Colorado Christian University

I would not recommend CCU to anyone. At first, it seems like an awesome university and worth the high price; however, after enrolling in classes you are left on your own. It's nearly impossible to get answers regarding anything, unless you are wanting to enroll in another class. The staff don't seem to know the answer to any questions regarding University protocol. The financial aid department regularly gives out inaccurate info. After attending for one semester, I dropped all my future classes prior... Read More to the drop deadline (for a 100% refund). One month later, I got an email from CCU saying, "you stopped participating in your class(es) before the scheduled end date. Please be aware that CCU considers it a withdrawal from the semester anytime you do not complete the coursework for each scheduled class in any given semester." However, I was told by both my advisor and a financial aid specialist at CCU that I could drop the second block class for a 100% refund because that class had not started yet. So, I immediately dropped the second block class and completed the final week of the first block class I had enrolled in for full credit. I have the transcripts to prove I completed the class, and there is no mention of a withdrawal of either class. Also, the advisor nor the financial aid specialist never said a word about a dropped class counting as a withdrawal. Frankly, I have never heard of that at any other college. It's ridiculous.

It’s easy to enroll and seems like everything will be straightforward and like your typical college experience. However, this has not been the case, in the least. First, the cost of classes for the absolute lack of an education is laughable. I attended a private Christian university and a state University prior to enrolling and both were far cheaper for a much better education. Plus, I always received prompt responses and accurate financial information. Second, after you start your first class, you... Read More are left on your own. It takes days (if not weeks) to hear back from advisors or financial aid department. Third, the university is not upfront with costs, fees, or scholarships. I was told I would receive two $1,000 scholarships; however, I only received one and they only applied $250 per course, which barely covers the fees applied to each class. Due to the difficulty and absolute ignorance of the university staff, I dropped all future classes (prior to the drop deadline) after only one class. I was told by financial aid department that I would NOT have to pay anything because my financial aid and scholarship covered the cost of the one class. However, a few days later I received a bill for $312.00. I decided to pay the bill just to be done with the school. This brought my balance to $0.00. Then one month later, I received another statement saying I owed an additional $250.00. When I called to ask for an explanation, I was told that the person I spoke to initially made an error, and didn’t calculate it correctly. I received the same information from two separate employees. I was also told that they didn’t know why the $250.00 was just now appearing on my statement when it should’ve been included after I dropped the class. There was no explanation for the new $250.00 fee on the student finance page. It was simply included in the total cost and amount owed now. CCU is a headache and a financial disaster. If you want a quality education without having to deal with a negligent school, go to a local college or university. You won’t get the run around, all fees and financial aid will be given upfront and accurately, and you’ll get a better education for a much better price. I’ll be returning to my previous university, and my two family members who had planned to enroll in Masters programs at CCU have decided to go elsewhere.

This school gives so much false advertising! They present them self like this too good to be true and it is! The enrollment and getting accepted and getting started is to easy. But as soon as you no longer want to pursue it's Takes months to drop a classes and they do it on purpose so you have to pay for them. They take all your financial aid before you even being the course. And when I called to ask why all this is going on they give you the run around. Long story short: easy to enroll, exhausted... Read More and stressful to not continue even when I told them 2 weeks in that i don't want to pursue and didn't even do any classes!!! Now they won't give me any of my financial aid back! 1 class that I never took but too late to drop is costing me $1400. And I still owe$600 out of pocket! Save your Time, money and peace of mind. Don't apply. Too expensive.

An extremely good online Masters program that was excellent preparation for future opportunity in a PhD program. I had close faculty contact (and feedback), excellent textbooks and courses, and met lifelong friends. Online programs like this necessitate consistent interaction and investment, but CCU made this easy with small class sizes (They averaged 11!) and good access to professors email and text numbers. I earned an MA in a year and a half and had several options in ministry, chaplaincy, and... Read More future study. The program concentrated on writing skills and several strong essays of 8-20 pages which paved the way for future conference papers accepted and online publishing. I was extremely impressed and would recommend this Theological Studies program to anyone interested in Church History, Systematic Theology, Ethics, Aesthetics, and Doctrine!

I would not recommend this school to anyone. I went from community college to here while still doing class work at my community college ( which I loved) . We had a recruiter come to my school and I thought I'd look into it. I talked to an advisor and she immediately got me signed up, which in theory sounds nice but red flag I did not know the cost of the class going into it, which I wish I would have. I was told discounts were still being applied and tried to figure financial aid out and my final... Read More bill .My previous school had all this figured out before someone enters class not after. I was rushed so fast into the class and while still attending to my other life commitments I tried to adjust and make sure I got the assignments in on time. I was also told this program was made for people whose had full time jobs and only one assignment was due a week which is not true! Billing was not made clear to say the least and having to put considerable effort into it along with everything else wasn't right. I was so rushed in and they were not upfront or transparent about the cost of the class given to me. Having just signed up I had minimal understanding of how to navigate there self service portal, where all your information is at. Now I owe $1,230 ( after "discounts" ) for a class that can NOT be transferred and was USELESS, it was basically an ORIENTATION class. I did not drop the class because I was trying to figure cost and how it all worked which I feel should have been shown to me in the beginning. Having attended community college before transferring and never having a problem indicates the problem is with this college. I wished I had known how they operate here which I do not feel is in the best interest of the students at all! All that matters here is getting money. I feel scammed. I would read reviews from https://www.gradreports.com/colleges/colorado-christian-university first before attending. I was looking forward to getting my degree here and growing spiritually instead all I got was a headache cheated. They were sneaky and deceptive and should not be representing the Christian faith!

My first class was great! The instructor was amazing. Unfortunately that was the only good thing I can review. I was signed up for classes by my advisor without even getting to choose. I’ve had to withdraw from the second class due to husbands health and his father being very sick with cancer. His father passed away this past week. On numerous occasions I have reached out to counselors to try and navigate and figure out what to do. Not one call has been returned from Clay Haverty. Now my financial... Read More aid is being reviewed even though per the handbook I have reasons that are legitimate for not being able attend classes. In addition CCU withdrew me from my current class even though I technically haven’t missed more than a week. So, at this point I won’t be attending fall classes with CCU and will transfer to another University to finish my degree. I feel like CCU signs you up and then just takes your money. I’m pretty disappointed in the WHOLE experience at Colorado Christian University.

Do your research before you agree to join this program! I am a missionary wife and am having a very negative experience attending this school. Also, get documentation of everything that is promised! Don't rely on phone calls. Trust me, they will ignore your pleas for documentation and pressure you to take their phone calls. These will not protect you in case they don't keep their promises to you. Everything I write is from an ongoing experience right now. It is promised on their website that you... Read More can obtain this degree while keeping your full-time job. This is only true if you have a certain type of job. You will have more than one course of volunteer work. You will also have a semester long observation/practicum. They will not give you assistance or adequate time to prepare for this. I had the wrong type of job and was faced with the choice of quitting my job, my class, or getting fired by my boss for taking off to volunteer. In some cases you are only given one week to find volunteer work. If you withdraw because you will fail the class if you don't have a volunteer job by the deadline, you will owe the University money and have to take it over. This results in more student loan debt. Then you get more trapped because you can't withdraw from a class and transfer to another University because they will hold onto your transcript until you pay the money for the class you couldn't find volunteer work for. There is no consideration of how the pandemic has affected the search process for finding volunteer work. There is no consideration for how organizations teach. The class requirements are not flexible. You must teach according to their teaching strategies and not the volunteer organizations. Be sure and ask ahead of time how many classes require volunteer work. Unless you have the perfect job for this degree, you will need time to look for a place to volunteer. They don't give adequate notice to look. Also, you will not be given a letter from the University to attach to your resume of class volunteer requirements. This makes potential volunteer organizations upset. But the University will insist that you only give phone numbers of University staff in case they have questions. No one will give you documented answers to most of your questions. You will be forced to make phone calls for communication. Your emails will be passed on because the staff won't answer your questions because they don't know the answers. You will notice that your emails were passed on after and not before they tell you in most cases. So be sure and use the privacy option on your emails so they can't be passed on. It took me too long to find that feature. Organization of simple things such as links to necessary forms sometimes don't work and there was even a discussion forum of people trying to get the correct form for a few weeks once. The program is very poorly organized. Each class feels like you are studying the same thing over and over. After a few classes you are no longer learning anything new. You are just learning the same thing with a different textbook. Sometimes the same textbook is used more than once for classes. And it's to teach the same thing that was taught with that textbook in a previous class. While I would give the undergraduate psychology program five stars, I would give this one a zero. In the undergraduate program, they care about you and send you long e-mails of encouragement, prayers, and scripture. They will also follow up if you are struggling. They don't demand you call them. They also have a good academic program that is outstanding. This graduate program is the other extreme. If you do not fit their perfect stereotype of a model student for their program, you will pay dearly. Their perfect students won't have to put in the effort you do and will sail through without a struggle. In fact they laugh in zoom meetings how easy it is for them while other silently suffer. One member of staff made me call and promised he would help me anytime. I reached out through email and he replied that he trusted I would work it all out myself. Another woman on staff called me and promised to help. Instead, she is strangely silent. Unless they change this program, don't join without research and documentation. If they don't back anything up with documentation, run as fast as you can now! Don't get trapped! They won't help you and you will drown unless you learn how to swim on your own.

I attended Colorado Christian University with big hopes (and promises) of learning from solid Christian leaders about how to lead people orientated organizations in Truth. While there was some good learning about leadership and real world applications of the bible today, the faculty of this school seems to hold their students to a much higher standard than they hold themselves. I was earnestly searching honest Christian mentorship, but at every turn it seems there was somebody standing in my way... Read More to discourage me. Maybe this was a test from God about how much I wanted it, but needless to say the leadership at this school was not very encouraging to my success. After promised help by the Career Services department, the head of the department all of a sudden called me a "job-hopper" and said he won't support that kind of behavior because he has a "reputation to uphold." I'm 40 years old, of course I'm going to have a few jobs under my belt, besides, I thought the real Christian reputation was to help fellow believers, not to just look out for yourself? I had other negative experiences with faculty at this school, but that was one instance that really got to me. I showed this man nothing but respect and he turned his back on me without even knowing me. I was honestly praying for a positive career experience for me and my family, but I got the door shut and locked in my face by someone that just decided to discard me. That one really hurt and is still with me. Some of the online classes had positive instructors, but for the most part they are just following a preloaded class template, and do not dive deep like they think they do. Professor involvement in the online threads in very minimal, if at all, and there are pretty much no virtual classrooms or face time with professors. If the professor does decide to do a virtual "check-in", it will typically be when they are working and have down time, like on a Tuesday at noon (I never had the opportunity to attend one). There is a very odd dynamic here with a "Liberal arts school" and a "Conservative-Good ole' Boy" vibe. This school, (I believe unintentionally), gave me the permission I needed to question Christianity. By the way, the Student Handbook that they are so fond of, gives a list of accepted Bible translations that are accepted by the university. It's odd that the King James is not on that list, however one of the books that is recommend as a course material is a Leadership Bible that is KJV. It was very odd here, their use of the term "Christian" needs to be taken with a large grain of salt, but if you have an open mind, a good attitude, and can think and stand up for yourself, you will navigate their labyrinth of inconsistencies and be stronger for it.

Absolutely awful. The first couple semesters were okay. The enrollment process was simple, it was only after committed to the program that I was made aware that it was going to take over 3 years to complete my degree. The classes themselves have little real-world application, and there is a HEAVY focus on relating every assignment to the bible. My student service adviser was difficult to get in touch with and didn't make my options clear, which resulted in a substantial charge to my account. With... Read More that being said, the financial department does a good job and is pretty straightforward with how the finance side of the organization works. I do not recommend and wish I had never attended this school.