University of Arkansas Grantham

I did my AS degree elsewhere and completed my BS at Grantham University in 2021. Grantham curriculum is similar to other expensive Colleges and Universities, also the speed of completing each complex topic is about the same. I checked other schools and the only significant difference was the cost, therefore, I chose Grantham. I don't see any reason for owing approximately an extra $40,000.00 with a name brand school on my certificate. I had a few issues with a certain so called useless instructor,... Read More and I failed one class twice. The school was still willing to work with me to achieve my goal. My advise to anyone who is pursuing a degree is, passing the exams and quizzes should be your main priority. It was difficult to fully understand so much information in that short time, so the focus was on just passing the classes. I am only elaborating on the difficult classes such as, cal 1 and 2, physics 1 and 2, circuit analysis, and so on. I was working during my time at Grantham, therefore, I never do more than 2 classes per semester. I hope this information helps someone. Over and out.

I was attending the University of Arkansas's eVersity, to complete both my associate's degree and my bachelor's degree. Before I could finish my bachelor's eVersity "purchased" Grantham University, and I was forced to transfer. While enrolled with eVersity it was always very accommodating to a working student's schedule. As a mom of four, working full time and attending school was a stretch, but one that I was willing and able to make with eVersity. The financial advisors were always on top of things... Read More and never had any trouble. Then the instructors were always involved with their instruction and the reading material matched up with the assignments, and it was a realistic amount of instruction. When transferring to Grantham my financial aid advisor didn't seem to know how to work with student loans, and I received large refunds, but then also received a bill for tuition. Then on to the classes, the reading never seems to line up with the assignments, but I have tolerated it because professors were helpful, until this term, which happens to be my very last term. The class I am in bounces all over the place and the assignments might be over something you won't read about for two weeks or something you read earlier. On top of that, the required reading generally includes 2 chapters of 50 plus pages, regulations to read from a federal record which are very long, and then a "lecture" which is never about what our required reading was about, and takes at least another hour to read and then a short video. Nothing makes sense, I cannot get in touch with the professor, and it is now week 8 and she has only graded up to week 2...and there are only four students enrolled in the class. I have reached out to my advisor who is very nice, but nothing happens, she was supposed to reach out to the Dean, and I heard nothing back from that. I cannot find any way to contact the Dean myself, or any other leadership member. Point blank worst experience, thank goodness I was close to finishing my degree, or this would have completely derailed me.

I do not recommend coming to Grantham University. They convince you that they are a great school and it turns out not to be true. I have done everything asked stay on time with assignments emailed people when I have concerns (communicated) and they literally do not solve them most of the time. Financial team is no help and certain teachers will be no help. It is rare that you will meet great people at Grantham University. Some people are saying if you put in the work you will have a great experience.... Read More I have been doing and putting in work 10x and I’m still having the worst experience. As long as Grantham gets their parts and are satisfied most of them care nothing about the students. They have gotten rid of or disconnected all the people that actually care to help with the process of getting education at this university.

Now the University of Arkansas Grantham, I hope they push for better accreditation. Like most online schools I had some really bad professors who basically just gave you As. I also had some real tough professors who really pushed me to do better work and judged every assignment. If you cant manage your own time, do not attend an online college because that's part of the learning. You need to be able to understand what you are doing each week and manage your time to complete the assignments. I work... Read More for the government so getting the degree done increased my earning potential but that did not take away from the amount I learned at Grantham. I have used a large portion of my lessons in my career already and look forward to the rest of it thanks to Grantham. While the school had a bit of a diploma mill feel, you need to make an effort to learn and apply the lessons. Yea you can pass going through the motions but don't you are cheating yourself.

I had to write another review. I just can't understand why people think it's possible to put in 10% of the work you'd have to put in if you were in a classroom somewhere. Grantham NEVER applied for more aid than necessary. What they plan to apply for is CLEARLY posted online after you log into your account. You have to electronically sign it BEFORE they will actually commit to the funding plan. If you don't agree with it then they state for you to call them so it can be discussed and be more suited... Read More to the individuals needs. These people think the admin is supposed to do all the work! It is very clear that some students just aren't cut out for online education. These are the same people who would NEVER be disciplined enough to have a work-from-home career/job/employment. It's truly sad that people are just that lazy and want everything handed to them instead of putting forth AT LEAST 100%. EXPECT A NEGATIVE EXPERIENCE IF YOU PLAN TO GIVE ANY LESS!

There is a negative review of the Financial Aid Dept. at Grantham University. My experience with the FA Dept was, without a doubt, extremely simple and easy. It was PAINLESS. I can say it did have the potential to be stressful, frustrating, and negative. What makes the difference between a positive and negative experience with Grantham FA Dept had everything to do with responding to the emails they sent when there was paperwork or action needed to be addressed. Had I not responded to those requests,... Read More which were by email mainly, I would not have received my Federal Aid on time and would have needed to postpone my actual start date. The attention needed throughout the FA process and my classes/courses was exactly the same. You have to do the work, the school wasn't going to do the work for me! That's simply common sense. You get out of something what you put into it. If you don't do what's expected of you then you can't expect the other end to do what's expected of them. It's just that simple! I'm not exactly sure what the issue was with the individual who gave a very negative review of GU's FA Dept. but I can say they were very diligent, helpful, and informative throughout the whole Financial Planning/Aid process. I'm sure GU did something right or positive with their FA process but only commented on how terrible they were. Since almost all the reviews were positive, just as mine was, it appears the issue was with the student. They couldn't possibly do well with everyone else except one person. The record speaks for itself. I do apologize for such a lengthy review but I thought it important & relevant to convey my experience. To all the prospective GU student who may need financial aid, DO NOT BE DETERRED BY THAT NEGATIVE REVIEW. I'm certain your experience will be just a seamless, efficient, simple, and effective as mine. I mean this only as constructive criticism. Learning how to write well, use correct grammar, punctuate, and spell never hurt anyone. Actually it makes for a more reader friendly experience. I wish you the best with continuing you education.

Worse School I have ever attended. I had two instructors who I have never seen, talked to, and their response to your questions take 72hrs and weekends are not included. Two classes I had Network Cert and Cyber Cert classes, I had an extreme amount of assignments that had me working 16hrs to complete them before the date to turn them in. You will be given instructions by this so called instructor that basically does their job because you will not have any Zoom meetings or phone call correspondence... Read More at all. They tell you to read 3 Chapters a week, write 2 Discussions and respond to two, YOU WILL BE GRADED! So aside from all the reading and research you have to do you have to also do Labs and quizzes each week! You have a limited time to complete the labs in their Testout site. After so long doing labs you're asked to extend or turn it in. I asked questions to my instructions regarding the labs, it took over 72hrs for a response! How does that work for anyone who has a life? I thought this was meant to be a casual learning experience, but instead I was so stress out I ended up in the Drs...After I told them I will drop out now and pay what I owe they said I may get money back and to hold off on the payment. I waited, but instead of them sending me money back they claimed I was past due...This company is a complete SCAM and worthless for education. Udemy will give you more video instruction than this raggedy "Company"! I would never call this place any sort of education source. They are a company who SCAMS potential students and gives the student the the Instructors work to do for them and say you have to read this and that...why do we pay you!? That is your job to educate the students! Stay away from this raggedy education company!

The reviews on this panel that talk about Cengage are correct. Only they have moved away from ANY books at all and moved to online only access, but still charge you the $250 plus book fee. And don't get me started on the teachers. The classes that are taught by decent teachers are few and far between. Some of them are really not good teachers at all. I know some of these people are PhD's, well goody for them But if they can't teach it, it does no one any good. Don't have an Apple computer and go... Read More to this school, because much of the software your required to load for labs is not Apple compatible. Which is funny since Apple offers the best incentives for school laptops. Just stay away. Look at more major colleges for their online programs. In this field, you get what you pay for. If $50 per credit hour is what you are seeking, then by all means, you will get what you pay for, $150 of education. But if you seek an environment where your teachers want to see you learn, grow and succeed, keep on looking. I had one person, one of my first student counselors, who was just awesome. Nicole was just superb. She handles only the Freshman people. Once you move to Sophomore, then you get the people who don't even really care. Josh was my next one and he couldn't even find time to call and see how things were going. I finally just told him to bug off and leave me alone, that if he couldn't be consistent with it then I would call him if I needed him. I'm just a few credits away from graduation then I am so done with them. That's my only reason for staying.