Indiana Wesleyan University Online

IWU is a great school that offers the flexibility of earning a degree while you work full time. Do not mistake flexibility with easy. The workload was difficult at times and stretched me personally, academically, and spiritually. It is an online program... Read More and it takes grit to do this program. As with any school there are a few faculty who can be difficult but for the most part the faculty bare accommodating and gracious. Loved my time at IWU!

I have received an Associates's, a Bachelors and soon I will finish my MBA at IWU Adult Studies. This program isn't for everyone. It is online and it takes a lot of work and perseverance. I am an over 40 learner and learning does not come easy, but I... Read More really wanted it. If you cannot work independently, do not sign up online. Find a college with a campus. Otherwise, IWU is everything. I have already doubled my earnings since I started my schooling here several years ago. Good luck! Oh, did I mention? I have a son who is now attending online for his computer program and he loves it. He can work and go to school at a full-time pace.

Learner beware. This is a diploma mill. Do not sign up for this school online. The marketing firm they employ to act as admissions counselors will lie to you to get you to enroll. Firstly your degree read Bachelors of Science without any concentration... Read More noted. Your transcripts will read "General Studies" because that's actually what you've signed up for. All of the textbooks I had throughout my 2 years at this school were at least five years old. It's 2019 and one textbook they sent me was written in 2010. A decade-old textbook in IT is worthless. They do not have actual instructors online. These people are called "facilitators." They're basically digital babysitters who do absolutely nothing. 99% of them will not answer ANY specific questions regarding any homework problem. They simply will not. There are no lectures or actual classes. You learn from a textbook that they mail to you and again these books are 5-10 years old. They are so cheap and money hungry they don't use a professional online classroom platform like Blackboard. They use a glitchy, cheap platform named "Brightspace" that they literally change every couple of terms. Each evolution is worse than the last. The courses are totally canned. 100%. Just like the old textbooks the so-called course content and resources in each course is way outdated. You'll see the date the course was created. Again it is now 2019. Can someone explain why their course content is referencing resources and information from 2010, 2011, etc.? It's because that is literally the last time someone updated the "course." The courses are riddled with typos and spelling errors. They hyperlinks they provide to research and learn more about a topic is often broken, so when you click them you get a dead link because the site the link is supposed to go to is no longer there! That's routine. That is how old the material you're supposed to learn from, as an IT student, is. When you mention it to their so-called instructors they may or may not respond. If they do respond it's along the lines of, "I'll let the person who writes the course know." But you know they won't because that course has been there for seven years untouched. Many of these instructors have no business teaching. They do not have the proper credentials. Some do hold masters degrees but few hold a PhD. The one instructor who had a PhD it was in adult education and she was trying to teach programming. I asked her a simple question that she could not answer. I Googled the information in a few seconds. I requested a 1 on 1 meeting for help. She begrudgingly agreed. When we got on camera together she was sitting in her rundown living room couch with her feet up on the coffee table. She hurried me through the session in less than 10 minutes. When I told her I wasn't getting the grasp of the information from the textbook she laughed and said there's no way you can learn this stuff in 5 weeks. Those were her actual words. At that point I knew I made a huge mistake enrolling at IWU. There are no videos to learn from. Just a textbook. This same instructor embedded a video from the Instructor's resource site that students don't have access to into the course to demonstrate a concept. Nice except the volume was so poor that you could not hear the video. I let the instructor know twice that I couldn't hear the video. She never responded. I had to download the video myself and download an audio en coder to increase the volume so that I can hear. The overwhelming majority of the people teaching at this school for online courses teach at several different schools and they are not the cream of the crop. They're supposed to be Christians but they're rude, nasty, condescending, and in some cases mean. I had one particularly nasty instructor tell me that I had "diarrhea of the mouth" because I wrote a discussion post that was longer than he liked. Now mind you the discussion posts are supposed to be your classroom time. They stipulate how many posts you must make a week and some say how long they have to be. This particular man was a bully and talked nastily to several students in the ORIENTATION course. Yes, that's right. The first course you have a man who is supposed to be some sort of a Christian and a professional educator telling someone they have diarrhea of the mouth because their post was a paragraph longer than he wanted it to be. The administrative team is a joke. They will not return phone calls or respond to emails in a timely manner. They seem to feel as though they are doing you a favor by responding to you at all. The course material is an absolute joke. As a Christian I am embarrassed I went to this school and feel embarrassed to put it on my resume. There are a few real IT courses there like Java, Programming Concepts, and Networking. However, the actual coursework is fluff. They know there is no way anyone can learn programming concepts in 5 weeks. So they water it down. You answer questions out of the back of the book and talk back and forth to other students on a message board. The few classes that actually required any programming was overwhelming for most students so they just disappear and stop responding in group projects. If you care about your grade you do the whole assignment and everyone gets the points. For the networking course final project we were required to write an APA style paper. Yes, that's correct. You are frequently asked to write papers for IT coursework. You'll never use an IDE or any software more complex than Microsoft Office. You will be asked to source outdated software like Microsoft Access and given a broken link to try to download it. This school's accreditation needs to be snatched. This is another Devry or ITT Tech type operation where people enroll believing they'll get the skills needed for actual IT jobs. You won't. If you're already working in IT and just need a "degree" for your HR file to get a promotion then this is the place for you and that's what many people use this for. If you have no IT background and genuinely want to learn don't come here. There's a reason it's cheap. You will not learn anything. There is no career services so you will not get job placement assistance like a real school. Their tutoring is outsourced to India and you can never get a tutor. I asked for a tutor to help with my Programming course and was told because I was not disabled I did not qualify. However, on demand tutoring is one of the points they lie and draw you in with. This is a massive fraud and scam. I earned all As except for 1 "B." I earned the "B" because one of their administrators "taught" a capstone course that requires everyone to write a long paper on the value of Christian liberal arts education. I kid you not. Instead of my Capstone being building an app or discussing something even remotely IT related, we were required to talk about what we learned at IWU and the value of liberal arts education. When I expressed my opinion, as instructed to do, that liberal arts education is on it's way out and the issues I had with several instructors, I was given a "B." Not because the paper was written poorly but because she disagreed with my opinion. I took the time to write this to warn people. Do not enroll here for IT. Knowing what I know now I wouldn't enroll at this school for any degree but I've only taken IT courses.