Webster University Reviews

"Webster is a fantastic school with wonderful global opportunities. Through the program I had the chance to study on multiple campuses, and present at an international conference. Overall I am satisfied with what the course allowed me to achieve. I have been excited by the opportunity to study in multiple countries, and most certainly developed my academic skills, having professors from a variety of backgrounds. The school truly supports students effectively, and I am grateful for the opportunity to attend such an institution."

"This university was one of the most frustrating institutions I've ever dealt with. Professors regularly missed classes, material was poor and the professors spent a lot of time complaining about the university. Many parts of the university borderline illegal but I cannot go into details about this. I would avoid it at all costs. If you want a cheap degree that requires little effort"

"Webster is a great school with a lot of great opportunities for students. Its a smaller campus with a smaller school feel. The instructors are very knowledgeable too. One of best things about Webster is the attention they give each student. It has a lot of campus improvements too! Many new classrooms. You will be happy with your decision to attend Webster."

"While I have never actually step foot on the St. Louis home campus of Webster University, I am currently studying at my third global Webster campus. I am a part of the Global Master of Arts program in International Relations. My program allows me to earn my masters within 1 year while studying in 5 different countries at their global campuses! Naturally this sort of experience doesn't come cheap, but it is truly a unique opportunity and combining classroom education with professional seminars and personal diversity within each country makes this program worth it!"

"WU values their students. Admissions process is lacking. The school has very little follow-up and it requires the prospect student to chase them. Financial aid office needs a lot of improvement as well. This department is unorganized and can't always answer your questions. Their follow-up is rated pretty low as well. Classes are small and instructors take time to get to know you as a person. School is politically ran so favoritism is played quite often. It's difficult to say that every student is equal because not every student is and not every student is given the same opportunities as others."

"I thoroughly enjoyed my time at Webster University. The staff was friendly and very helpful. The content was based off real life situations and was very insightful. I am able to revert back to many of my courses and use the situations addressed during class to my employment."

"It's a good school with a great reputation. My only concern was how they seem to be moving most graduate evening classes to online classes so it was hard to find required classes when you are wanting a classroom setting versus online."

"Good experience, but be prepared to work. Based on your real world work experience, some classes may not seem to add value, but are useful overall."

"They work with working students to make it possible to handle both work and school."

"I loved that it was in classroom learning, this school had a great reputation in St. Louis and so I went to the satellite office in KC, great experience."

"Webster university is convenient in having many satellite campus' to attend classes at. The instructors at my campus had years of real world experience to relate to the material."

"Im a graduate of Webster University, having received my Master of Marketing (MMkt) last year. A major strength of the program is that I was able to take electives in other Webster departments outside of the Management Department that I was interested in I took a Branding course that was taught by their advertising professor in the School of Communications and a Data Mining course in their computer science department in the School of Business and Technology. The major included courses in Digital Marketing, Marketing Research, Marketing Statistics and Marketing Analytics among other traditional;courses, M. Management, Int. Marketing, Promo. Marketing. I attended some seminars put on by the American Marketing Association (Webster is a sponsor of the St. Louis chapter) and have made some valuable contacts through the networking opportunities there. Enjoyable experience with excellent teachers and fellow students."

"To be honest I have to totally disagree with all these 4 star ratings and agree with the 1 star ones. The Webster University I went to was a joke. The course standards were terrible, and I found myself quitting at least 4 of the courses due to low standards. Many of my classmates also quit the degree completely going to proper AACSB accredited schools. As has been stated all over this blog there were no spread sheets such as Excel, and no a sign of complex modeling or advanced quants which are the backbone of any MBA. I also never had any PHD experts teaching my courses. What am I paying a huge $2800 a course for? To read some book chapters and write a multiple choice exam? I found most of the courses 1st year level in terms of material and depth. The real test of a university's quality is its reputation with recruiters and companies and Webster didn't have a single one come near the place when I graduated. In fact, Webster's career center could not place a single grad from my group. We were given every excuse possible and finally a membership in Right Associates which is the old manpower group that places secretaries and office staff (for MBA graduates???). When I asked Webster why it cannot draw in any companies nor even give me a single name for a contact they simply told me "we are a business selling courses and have fulfilled our contract to you. We did not promise you a job or career!" As for the alumnae, not a single job or contact could be provided by the school. This is all ridiculous as any decent MBA or grad school easily places its graduates with companies (especially experienced working adult grads)-- lining up jobs or career contacts long before graduation! Not with Webster. and this very expensive degree that cost me and a dozen of my classmates over $50,000 is worthless in the job market. We have been out for well over a year with hundreds of CV's and cold calls and nothing! Not a single one of us has gotten a better or field related job as companies don't even acknowledge Webster's non-AACSB junk degrees. I look at my friends with SLU, Wash U, and Columbia MBA's and they were fought over by major corporations long before graduation. I apply and my Webster degree ends up in the garbage can. For me, Webster's degree is a waste of time, money and effort."

"I graduated from Webster's Main Campus with my Master of Science in Finance. The program equipped me to pass the CFP exam on the first attempt and helped me with career advancement at Wells Fargo. My professors came from industry where several of them already held the designations and they showed me how they work with their wealth management clients to manage risk and reward for their client's portfolios. It was fascinating to see how they were able to assess client's goals and then structure a portfolio to take action with sophistication. Other courses that were taught by quants with PhDs focused on business valuation (which came in handy in looking at equity pricing), scenario planning, capital budgeting, cost of capital/WACC analysis, financial statement analysis, portfolio optimization, derivatives, option pricing and international aspects of currency trading. Class sizes were perfect for getting individualized attention. Learned tons about practical and financial theory."

"Webster is a pretty strange place, but in a good way. It claims diversity, but be aware that a vast majority of the campus is white and straight. However, it is very accepting and understanding and non-judgemental. Classes are small, which is great if you're a hands on/one-on-one learned like myself. The worst aspects of it are pretty much the food, parking, the entire financial aid department, and Res Life constantly over selling rooms"

"It is very flexible and the teachers are very helpful"

"Very good college, with good scheduling but kind of pricey."

"My courses at Webster University exposed me to theories and practices that I was able to take back to my company. I work in Training and Development and I found the Organizational Development course and the Capstone projects to be beneficial in equipping me with the tools needed to help my company facilitate some organizational culture and change initiatives we've undertaken with a merger that we've been involved with. My classmates and professors were helpful in giving me feedback on how to work with our line managers to implement some key strategies. The Research and Assessment course gave me some tools to use to measure employee engagement pre and post some leadership climate interventions that we ran with. My overall experience with Webster was great!"

"I would not recommend Webster's Walker business school at all. Academics bordering on unethical. No computer training. No evidence of any investment in the program or research whatsoever. Awful teachers of which 99% that are Not Doctorates. My instructors knew little about their subjects, never mind being cited experts in their fields (a Boeing salesman should not be a Marketing instructor). You will quickly find out the Webster brand name is not respected at all anywhere. There is no functional alumnae despite over 500k graduates so no job or networking connections at all which speaks volumes. And not a single company recruiting from Webster at all. This is not a place to invest a penny in. My advice is when talking to Webster DEMAND from the very start in writing vitals such as actual recruitment done of all graduates not a cherry-picked sample, proof of actual large scale alumnae and corporate contacts and placement, amounts actually invested in academics and research/budgets for each program, the publication lists of all instructors and rankings of them by peers in their fields, certified rankings FROM NEWSWEEK AND THE TIMES of each individual program both regionally and national (not just the general regional rank used for arts and the school which tells you nothing that Webster pushes). Finally, demand in writing that is why Webster business courses which cost $3000 each are fully transferable to any and every business school in the USA (especially AACSB schools) or else they are worthless. If Webster refuses any of these very reasonable transparent requeuts in writing Run away as fast as you can."

"The evening class hours made it possible to work full time and go to school at the same time.."