Middle Georgia State University Reviews

"I am an MGA alumni who started a graduate program recently. Please believe me when I say that you should not go to this university! Avoid at all costs! Even though my time as an undergrad was excellent, the 2 semesters that I have been a graduate student have been an awful nightmare. As others have mentioned, the financial aid office is absolutely atrocious and their extreme incompetence is why I will stop going here and start another masters program somewhere else. Every month, there is major issue after major issue with my financial aid that they could care less about helping me with. As someone else said, you will literally have to call and email them hundreds of times (no exaggeration). If you call, it is nearly impossible to speak to someone. Getting someone on the phone is very rare. When you need an answer about something, you will get a different answer from each different person you speak with every single time that you call about the same issue. Nobody is on the same page, ever. Nobody is knowledgeable about the financial aid process. Nobody reviews your account to see what is going on before they give you answers to your specific issue -- they just give you very vague or generalized answers. Nobody cares about your financial aid problem and nobody seems to understands how important financial aid is for full-time students that need financial aid to pay for tuition, books, technology, food, transportation, living expenses and everything in between. So, you will spend hours and hours everyday researching online about your financial aid situation to find out what needs to be done because the rude, incompetent people at the financial aid office could care less. They act like you are pestering them about something silly like free ice cream when financial aid is a very serious matter for most students. Worst of all, they do not tell you extremely important information that you need to know about your financial aid or give you the wrong information about something super important-- which can cause you to not get your award offer in a timely manner (which makes you miss out on your classes for the entire semester) or put you in financial distress. If they mess up and ruin your life as a result, they do not care at all. When they made a mistake and refused to help, I had to escalate my issue several times to higher ups just to get it resolved. If you fund your education with financial aid, the bottom line is that you should avoid this school entirely. Academically, the professors in my online masters program are great and very experienced in their field but the big problem I have is that they do not give lectures like every other university does. The professors pretty much just give you assignments and grade your work, that's it. So, you have to teach yourself everything and then still do all of the reading, assignments, tests, quizzes, papers, etc. Teaching yourself everything, instead of attending live lectures or watching pre-recorded lectures, makes getting your assignments done for the week take so much longer. I also do not like that the workload can be extremely overwhelming at times. For example, one professor told us that we would be dropped from our class if we couldn't complete 2 full weeks worth of assignments by the fourth day of class. Another professor kept giving us a whole entire months worth of assignments each week for 4 weeks in a row. The professor didn't condense the months worth of material for that week or only focus on the most important tasks. So, we had to read 3 or 4 very long chapters, do busy work for each chapter, quizzes for each chapter, a test, and a case study every week for 4 weeks straight. Having to complete such a high workload for that class caused to work on the coursework for 12+ hours, 7 days a week just to get the assignments in on time. This left me so exhausted that I could barely find the motivation to do assignments for the other course I was taking at the same time, By the time the semester ended, I was so burned out that it took me a month to feel better.Read Less"

"Only want to say that the people that work here are enormously LAZY, UNHELPFUL, AND RUDE! Forget trying to get help in financial aid, it is NOT going to happen. I have spent weeks and weeks calling to only be hung up on or given misinformation that caused more issues and had to start over. They are not trained and do not give out information to questions that are correct. You will get a hundred different answers. If your lucky you'll get a human on the phone, but your information is going to be down right wrong. I have done most research and googling to get my correct answers. Most of the time they pick up and place the phone down without saying " please hold". It's the worst experience ever dealing with the staff. What is sad is the President has also been email and we got no response on this matter, so its clear they just do NOT care. It's like fitting a square into a circle, and you're better off trying to get things fixed by asking employees at the local Taco Bell Drive Through ( you'd get better help) than deal with these inept morons!Read Less"

"it is a good, very very very affordable school. even if you are an out of state student the online classes are very much affordable. good if you are paying for school yourself. the admissions office however seems to misplace documents quite often tho :/"

"I would not recommend anyone get a business degree from here. It is a worthless degree. It helped me get a part time job at GameStop and that’s about it. Luckily I went to tech school before my degree and had something to fall back on. I am now going to another school again so I can change careers. I am not saying don’t go, just make sure you get a technical degree so you can be marketable. Something like nursing, engineering, or computers would have been way better."

"MGA is a great choice for a quality education at a fair price. I studied online and on the Macon campus, so I can't speak to the other campuses but Macon has a wonderful Student Center and all the staff seem very friendly and eager to help. The strongest asset this university has is its faculty, especially the IT faculty. Everyone is engaged and helps students do their best. They have a great internship placement program and tutoring facilities. The recently started a master's program in IT that sounds very compelling. I found a job in my career immediately after graduation. I couldn't be happier with the education I received at MGA (socially, Macon isn't a hotbed of activities, but Hotlanta is just up the interstate!)Read Less"

"The campus in Cochran is terrible. From the cafeteria to the help they offer for schooling. I am a business major and I cant even get help from a tutor for finance because they dont have anyone to help with that. The workers all over campus are lazy and do not care about their tasks. A large majority of them sit around on their cellphones the entire time. They claim to have Starbucks and Papa Johns on their campus when in reality neither one of them tastes like it. The cafeteria has the worst dinner hours and more then half of the time they will start putting the food up early. If your looking for cheap tutition with terrible amenities then look no further then Middle Georgia State.Read Less"

"The financial aid office is absolutely terrible. They aren't helpful at all. If you don't bring up information about loans, scholarships, or any type of aid, they will sit back and wait until it's time for you to graduate to tell you what needs to be paid. If you are due for a refund, make sure you stay on top of it because most applicants just get pushed to the side while they waste time."

"Middle Tennessee State University was a great school to attend for a bachelors degree. The instructors were very helpful and personable. Their curriculum was very up to date which was helpful in keeping us as students interested in our field of study."

"I study business administrations Bowen university Nigeria i came out with second class upper in 2006,and also mba in business at administration obafemi awolowo universityin nigeria.2016.my intention is to study online bad nursing programme at middle Georgia university"

"I had transferred from Georgia State University to Middle Georgia. I like the classes a lot better. The classes were smaller and I actually had a chance to ask my professor for help. Also I saw an improvement in my grades once I selected the right major. I would recommend this school."

"I received my degree from Middle Georgia State University and I got my bachelors degree in psychology. I think its very important to have a professor and student interaction. For my program, I believe the professor were very helpful and are willing to work with you if you ask them. The school is on the smaller scale which is a good thing to help you concentrate in your classes. The most students in a class is about 30 students. Overall I would recommend my school."

"Middle Georgia State University is an excellent school for the price. It's fast-growing, and the small class sizes are great for teacher-student interaction. It is not an easy school, you will feel prepared upon graduation. With newly offered Master's and five campuses, this school is on the rise."

"This degree and college have not only helped my career, but also helped launch it. As long as you work hard and engage in meaningful learning so that you are able to actually apply theory to practice, you will reap all the benefits of this program. If I could do it all over again, I would still choose this school and this program."

"Middle Georgia State University has a big program for Business and nursing degrees. The tuition is very cheap , and you get lots of opportunities in the classroom and outside of the classroom. There are lots of great teachers that will help you in anyway that they can. One of the biggest things that i really enjoy about this school is that there are never any classes on Friday, so you will anyways have a three day weekend. This three day weekend gives you time to do any homework that you may have. Also the teachers understand that their class isn't the only one that you have, so your generally given a week to complete homework.Read Less"

"I think my Alma Mater is the cheapest and most effective school for receiving a degree in the Logistics Field. The professors within this particular discipline care about the program's growth as well as the individuals in the program. It is not a popular field of study, and you will always get aa chance to network with other students and peers from other institutions. The most effective and memorable experience for me is/was the logistics convention that happens every year: Teachers (the professors at Middle GA included) from Clayton State and other universities work to put together an exclusive opportunity for the students: It is limited to those who pre-register and sign up. Several employers, prospective and those you never considered could be present and ready to give you insight, career advice, and job/internship opportunities.Read Less"