"I believe the classes are so expensive! They holding my transcripts where I cannot transfer to a university in my state to save money. My GPA is great with this university, so it had some good out of this situation. I would recommend but tell the students to make sure they have enough to pay for their classes."

Anon

Reviewed: 1/19/2023
Degree: Psychology
Graduation Year: 2024

"I am a student at GCU earning my Masters of Science in Psychology. Grand Canyon University has been a wonderful experience for me, the staff have been great, I have wonderful counselors, and been provided with plenty of resources to bring me success for my graduate program. From transitioning from undergrad to grad school, its everything I expected it to be. It is challenging, you need to have time management skills, devoted time to coursework, participate!!, and keep up with the work. I have heard so many people complain about Grand Canyon University, it is understandable if money is a factor to the problem. But, in my experience finance is not an issue and I have no complaints about how the online graduate program is structured and taught. Do not apply if you don't have the work ethic, the time management skills, research skills, and digital experience. I always believed that graduate education is independent, if you lack the skills to work and study independently, higher education may not be for you. It's annoying to hear people complain about GCU not being lenient with grading, or that the workload is too much. If you are trying to earn a Graduate degree, buckle up, it takes a lot to be a graduate student but only so many will complete it and walk across the stage. I am grateful that GCU took me in, and I have been giving my all to be successful in my courses. Shout out to my counselors who have been so useful and supportive of my journey."

Maribel Flavel

Reviewed: 1/13/2023
Degree: Psychology
Graduation Year: 2025

"I’m so frustrated with the terrible communication I’ve been receiving at this school. They offer a student counselor who helps you with everything, but mines incredibly bad at communication. I had to ask him to enroll me in my next classes because he hadn’t yet. I’m also switching my major and have asked him several times to do so, to which he responded that I needed to wait, which I did. Well, I’m finally starting my new set of classes and he enrolled me in the wrong classes and again did not change my major. I emailed him this morning to confirm that they would finally get me in a class that starts in 3 days and he told me they would. Now they’re off for 3 days and I have to wait for them to put me in the correct class. We’ll see if this messes with my schedule. I’m so frustrated. I do not recommend this school."

Ben Matthews

Reviewed: 1/8/2023
Degree: Secondary Education
Graduation Year: 2019

"I enrolled in Grand Canyon Universities Online graduate program for the Masters in Education, Secondary Education degree. I was able to double up on classes and finish the program earlier than most. My grade point average was 3.84 (GCU uses the 4.000 grading scale). Each course was 4 to 6 weeks long and had requirements for field work. Overall, my counselors and the staff of GCU always had open lines of communication, the grading was rigorous but it enhanced the academic experience by expecting more from its students, and its cost of tuition and enrollment was fair compared to other institutions. If you are looking for a good and accredited graduate degree you should definitely consider Grand Canyon University."

Cassandra

Reviewed: 1/1/2023
Degree: RN to BSN
Graduation Year: 2023

"I am currently in my last BSN course at GCU and I have not had one problem with tuition, customer service, grading times, instructor responsiveness, etc. I don't particularly like online group assignments or spreading out response posts throughout the week but that's to be expected with an online learning platform. I've been unclear instructions about assignments and instructors usually get back to me within a few hours, grades are in no longer than a week after the assignment is due and my counsellors have all been super responsive and helpful. I just saw a lot of bad reviews on here and I don't quite understand why people are having different experiences than me but I felt the need to share mine. I honestly wish GCU offered a Psych NP program so I could just stay with them."

Selisam

Reviewed: 12/20/2022
Degree:
Graduation Year: 2022

"Overall, this school was fine. There were 2 things that really bothered me. The first, one professor never graded things on time and didn't know how to log the practicum hours. For this class, I dropped the ball and didn't log my hours (the instruction was ambivalent for how to log them, but I had the hours completed). For those hours, it took over 2 months of fighting with the field practicum counselor to get the hours logged. All he told me was that I had to reach out to the professor. This professor had no idea and ended up ignoring all of my emails asking for help. Then the counselor still couldn't help me. I ended up having to solve the problem myself (which ended up being simple and the counselor couldn't tell me how to do it). I would ask him for help, then follow his advice and ask the teacher. When she stopped replying to me, I went back to the counselor who told me to work with the teacher. When I told him the teacher wasn't responding he had no actual way to help me except for a PowerPoint that had a broken link. He never helped me after that and I was able to figure it out, luckily. But it was such a headache over nothing!!"

Christopher Jordan

Reviewed: 12/16/2022
Degree: Sociology
Graduation Year: 2024

"Wow! This is my second time writing a review on GCU. I felt my first review may have been a little unfair to them. Until I read other reviews and saw that they were treated exactly the same as I was. I won’t make this a long review. I’ll make it short and honest. If you are an online student such as I was, keep looking. If you are military in anyway thinking you’ll get a break, forget about it. If you think they’re a Christian school with morals and Christian ethics, it won’t take much to see otherwise. The bottom line, it’s money for them. They’ll take your money, and could care less about your degree. Please keep looking past GCU. I think I could write a book about how bad they treated me. They have all these commercials about going there…. I warn you- be very afraid. You’ll probably come up short."

Liz

Reviewed: 12/14/2022
Degree: Nursing
Graduation Year: 2024

"The ABSN program is very poorly managed with little support, they advertise they have an nclex pass rate of a 100% but beware! They choose not to disclose their attrition rate (about 1/2 of student cohort on average fail out whether that be entirely failing out or repeating a semester; only get one chance). Many professors are not qualified to teach, very lazy at times especially when doing “prepared” lectures. Nothing prepared to go over, just discussion which often times is side tracked. They are not understanding whatsoever but will protect their own faculty/professors/counselors at all costs no matter the offense. However, if we make a mistake, they don’t care what you have to say, as we are replaceable to them. Be prepared to teach yourself everything, the exams are so taxing sometimes feeling very Ill prepared during the exam even if you’ve read the entire book, done recorded lectures, and or went over PowerPoint slides. Tutoring sessions, most explore mores do not prepare you for the exam entirely depends on the professor. I personally for my second semester attended one lecture for pysch due to the incompetence of the professor. Be aware and think twice before you sign up! I know the application is easy but understand the potentiality of things and the stress."

Emily

Reviewed: 12/7/2022
Degree: Education
Graduation Year: 2025

"I took one class here and I am transferring. I am a very busy student and I was focused on getting my BA and teaching certification online, not easy to find. I had a great time with my advisor, finding the best path for me. He was great with communication and found me the fastest way to get what I needed out of my education. The first class is a mandatory university class, pointless. The second class, also mandatory, Christian Worldview. No one everrrrr said this was a Christian school until I saw this class and had been in contact for months, working on paperwork and choosing a major. The class is horrific. It is massively offensive to all non-christians and the professor has the audacity to say we should not judge each other. This place is a joke that is dead set on getting you right where they want you and then making some strange attempt at conversion. If you don't love Jesus, steer clear."

Reviewed: 12/4/2022
Degree: Liberal Studies
Graduation Year: 2022

"Attending this college was a complete mistake. And it is one of the worse colleges I've experienced as an online student. This college is "money hungry". Also, my student service counselor told me that my official transcripts and diploma would cost me $150.00, I'm thinking like what. When I attended my other college, I never had to pay $150.00 for no official transcripts or diploma. I've should've had did more research on this college before applying. I'm having a lot of bumps in the road with GCU, and I'm an online student. When I explain to my instructors about me being ill last month, they haven't reply back to me, and didn't seem to care if I was ill. Therefore, my instructors were only worrying about me handing in my assignments on time. When I discussed to my instructor based on children and teens in African American culture are facing mental health, my instructor was very nasty about my DQ statement. Also, I had different student services counselors without being noticed. No phone call or email. It takes three weeks for my instructors to grade my assignments. Also, it takes a month for my student service counselor to get back to me. The instructors aren't helpful or supportive whatsoever, if I have an issue about an instructor they will win, and won't be on my side if a situation goes down. Also, most of the instructors I've had will doubt my intelligences if I wasn't nothing. This University is way too problematic, the student service counselors are disorganized, rude, and disrespectful. I've never experienced anything like that when I was attending another college in my city. PLEASE DO NOT ATTEND THIS UNIVERSITY. SAVE YOUR MONEY AND ATTEND A TRAINING PROGRAM."

Brooke

Reviewed: 12/1/2022
Degree: Criminal Justice
Graduation Year: 2024

"I’m a student right now and if I didn’t only have a year and a half left I would have transferred. They don’t care about the students they care about money. Things are always broken, a mess, or you have to wait over 45 minutes in line in order to eat because they don’t have an actual dining center. Those who are supposed to help you don’t and public security tickets you whenever they want and very happily. My degree programs professors I have lived but some of the electives I have had horrible teachers. The living situation wherever you are is a mess and an absolute headache and when you want to bring up a problem they just send you to another and another until nobody can help you and all is lost. Don’t go here they have too many students for their capacity."

Disgruntled Veteran

Reviewed: 10/28/2022
Degree: Christian Studies
Graduation Year: 2023

"At first enrollment seemed to good to be true. They have very aggressive enrollment counselors. The online class forums are user friendly. The majority of professors did not seem Christ centered. One of the professors I had was passive aggressive. I disenrolled due to a family emergency. They reenrolled me without notifying me and now want me to pay for classes they enrolled me in without my consent. They're sending it to collections if I don't pay for their mistake. They never checked in on my family with our long term emergency situation they only wanted their money. Supposed christian university. I would not send your kids here if you want conservative Christian values to remain intact. They display neither in word or deeds."

Reviewed: 10/27/2022
Degree: Social Work
Graduation Year: 2022

"This school is to much, like it is no support at all. And not very helpful, this is just a waste of time. I don’t wanna dropped out, because if I do that then I would have to pay back the school. This school I wouldn’t recommend to anyone. I am going to speak my mind if you don’t like what I say then that’s your problem not mines. I am trying my best in this school, yet they don’t appreciate nothing at all. Please don’t waste ya’ll time here. Go to a community college. College is not for everyone, they don’t care about if your sick our even your mental health issues, because mental health issues is serious."

Reviewed: 10/26/2022
Degree: DNP
Graduation Year: 2022

"GCU is the worse school I have ever attended. All they care about is Money. There are not standard rules and each professor makes their own rule. They are rude and unprofessional. I would never recommend this school to anyone. Do not waste your money or time with GCU"

Disappointed parent

Reviewed: 10/24/2022
Degree: Nursing
Graduation Year: 2025

"I felt GCU gets you in the door and not many things they told us were actually accurate. My daughers class size we ridiculous. 200 in 1 of them. They sold us on small class size. Not true. No one advised us of this ahead of time. $400 fee for her leaving at end of semester. No dinning dollars refund so we are out at least 1k. Student got shot from stray bullet. Roommate has boyfriend in her actual room all the time and no one does anything. My daughter would just go to someone else's room. I'm extremely disappointed in the school. Be aware of everything they tell you. If it sounds to good to be true, it probably isn't."

Reviewed: 10/10/2022
Degree: Liberal Studies
Graduation Year: 2022

"I started with GCU 4 in a half years ago.I had the best student counselors. Even though they changed counselors every 6 months, I had the best. I had a couple of teachers that pushed me to succeed to the best of my ability. The counselor I have now is horrible and never can be reached. She even hung up on me and stopped calling me. I will NEVER recommend a zoo animal to be under counseling under her. I was ready to give up on everything and she said to me,”What your going to do about it?”. I had to go to my professor for mental guidance. What I’m saying is one bad apple like that student counselor will make the whole apple pie bitter."

Military

Reviewed: 10/5/2022
Degree: Military Science
Graduation Year: 2026

"All GCU care about is money that's all they want. They claim to be military friendly but charge you completely if course is not dropped before start date. And they don't care as they try to get Tuition Assistance money and then charge you the difference the military didn't cover. Military personal always have to change and drop classes as things revolve around a high unit tempos. I had a death in the family and had to drop a course shortly after the class starting. Now they want to send to bill to collections to get their money for an online course i wasn't able to participate cause the loss of a family member. DO NOT ATTEND THIS SCHOOL!!! ESPECIALLY IF YOU'RE MILITARY! BE WARNED!!!"

A.B.

Reviewed: 10/1/2022
Degree: Accelerated BSN
Graduation Year: 2022

"Go somewhere else. The instructors are okay, the leadership (e.g. assistant dean, program director) is terrible. Horribly disorganized, rude and disrespectful to students. They don't care about your wellbeing, they only care about getting your money. I did well in the program (ABSN) but it came at a great physical and mental cost. I'd never recommend this program."

Kim Wootson-Harris

Reviewed: 9/30/2022
Degree: Elementary Education
Graduation Year: 2021

"I am grateful that I completed my Education, however, I was not able to have my transcript, because of a $300.00 balance. I pleaded with my student counselor but I was not successful. How about bending the rules for students that owe less than $500.00? Flordia Education allows new teachers to apply for a temporary certification, I would have gotten a teaching job, but since GCU is money hungry for $300, I had to wait to clear my balance. Then the calls were a pain, GCU wants to help further your education after graduation but then the last words from my student counselor were, how can I help you clear your balance? I did request my transcript but now I have to wait 90 days for eligibility and now I'm doing substitute teaching and sleeping on my friend's couch.THANKS A LOT GCU"

Talley, Lamar

Reviewed: 9/28/2022
Degree: Healthcare Administration
Graduation Year: 2023

"So I'm seeing a lot of low/bad reviews for this school. I wish I had seen these before I started my program here. I also scored GCU very low due to the curriculum and preparation for the workforce. Yes, I am an online student however, I do expect the curriculum to be up to date and the professors to be knowledgable of the study material. I was told by my last professor, who holds a doctorate, that he was unsure of the course material only to find out the material he was using was outdated and used during other terms. The final course before graduation is not conducive to the student who may work 40+ hours a week and then have to add 10+ hours just to get 150 hours of practicum time and complete a project. My preceptor has no idea what to do with me as I am sitting here not able to do anything due to lack of access to the hospital's system, due to security reasons. My peers are stressing because there is practicum work to be completed on top of classroom tasks. All courses except for the last course is 8 weeks long, then we jump to a 16 week course and we still feel as though we are not learning anything that will put us in the best position for the workforce. I pray my precasting site sees I am diligent enough to hire me at the end of this mess, otherwise I'm genuinely concerned. Hope this helps."