If you are trying to reach the bursar's office, then you are out of luck. No number listed on their page and the IVYLINE operators don't have it either. In fact, the only REAL information you can find for the bursar's office is their physical address so if you don't live near downtown, you're going to have to make a journey to have even the simplest bursar questions answered. On top of all this is the hassle of navigating the website. You'll have to incessantly jump back and forth and navigate between campus connect, blackboard, and a number of third party plugins and websites to receive vague instructions on who to eventually break down and email or (attempt) to reach by phone. The default method is just take a whole day and go to the North Meridian campus and bounce from office to office to get clear and wholesome advice. In regards to learning, if you have the patience to wade through all the bureaucratic hoops and unnecessary obstacles, you'll find the faculty is more than helpful (if you can reach them) and I've had some amazing teachers. The very last thing I have to say is that if you are looking for a degree in a STEM field, you're probably better off just getting a general studies degree and transferring. Science classes at Ivy Tech are mainly "101" entry courses and offer very little in the way of an advanced science degree, if any. Ivy Tech's main focus is on business and health with a peppering of...

I suggest nobody come here unless you really have to. Your advisor will lie to you about you date to graduate. English 101 teacher will target you for no reason, she will embarrassed you in front of other people and yell and scream. Rhetoric and argument teacher will make you fight for your life if you don't agree with her political beliefs. She will yell at students over disagreements over covid that she brought up. If you are older than 19 you will be blamed if your 19 year old partner refuses to do any work because you are older. You may be thrown out of a class if you dare go to a your four year colleges mandatory first year student experience and sign up for classes. The teacher knew about this BTW. Every English teacher here has a horrible attitude problem and feels they are doing you a favor. Did I mention people here don't know what they are doing regarding helping you graduate. The only people who should come here are adults who have been out of highschool for a while (this was my case) nursing or any medical student or anything that isn't intellectual example being psychology. I had no advisor through 2020 and nobody would answer my emails or calls. When I was months from graduation my new advisor disappeared. I would never come back...

This school is a disorganized nightmare. Signing up for classes is called "Fast Enrollment", but I was forced to wait over six hours just to sign up for my classes. I recently finished my first semester and got screwed out of credits, because terrible "professor" who only talked during class and never actually taught. Instead of talking she could of actually been teaching the students how to do their work. Showing up to class was pretty much pointless. I could of easily stayed home and done the work online. By the end of the class though I received 0 out of 6 credits.I always turned in my work, but this lazy poor excuse of a "professor" never actually graded the work, so I was never up to date with my time. Never knowing if I was doing bad or not in the class. I was forced to play the guessing game and somehow got screwed out of credits. Even the credits for just showing up to class. Is this even a school or just a ploy to steal money from students who want to learn. Don't go to this school, look...