Thomas Edison State University

I don't usually bother with writing reviews but this school deserves it. I read some bad reviews on here and honestly, it's people complaining about how hard it is, fees and other nonsense that show's lack of independence and basic understanding of policies. First ofo, there's no school (after tons of research) let you transfer as much credits like TESU! I can't express enough how helpful this was! Yes you are very independent in the course but seriously what do you expect from an ONLINE college.... Read More If I had problems understanding something I would ask my professors and they always tried their best to explain. If I got a unsatisfactory grade (for me a 'B'), I would ask them to explain the reason and how I could improve...this is what you have to do to be successful. Again, people complained about course work being too much but seriously, you have the luxury to sit at home, work, on the go, from your phone EVERYDAY and complete your work! What more do you want? The absolute best part is that there is no certain order to complete your course and there usually only 3 months long which equal to 3-4 semesters taking in ONE year! Oppose to a tradition school that only have 2. So I get to speed up my graduation (especially if you can take 15 credits each semester.) Overall, this is a great school despite the lazy people that complain about normal and expected things. I am actually applying to their Master degree program because of such flexibility and speed that I will never get at another university. If anyone is interested in their MBA programs, they are ACBSP accreditation! Which the 1 out of 2 highest accreditation (usually Ivy league schools maintain this), and looks fantastic if you want to work for corporate giants or wall st. I'm actually shock that they have this type of accreditation and still would of attend if they had a basic accreditation because again, their school fits my lifestyle and goals. I recommend!!!!

My experience with Thomas Edison State University was very positive. I already had a BA from a traditional college but wanted a Masters to make myself more marketable. A co-worker recommended TESU so I signed up and found the classes excellent. I enjoyed the fact that most of the course work was self-paced from textbooks, lectures and a lot of internet research. I found that the more effort I put into the classes the more benefit I received. TESU was the best alternative for someone who wants a degree... Read More but is unable to attend classes at a traditional university.

This school is a total rip off. They will charge "fees" for every little thing. I was hit with a $150 "late" fee for signing up for a class beyond the registration period, which mind you is only 4 days long. I have spoken to every one possible and they won't budge on it. I could see if maybe I signed up for the class after it already started. Getting charged a late fee a few weeks before the class starts is absurd. They don't mention the "late" fee when you are siting up "late" either, they just... Read More hit you with it and assume you can afford to pay it. Horrible ethics in this school. Do yourself a favor and somewhere else!

I reviewed many of the online programs and chose Thomas Edison State University. The acceptance of transfer credits and Professional Training/Licensure was an easy way to begin classes. I work at a commercial Nuclear Power plant and work a 12 hour swing shift. This allowed plenty of time to complete the assignments and prepare for the exams. The exams seemed rather difficult, but the other class assignments would aide in maintaining a passing grade. The test are not designed by TESU or it's mentors.... Read More I used transfer credits and TCEP (clep) to complete my program. I began classes in August of 2016 and completed the program in July of 2017 with a GPA of 3.465. Formal graduation was not until September of 2017. I completed 48 credit hours in 11 months. It was a heavy load averaging 3-4 classes every 12 weeks. It is a fast paced, self-motivating program. If you can not dedicate the time and effort to the program, you may not be successful. Thomas Edison State University allowed me to advance my career in the Professional Nuclear Power World with my degree. It was a wonderful and life-changing experience. The office staff and mentors were extremely helpful and forthcoming with information and critiques. There are a great deal of awesome mentors that allow the classes to be interesting and woth the time to study and to be successful. Just like most universities, there are a few bad apples in the bunch. Don't let a bad forum posting make you change your mind. Read the mentor reviews prior to registering for the classes.

I already had a degree in Engineering, but from many years ago, and liked the self-directed / guided study approach which Thomas Edison takes and their willingness to apply so many of my credits towards a second degree in Computer Science. If you are self-disciplined and willing to manage your time, you can take 2-3 courses in the Comp Sci area of study and do quite well. I am very happy so far and would recommend (I do still have 2 classes to go). The only thing I would prefer is more options for... Read More GS rather than OL ( the former has more homework but no need to post on forums and interact with other students as in OL - which is a time waster for me).

I didn't learn very much from Thomas Edison since most of the courses for my major were transferred from a community college. This really disappointed me since I felt that community college classes fall short of providing the level of study to award a Bachelor degree. The rest of the classes I took were gen ed and math which didn't help me much. I felt that most mentors didn't really participate in the course besides assigning homework and grading tests. You're pretty much left on your own to deal... Read More with a textbook that may or may not be enough to learn the material. Not having feed back was a big issue. You never knew how well or poorly you were doing until it was too late. Unfortunately I found out after graduating that most prospective employers didn't value the degree as much as going to a school and attending classes in person. I would avoid technology degrees and if you still choose to make sure you immediately try to get accepted into a graduate program where you can attend in person.

This is the only University I have gone to so I do not have another point of reference to compare TESU. However, my experience the past 4 years at this school has been a good one. I feel the mentors were fair and I was allotted more than enough time to meet the weekly assignments. Twelve week semesters here are longer than most online schools. Self discipline is definitely required though. I averaged two classes a semester (sometimes one class, sometimes three) while working full time (US Navy) and... Read More had no issues meeting deadlines. The academic advisors were also very accommodating as well as I changed my major several times and swapped classes in and out of my academic evaluation based on my interests without any problems at all. I would certainly recommend this school (In fact, I am trying to convince my girlfriend to go here). TESU is regionally accredited and more importantly (to me) they do not advertise themselves on cheap billboards or bus stop benches like cheap degree mill schools do. I earned my associates and my Bachelors here. I'm undecided whether I want to go for my MBA here. Because this school just applied to receive AACSB accreditation I'm definitely considering it! Just my two cents, hope it helps.

Coming from a small town in Southern Illinois I didn't know what I was getting myself into when I signed to play volleyball at St. Thomas University in Miami, Florida. I had heard stories about Miami, yet I didn't know what to expect. I was afraid I wouldn't fit in. Nonetheless, I packed up my things and moved 1000+ miles away from home. I was immediately welcomed with opened arms by not only my volleyball teammates but the St. Thomas staff. I no longer had any worries of being homesick. I was given... Read More a tour of the school and I was taken to meet my professors. I felt very welcomed and I looked forward to the classes they explained I would be in for the next four years. After excelling in classes thanks to my professors and fantastic advisors, I can proudly say I am graduating with my Bachelor's Degree in Criminal Justice in only a short 3 years. I loved my experience as an undergrad so much that I decided to stay at St. Thomas and pursue my Master's Degree. I will be graduating in May and shortly after beginning the road to my Master's Degree. St. Thomas University made my college experience an unforgettable one and I couldn't be any more gracious.

Going to Thomas Edison State was the best decision that I could have made to complete my bachelor's degree at this point in my life. As a veteran of the Marine Corps and Navy, I had quite a few credits from training that would transfer in with no problem. I can honestly say that Thomas Edison is not for everyone. As a person who loves the online learning process and has a lot of experience from taking MOOCS, this format was a dream come true. Having this experience gave me the skills to be a self-motivated... Read More learner. Saying that, my mentors were all great and motivated us all with inspirational messages and very detailed critiques of our written assignments. If I had a question, I would typically get a response within a few hours. Not only were they available via email, every one of them posted their number with available times to contact them; I never felt alone or left to "figure it out on my own or else fail." It was a lot of work, essays almost every week, however using sites like degreeforum.com gave me the community I needed to stay motivated. Having thousands of people going through the same process as me who were also openly giving advice on how to be successful in every class was a huge plus. Because of them I used the PLA option, CLEP tests, and even Aleks and Saylor courses to graduate within 11 months with my bachelor's. I had no life, but those of us who are using VA benefits know that we have a time limit on our educational benefits. Graduating in 11 months allowed me to use the rest of my benefits from the VA to pay for graduate school at a California State University Master's degree program that I start in the fall. By the way, from reading the forums I understand that the large amounts of writing required from Thomas Edison State more than adequately prepares its graduates for Masters and Phd level programs. Again, the time commitment is huge, but doable if you keep at it and create a study schedule. Being that the courses are open from the beginning of the semester, I would do the work a few weeks in advance to give myself vacation or family time. This also motivated me because of grades being updated in realtime. This school is a godsend to computer savvy mellinials, military personnel or civilians who don't have the luxury of keeping a steady schedule, and anyone who travels on a regular basis. Before I forget, the staff was extremely helpful! Never did I send an email or call and not get a relevant reply. Typically, I would research the forums and the website to get an idea of what was possible before calling the school. To bring this review to a close, the education was great, the test out and PLA and ACE credit acceptance brought the price down exponentially, and the ability to work at my own pace allowed me to work at night and on weekends to graduate in 11 months and enter a great graduate degree program. I highly recommend Thomas Edison State University and am proud to be a graduate.

I am very surprised where did these positive reviews came from? Avoid this school if you can. There are many other schools that are very pleased to help and work with you, but not this one.Plus others accept free application and tuition is cheaper than this. You are on your own. If you decided to go here, then Let me tell you my experience : 1.Departments don't really solve your issues if you complain they gang up against you sort of thing. 2.Trust me, they will find million reasons about not accepting... Read More your transfer courses. They are picky. Do not expect magic and graduating conveniently and in a short time! 3. Courses are very hard. There are tons of papers each week. So you need to expect typing nuisance stuff every week. If you miss exam or midterm then you fail your course, because 25 % for midterm and 30% for final. 3.

To preface, let me get something off of my chest about some of the positive reviews of this school: why the condescension? (for example, "this is a school for grown-ups, go back to community college if you need the hand-holding.") How ironically immature of anyone who uses that language. That said, I will try to keep this review helpful. I found TESU was not for me for these reasons: -It's a catch-22. Yes, TESU is affordable and potentially fast for degree completion, but the coursework is self-guided,... Read More sometimes poorly coordinated, and condensed into 12 weeks. This makes for stressful amounts of work, even if the material is easy. Trust me on this one. Can one realistically perform well at a mid-level or moderately-stressful job AND maintain a TESU course load that allows one to finish in one year or less, with great grades and valuable rapport with mentors? Not unless you are indefatigable. You will miss more sleep than you would as a traditional undergraduate. Therefore, unless you have no more than 21 credits remaining (that's 2 courses per session, max, and that will keep you very busy), expect to buy a subsequent year here. -I don't have extensive work experience in a specialized career area to which I could apply my self-guided learning. Many courses at TESU assume most of their students are already well-established in a recognized field, so you'll have an edge if you have that. Also, make sure you know people in "the real world" and interact with them (at a job, etc.) if you attend TESU, because assignments regularly require you to reach out to the general public or other professionals (luckily, that wasn't a problem for me). -I am not a good standardized test-taker, regardless of hours spent studying. For those like me in this regard, prepare to receive grades that don't reflect your general level of intelligence. It can be frustrating for perfectionists. Most exams also require the highest level imaginable of memorization, seeing how they can cover literally anything found in a textbook of several hundred pages. -In every class, I came across multiple tedious assignments that just had no relevance to the real world and/or to a payoff in the overall course grade--much more so than I did at traditional university. It felt like a terrible, sometimes heartbreaking waste of time whenever I encountered those. These are not complaints, nor do these facts make me a weak, undisciplined, or immature person. Note that I selected "Yes", I would recommend this school. I would recommend it to those students with opposite circumstances of the above. However, I cannot pontificate about TESU from a positive perspective, because the school is simply not for me. If you think you can relate to me as a student type, I urge you to save your money and financial aid for a school at which you can really excel! TL;DR: You can finish fast, but you cannot finish FAST. You'll waste thousands of dollars if you try.

If you have a lot of credits from other institutions and you don't want to take the 60 credits most universities require you to take then TESU may be a viable option. Go elsewhere if you are just starting off. TESU is not flexible by any stretch of the imagination. If you're late on a discussion post you get a zero, which has a profound impact on your final grade. You can go on their website and look at a class syllabus, which I would recommend, because TESU is big on high stakes testing. Meaning... Read More that 50% of your final grade comes from your mid-term and final exam. Like others have posted, TESU lacks study guides in a lot of classes and the classes that do have them state that you are not guaranteed a passing grade by studying it. It actually says on the bottom of the study guide that you may not pass by knowing all the information on the study guide. I don't know why TESU claims that they are flexible. You sign up for a class, they have due dates which must be met, and that's it; there is no flexibility. Per credit hour is expensive for out-of-state tuition, which is everyone living outside of NJ. In fact, Purdue University is more affordable. And who is TESU? No employer knows who they are.

I obtained my Master's in Nursing Education from Thomas Edison. I already have over 25 years of Nursing experience under my belt. The school's own curriculum guidelines and syllabus expectations did not always match up with what was taught about Nursing Education guidelines. Some mentors were fair, some would change the requirements each week and the School of Nursing supported the mentors! Thomas Edison advertises as being a school geared towards the working family member, with flexible schedules.... Read More This is not the case. Many of the required readings are outdated and are difficult to find as a result. The school requests end of semester evaluations yet makes no changes based upon the critiques given. At a Master's level, I would think faculty would hold themselves to a much higher expectation than what I experienced here. Many of the students were so stressed trying to complete the program that personal, financial, social, emotional, and physical health was affected. Indeed I did learn from the program, but the expectations were unrealistic with the time frames given. I would recommend that one highly consider other options when looking into a Master's of Nursing Program. I also know a few students who are currently in the DNP program and are very unhappy as well. They have said the requirements change for papers the week that they are due and assignments are graded critically. I was told that one of the students already dropped out and only 13 remain. There are too many options out there, spend your time and money wisely. Education is a two way street, the school needs students and the students need the school.