Colorado State University Global Rankings by Salary Score

I'm not entirely sure what's behind some of the negative reviews on here, but perhaps some people have unreasonable expectations or a misunderstanding of what education is. I've been to in person universities and now CSU Global, and there are good professors and bad professors in each. When you have a bad professor, you muddle through without crying about it. Most of my profs have been reasonably good. With the online format, "reasonably good" means acceptable. You are not going to get an in-person lecture... Read More nor a qa session from this format; It is a curated and (usually) updated set of slides with linked supplemental material. The lecture material itself is pretty lame, but I typically found that to be true for traditional in person classes as well. The value of this program is in the assembled materials and assignments from the combination of courses that meet the program objectives. The combination of program materials will prepare you for a new career perspective. Like any university program, you are not going to be fully trained to jump into the workforce and start kicking butt. You will end up with a high-level overview of the entire field with a focus on research skills (this is an academic degree). Based on that overview, you will need to build your personal skillsets and take on a professional internship if you don't already have a job in your field, just like in the traditional university format. If you are expecting a professor to walk you through a book chapter by chapter the way they frequently do for in-person university courses, it doesn't happen here. Completing the assigned reading holds the key to education at CSU Global. If you have ever been serious about attending a university at any level, the same is true. If you are not reading, you are not learning. You are largely on your own to get through and understand the material. I can't speak for the undergrad program, but from beginning to end of a masters program, I will have written about 90 4-15 page research papers and projects, longer for capstones. If you hate writing, hate doing research, and think that writing 90 research papers on focused topics won't give you any value, then you should pass on this. If you write 90 pieces of trash, then you probably won't get much out of it, since the professors won't hold your hand through that. But if you write 90 best effort research papers, you may learn more than you probably ever did in an in person course. Its entirely up to you. If you are looking for prestige, I hear Stanford is pretty good.