"The majority of negative reviews I've been reading through seem to gravitate towards the Ph.D programs offered, and not necessarily the Bachelor Master's level course work and professors. It is a fallacy of generalization to smear an entire college simply because "one" of their programs and procedures is below average or even "poor" compared to others. For those of the more virtuous, circumspect, and academic minded seeking a review that takes into account one's experience in its entirety, this is the review for you. As millions have stated before, regardless of what subject you end up choosing, IT IS WHAT YOU PUT INTO IT that eventuates into the experience and caliber of student and future employee you are. As a Social Work major, I found that the resources, books, online content, and access to the virtual library are some of the most relevant, categorized, and scholarly one can find anywhere and the course work and expectations are inescapably clear from day one. The giant swing and a miss that most students seem to be griping about it the "lack of interaction". Honestly, if you entered into an online school thinking that your teacher has enough spare time to spend hours on Zoom or Teams with you per day to teach you the course work, you are gravely misunderstanding the point of online college. I've never had a professor blow me off completely or fail to respond. I've never had a deficit or absence of resources to complete any assignment. I've never seen the timelines and deadlines for projects as unfair, daunting, unfairly graded, or demanding to a point of cruelty. The point being, the students (myself included) who take the time access, engage with, internalize, and drive themself to victory are not the ones you'll find in the review section raging and fuming and spewing their diatribes left and right. At even a moderate pace, Walden University is entirely doable for him or her who will try, just like any other accredited institution. Employers DO NOT CARE that your degree came from an online school of disputatious repute as long as it was accredited and followed state guidelines for awarding your degree. We live in a world where, save for the doctors/lawyers/elite business folks, your college of choosing means nothing as long as your actual finished products in the work place effectively demonstrate your competency....and competency only comes through personal application and practice on your part....online college is not meant to hold your hand through life and convince your interviewer you are fit for the task. That is your job. If there is one complaint that I can certifiably claim makes Walden weak, but is now near ubiquitous with online schools, it is that the usage of AI to do coursework is absurdly rampant to the point I've pointed it out to professors in the past and even showed them how to scan for plagiarism. At the end of the day, if you used Perplexity, Meta, ChatGPT, Claude, AI Writer to get through college, you'll have to keep doing that the remainder of your life to keep up the guise. You will be a lie, and live a lie. It is what you put into it, not the school's reputation, not the uncaught cheating, but what you personally invest into your futre. For those reasons, seen from the view of someone who archived the knowledge given deeply and made use of nearly every resource the school had to offer, Walden University will fit the bill for most degrees. I will also agree though their Ph.D program needs extreme face lifts, modifications, and changes of staff if it wants to exist into the future. The scathing commentary is far too numerous, uniform, and idiosyncratically written to be AI created or coincidental."

Amanda

Reviewed: 7/7/2020
Degree: Social Work
Graduation Year: 2023

"I would like to say that I love this school but its horrible. You teach yourself and the professors are not nice and hardly help you. They are more worried about apa fomatting,citing and referencing than teaching you anything. I was in the hospital due to an emergency and my professor said that did not matter I still had to return my work on time. I got a zero average c. The professor do what they want, some doc points for late papers some dont. Student advisors are hard to reach,not much help there. If I could do it all over again. I would find a different school. The apa writing they expect wouldn't be so bad if every professor didnt want something different and everything didnt have to be written in apa format. You have 1 or 2 discussions,1 or 2 assignments, research and 2 to 3 people in your class you have to respond to all in apa format. It's hard to learn anything. Pick a school that cares about their students education."

Run Away

Reviewed: 9/23/2019
Degree: Social Work
Graduation Year: 2018

"If you want to deal with a lot of people who don't care about you or you success then this is the school for you. They have no compassion and only care about your money. They feed you pretty words and empty promises to get you to sign up, but one you don't you learn the truth. I am a hard worker and was ready to give it my all, but had some issues with some papers with financial aid. I kept having to resend items in and by the time they final approved of the papers a hold was already placed on my account. I couldn't sign up for classes to make me a full time student so I go't the minimum amount of financial aid and missed being able to sign up for more classes. I understand they want their money and they got it but I got screwed out of being able to take more classes. The people in the financial aid office were noting but rude and uncaring. The papers wasn't even my fault the notary had gotten a smudge of pen on the piece of paper and didn't initial it, so I had to go in and re do everything. If you want a school that is convenient and caring go somewhere else because this one is neither of those things."

Mislead and Mad

Reviewed: 9/20/2019
Degree: Social Work
Graduation Year: 2020

"I recently enrolled in Walden, when doing research I was told by someone from the school that I would be considered a full time student if I took two six-week classes per term. Later (after I was enrolled) I found out that this is the case for the school but not for financial aid. With the grant I am getting I need to be full time (12 credits) which I was lead to believe I would be, but I am not. Being full time is also important because I am receiving VA benefits that if I am not full time I won't get much founding. When I was on the phone with someone from financial aid at walden she was nothing but rode, wasn't helpful at all, and I kept having to explain what I was talking about because she wasn't really paying attention to me. Also for the first class I was required to take a useless class. it basically was "this is what an online class is" I already have an associates degree (which I took a lot of online classes to receive it) so it has been a waste of time and money (I don't even think I need it for my degree since I have all of my electives done). If I could go back I would pick a different school because this school is misleading and not what I was expecting. I was told that I would have all these great resources and help, but I get left on hold forever. I'm sure there are good online schools out there this one is just no one of them."

Peggy Sue

Reviewed: 8/4/2018
Degree: Social Work
Graduation Year: 2018

"I started at Walden because the ideas they are promoting are important to me. Social change and activism is something I work towards on a daily basis. So, as far as the concept, Walden has a great foundation. However, the classes and platform are terrible. The website and classroom crash frequently and are hard to load because they tried to make them too fancy and pretty. Their set up is hard to follow and navigate. Sometimes I gave up on trying to do school work because the webpage wouldn't load. Next, each class seems to be the same thing but with different "learning material". The material is just some links or quotes from this or that. There is no real substance to any of the classes I've taken. The only class I can say I was engaged and learned anything in was the Psychology class. I don't have any way of knowing if their "Professors" are educated in the topic they are "teaching" because some of them don't even post anything constructive or productive in the discussions nor do they give you enough feedback to ensure you are learning enough. Lastly, my grip is with the fact that each course is 5 credits. Why is that? At first their per-credit cost looks competitive but when you factor in that you pay for 2 more credits than most schools you are paying a lot more. It's just not worth it."