University of Arkansas Grantham

This is not the first school I recommend for several reasons. First, student advisory and finical aid advisory are a joke...they are VERY hard to get a hold of and NEVER know what is going on with your studies or the issues you have presented. The results are the same no matter if you email them or call them, which always results in your deadline or issue being missed or unresolved. FA makes the process difficult and longer than needs to be, They hold your money and refund money as if it is gold... Read More and it takes over 10 weeks to receive anything back into your account. As far as the classes go there are some that are a great and there are others that you could write ANYTHING and you would pass the class. As other have stated your graduation date being pushed back over and over was a huge problem as well. You may start off graduating in June and look up and now it December with no real reason why. I would think LONG and hard about attending this college.

First I would say find the job and employer you wish to work for, the ask HR what accreditdations are accepted. If you plan to wotk overseas, I do not reccommend. Reason being it is only nationally recongnized. Next student advisors are only there to monitor your attendance. I was VA (veterans) paid so requirements there means i have to log in so many times a week. That means Grantham will not get paid if i don't log in. So naturally they will call most urgent. When I finally recieved my degree my... Read More employer had to verify my degree for the job I was hired for. After many calls to Grantham University, they got tired and stopped trying. I called plenty of times myself. Moving on, I finished in June but did not recieve my diploma till Aug. no valid reason why. During my classwork one instructor gave me a C when all my assignments were at 98% to 100%. I did not understand that but the rest of my classes brought in a A or B. One instructor took one of my essay assignments personally and missed the entire content of the assignment and made me do it twice. Said it was plagerism, when I just made up some bull crap and sent it in. I was surprised that someone else managed to write the same bull crap before me and legalize it. Other papers I copied and pasted and recieved a A. So it was hit or miss. After a while I went to course hero or chegg and all answers were there. Thats when I noticed it didnt matter what I turned in just as long as I stayed active in attendance. Vererans Affairs paid out about 68k just be ause they had to, Grantham took it all and smiled. Now the degree I have sits in a brown folder, mainly because Im black and around my area of town they dont like smart black people. I have been on jobs requiring degrees and find out that many of the employees there dont have them and got hired for skin connections and who they know. I get hired for mechanic positions with my high school diploma paying 20.00hr and get offers for bachalor degree jobs paying 12.00hr. So whoever read this review, if you are military and need VA money every month, this wont work. The GI BILL pays like 536.00 for 9.00hr online, and about 1600.00 for 1.00hr actual classroom time. Grantham will not endorse you to attend another school for that one hour to recieve your full payout. Im a rather smart guy and only went to college to see how America treats vets with degrees. Well they dont really care about you. Most wont even ask you if you have a defree. This applied to me and maybe you different. I challenge any black male, prior military looking for a good job in Texas or most southern states to try to invalidate my review. Good luck guys and be forewarned check out the giant list of regionally accredited schools prior to submitting finanical aid or veteran benefits. Do your homework, and if you still choose Grantham and not plan to become an officer in the service... There is more space under my review and I look forward to reading yours.

If it wasn't for me not wanting to quit this time around I would have been withdrawn. This school is setting students up for failure. As long as they receive their money they don't care if you have the tools you need to succeed. I am still waiting for my financial aid to be process and I am in my second set of classes for the term with no aid to pay for my books and this is my last two weeks of class. But the school is paid so they don't give a damn. So unprofessional and I can't wait to transfer... Read More my credits if I can and move on from this disaster. Don't walk run from applying for this school.

I have found the classes to be great. Most professors are quick to respond and I feel I have learned quite a bit in the last year. I would have to agree with a previous comment on the student advisors. They are not helpful at all. All they do is check in on you to make sure you are staying active. If you ask them for any real help, they just tell you they can't help. On top of that, they continually push back the estimated graduation date. My graduation date was scheduled for the end of December... Read More 2015 and they just moved it to May 2016. I'm not sure I will be continuing if they cannot assure me that the date will not be pushed out any further. I do not understand how the graduation date could change for a current student. Very frustrated!!!

My dream was to obtain a senior management position in healthcare. My problem was that I didn't have the time in my schedule to attend a brick and mortar college. And finding a babysitter was always an issue. Grantham University helped me achieve that dream by helping me earn a Master of Healthcare Administration (MHA) degree. At first I was concerned because it was a 100% online format. But I decided to enroll and see if it was something for me. I was pleasantly surprised to find engaging and highly... Read More relevant courses that utilize current, proven healthcare and business administration models. Their courses were well laid out and challenging. I'm not going to tell you it was always easy, but if you apply yourself and keep up with your homework, it can be done. My favorite part was learning to assess the legal, regulatory and ethical challenges faced by the healthcare industry. This was very helpful in my real world position. My advice if you attend is to work closely with your student adviser and instructors. They will make sure you get the help you need to graduate. Grantham is a great school and I highly recommend them to all of my co-workers.

Having had a crash and burn experience at a state university I attended Grantham for the flexibility. The thing I liked most is the clear degree plan, they gave me a clear list of classes required to earn my degree, books and labs included with tuition. Study hard at your own pace, pass the test and earn college credit. Some of the classes were excellent and some of the classes were just average, but like any higher education you only get out of it what you are willing to put into it. Most of the... Read More problems I had had were of my own making, not meeting deadlines etc. Administrative support was always polite and professional. On the negative side a small number of classes require improvement. Overall if you meet the student responsibilities you can obtain a good education, understand it will be up to you.

As a former Submarine Sailor in the US Navy I appreciated that Grantham University took my SMART transcripts and allowed me to start as Junior! The fully online courses allowed me to continue working full time while taking my classes around my busy travel schedule. The 8 week courses were a challenge, but my advisors and instructors were always helpful when I needed them. Advice on course loading, helping me with my Veterans benefits, and shipping my books to whatever town I was working in at the... Read More time allowed me to get a degree in a field I love. I also managed to land a job in Project Management a few months before graduating. Thanks to Grantham University and the VA I have my undergraduates degree, a great job, and no student debt. I chose to return to Grantham to earn my Masters!

DO NOT ATTEND GRANTHAM! The administration as a whole are lazy, careless and not very helpful. My Student Advisor calls or e-mail me back when he's ready. My CS192-Programming Essentials teacher NEVER gets my e-mail, so I never get the help I need from her. They schedule classes wrong and they really don't care (IMO) if you succeed or not! Financial Aid is the WORST!! I'm 8 weeks in and they still haven't processed my FA. There are students that started classes a month before me still waiting and... Read More don't you think think about calling or e-mailing them, because you will be on hold for 30 minutes max and it hangs up on you. If you're lucky to speak with one they're rude or act as if you questions about your FA is some form of disrespect. There's ALWAYS a glitch in the FA system. They're cheap because it takes 2 years just to receive an Associate degree? The only time you can get an immediate response from anyone at Grantham is through their Facebook page! DO NOT ATTEND GRANTHAM!