Beware this university - it is not up to the standards of a regular university, and I felt it behaved like a degree mill. Tuition is extremely high, but the experience is beyond low. Rude, authoritarian staff and faculty. In-person campus experience is terrible. When checking into my dorm for the mandatory 2-week residency, I was informed in a matter-of-fact way by staff that internet access (the most BASIC requirement of a university that requires students to stay on campus for a period of time) typically does not work in many places on campus! This was true, as many students in my cohort could not access internet in their dorm rooms; we had trouble accessing internet in student lounges where we met to do group work, and even in our classroom we couldn't download academic documents! Students were literally having to use their cell phones and mobile access to download documents we were assigned to read and discuss in class, and shared them with one another via text message! Professors and instructors just clam up and act like this these instances are normal.
The structure is dogmatic, uncaring, and toxic. The best treatment I received was BEFORE I signed up, alot of time and effort with phone calls and Zoom meetings went into encouraging me to take the program. After the program started, I found it to be was night and day. Strong academic performers dropped out of our program because of the poor content and structure, lack of true academic rigour, and toxic environment. Classes were like professional development workshops rather than university courses, and I found them to be a waste of time. Students respond to the pressure cooker environment by turning on one another in group work (saw this multiple times during my residency), which is sad, as that is not what an academic experience should be like.
Faculty seems overloaded, scrambling to keep up, and they just repeat the rhetoric. With such high tuition, I question where resources are being allocated (profits vs redirecting them into the institution?) as they don't even bother to provide proper internet access (longstanding issue as per the staff). It appears much of their money goes into the beauty of grounds, marketing, and scrubbing the internet of negative reviews. When asked for my opinion about this school, I am forced to honestly tell people to avoid it.
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