Brigham Young University - Idaho Rankings by Salary Score

First off, Pathway was a waste of a year of schooling and the credits from it are useless anywhere but BYUI. BYUI online was a disappointment. While the instructors are generally good, support for online students is non-existant - you're on your own. It's nearly impossible to talk to a human and when you do, it's some fresh faced, clueless kid who is neither trained nor compensated but has been duped into volunteering. They lack real world experience and knowledge adequate to answer the most basic questions... Read More or help students make informed choices about course planning. What they will do is defer to automated software, it was grad planner when I was attending, which is difficult to understand and interface with. I quickly grew weary of the requisite "group work" every course I took assigned. No one took those busy work assignments seriously, I saw this both as a student and a TA. As a 40 year old who has been working in a career for over 20 years, I don't need practice learning to collaborate with others on projects just so BYUI advertising can perpetuate the propagandist lie that "just because its online, you're not alone." I'm LDS, grew up LDS, went to LDS seminary in high school, and served a two year mission, was married in the temple and have 5 kids so I could do without the requirement to take religion courses that teach primary school level doctrine. I neither need nor wish to be proslitized at school, I want a degree as quickly as I can get it while working full time. Being forced to take courses about the restoration, the family or whatever does little more than make a long process longer and cost more money. If I could do it over again...I wouldn't. I earned a certificate and couldn't bring myself to go any further as it was using up every minute of time outside work I had to spare while only getting 3 credits/semester.

The campus is very pretty. The professors are excellent and helpful, and I don't have a problem with the rules or honor code. That being said their lack of communication with students is appalling. They spam their student's emails with daily announcements. Some of the information is important, but most are things like dances, spiritual thoughts, and events on campus. Glitches and technical issues are RAMPANT. Situation 1: Recently, I had to drop a second block class. While I was trying to drop the course,... Read More a message kept popping up saying that I was going to drop all my courses. I thought something was wrong. Because of the yearly required training at my office, I've been going to work early. BYUI opens after I leave and closes before I get off, so I couldn't call them to get help. On top of this, I didn't know when the drop deadline was because my "important dates" calendar has been down for the past two semesters, but it was early so I assumed I was safe. Well, I finally had time to call them before work. Not only did I find out that the "drop all courses" message was normal, but they have two deadlines, and I missed the first one. Mind you, I tried to drop the class before the deadline. I just didn't want to lose all of my classes. The first deadline was to get a tuition refund so I asked if I could file a petition to get my tuition back because of tight finances and technical issues with my calendar. I was told that my circumstances don't qualify for a petition. Situation 2: I don't qualify to live in student-approved housing because of my marital status. I go to school alone. My partner doesn't live with me at school because they have a job in our hometown, but I still can't live on campus in "single student" housing. We cannot afford to have two apartments on one income. When I go to Rexburg I cannot find an affordable place to live. To this school and the people that run it, a rule is a rule. They will not make exceptions, revisions, or compromises. They don't care about your circumstances, no matter what.