National UniversityReviews of nu.edu

Unorganized program. Graduation was awful. I really Wish they had more heart in celebrating their graduates. We spend so much money and not even graduation was organized.

Since I have started, I have nothing but issues with the financial aid office and my loans. It is affecting other scholarship opportunities and disrupting me from finishing my degree. The lack of communication is unacceptable as well. Also, the math they are giving me is not adding up which makes me concerned.

DO NOT go to National if you want your California Teaching Credential. They will hold your Master's degree hostage until you pass the CSET and unlike other Online universities will not give you any other options to take other courses in place of the CSET. You just stay in this vicious cycle with no support and no care at all.

My National University online graduate experience as a student in the College of Letters and Sciences, Department of Psychology was negative. 1. The program degree path into which I enrolled was terminated and rolled into another program apparently due to leadership conflicts within the Department. 2. Conflict between due dates in the syllabus and the online classroom was a chronic problem which made the first week of the four-week classes a chaos of dialogue amongst students and instructors establishing accurate due dates, the outcome being a negative impact on course quality. 3. Instructor failure to issue a grade for an Independent Study class resulted in suspension while waiting for the instructor to respond to the University and correct the grade (this took approximately three months). National University at the time of my enrollment was a respected institution amongst my peers with good report from past students. In contrast, my experience has left me with a very poor opinion of the institution, its ethics, and leadership. I can only hope the issues I have identified above were unique to an unsettled moment in the University's history. Caveat emptor.

The online ABA program is awesome if you already have a solid base of knowledge and experience in the field. You’re basically on your own to learn the material and learning how to apply the principles of you don’t have experience. But if you have experience and can teach yourself than it’s cheap and the classes aren’t hard.