University of Northern Colorado

The majority of classes in UNCO's MBA program are based around reading the provided textbook and answering questions provided directly from the publisher. Unfortunately, some of these assignments are very broken and wrong. For example, in the International Business course there are a set of video assignments where you watch a 5-10 minute clip and then answer questions on them. Multiple of these assignments had questions that were definitely geared towards another video rather than the one you would... Read More have just watched, so you were set up for issues. On top of this, a surprising number of classes are built around discussion board questions where you not only write your own response, but also need to respond to other students that have similar responses, so it becomes a game of parroting "I agree!" to enough people so you can get your grade and move on. Some of the professors are great and want to help you learn the materials (the MBA accounting professor in particular was very available), but others are definitely over the whole thing and would rather pretend you aren't there. Lecture videos, even poorly recorded ones that aren't legible, are recycled year-after-year with errors and all. One professor in particular gets very defensive if you bring up issues, so most students just stopped. Now that online MBA programs are more prevalent, I would recommend searching around for a program with more substance and value. This one is an exercise in frustration.

I started the online Masters program for SLP in Fall 2018. I was excited to be attending this school as the online program was so highly rated and allowed part-time students to work and attend school at the same time and use their jobs as clinical hours. It may have been a great program when it was run by different staff but now it is a disaster. It is poorly managed and the online students are not the program's priority and it shows. It's so poorly managed that every single one of my supervisors... Read More has said they will never take another online UNCO student ever again. Some professors were really great and I learned a lot in those select classes. But as for the other ones, they were lazy and provided content without actively trying to help students learn or assisting them when needed. Some professors were even downright hostile. They did the bare minimum and moved on. They simply don't care about their online students. Overall, the environment was not conducive to learning and I wish I had selected another program. I do not recommend this program to anyone and have advised my undergrad friends to stay far away.