Complaint Review: Colorado Technical University - CTU

For me, this school seemed to be perfectly legit, until I tried to actually put the degree to good use. I got my associates in accounts in November of 2008, and continued towards my bachelors. I currently have 132 credits, 90 credits from the associates and 42 towards my bachelors. Due to the fact that there are many people with a masters degree from any school, not just CTU, that are currently mopping floors and delivering pizza, I decided to make a major change. I decided to join the Navy. All was going well with enrollment in the military until they took a look at my associates. This degree should have earned me a higher ranking than the average recruit. My degree, however, is invalid to the military. They do not recognize this school as accredited. My military ranking will be based solely on my high school transcripts. If the United States Armed Forces do not accept this school as "real" or "valid", how can we expect future employers to take it seriously? All the money I paid to attend CTU and earn my degree can easily be replaced by hard work, but the TIME can never be replaced. Now, I don't see the purpose of even continuing with my bachelors degree. What good is it?

I have received 2 MBA's from CTU Online. It is a valid school or it would not be able to receive Title 4 funds from the government, so it is legit. I have had nothing but good experiences with this school. I would recommend it to anyone who wants to go back to school to get a good quality education.

Often times, bad things happen. But, we have to look at what we contributed to the problem. Maybe if you really experienced those things, you should have contacted the Ombudsman Office of the School. They are there to help you.

I am not an employee either. I'm just a satisfied student that is receiving a good quality education from a reputable school.

I have received 2 MBA's from CTU Online. It is a valid school or it would not be able to receive Title 4 funds from the government, so it is legit. I have had nothing but good experiences with this school. I would recommend it to anyone who wants to go back to school to get a good quality education.

Often times, bad things happen. But, we have to look at what we contributed to the problem. Maybe if you really experienced those things, you should have contacted the Ombudsman Office of the School. They are there to help you.

I am not an employee either. I'm just a satisfied student that is receiving a good quality education from a reputable school.

I have received 2 MBA's from CTU Online. It is a valid school or it would not be able to receive Title 4 funds from the government, so it is legit. I have had nothing but good experiences with this school. I would recommend it to anyone who wants to go back to school to get a good quality education.

Often times, bad things happen. But, we have to look at what we contributed to the problem. Maybe if you really experienced those things, you should have contacted the Ombudsman Office of the School. They are there to help you.

I am not an employee either. I'm just a satisfied student that is receiving a good quality education from a reputable school.

I have received 2 MBA's from CTU Online. It is a valid school or it would not be able to receive Title 4 funds from the government, so it is legit. I have had nothing but good experiences with this school. I would recommend it to anyone who wants to go back to school to get a good quality education.

Often times, bad things happen. But, we have to look at what we contributed to the problem. Maybe if you really experienced those things, you should have contacted the Ombudsman Office of the School. They are there to help you.

I am not an employee either. I'm just a satisfied student that is receiving a good quality education from a reputable school.

Hello all. I just wanted to chime in and say that I am currently a CTU student. I have had a brilliant time, so far, with this university. I am starting my fourth session soon for my associates in IT and will be following up with my bach..

The advisors have been extremely helpful and nice in their efforts for me to come to school here. I might add that they have also kept in touch until the third session, .... to make sure everything was going okay. ANYTIME I have ever had a question with some kind of policy they have always answered quickly, or found the answer and got back to me within a day.

The cost have been exactly what I was told and my academic plan will be finishing within the said time frame.

The teachers have extremely helpful and informative. I did have one situation where a particular teacher took forever to email me about an issue that needed clarification, but minus that it all has been very timely. I do admit that the live chats are a bit different, but what can you really expect..... they are sitting at home in their pajamas like I am most of the time.


Anyone who is reading this and wished to talk further on the subject can always email. I have nothing, but good dealings with the school as it sits.

Chris

All right folks, I have had enough of this. So basically, the person making the complaint says that CTU is just so horrible that the only positive responses MUST be by paid employees. That's bull.

I will be finishing my Bachelor of Science degree in two months. LEt me tell you about my experience.

First of all, when I first enrolled in 2005, the admissions process was very very "sales oriented" (pushy) but, I enrolled anyway. I was less than pleased with my first four sessions of school, so I withdrew and had my transcripts sent to the University of Scranton, a fully accredited Jesuit college in NE Pennsylvania.

To all of the people who complain that "CTU Credits don't transfer" you are mistaken, and I will tell you why. Upon arriving at Scranton, 5 of my 8 courses transferred. The reason the remaining 3 did not was due to the fact that those 3 were business courses and some (but not all) colleges and universities have special accreditation of their business school programs (like the AACSB or the ACBSP). Because CTU (and many other four year colleges) do not have that accreditation, it greatly limits the number of upper division business credits than can be transferred. This is a problem that can occur with ANY college when transferring credits.

After a year at the University of Scranton, my reserve unit was activated and if I wanted to continue attending school, I had to return to CTU. I waited until August 2008 to re-enroll. Every single credit from the University of Scranton transferred back to CTU Online and lowered the completion time of my degree to around 12 months.

For those people who say that employers "won't accept CTU degrees" I really have no idea what you are talking about. I have applied for job since, and they want to know if you have a college degree and if the institution that awarded it is accredited (many employers don't even ask that much). HR Personnel don't scour the internet looking for reports of investigations on your school. I did get a job with an insurance brokerage who is presently paying my tuition for me to complete my Bachelor of Science degree through CTU (I will have it in July 2009).

I have applied to three different online MBA Programs (one through Norwich University, one through PennState University and another through Drexel University). I was accepted to each one of them, though I ultimately decided on Norwich University. Do you want to tell me that Norwich University is also a fake college?

If you think I'm fake, then e-mail me. Go ahead and be a man. I'll let you call me at work, or even e-mail me on my company e-mail to prove I am not a CTU Employee. I'm a guy who enrolled in a program that he is happy with and is really tired of idiots bashing the school that I have on my resume.

CTU had some serious problems before, as did many other colleges, but a lot of those have since been worked out and I can safely tell you that CTU has improved A LOT since '05. If you aren't happy with your former job, go ahead and quit and move on. Most people don't feel compelled to bash their former employer on RipOff Reports.

My e-mail address is (((Redacted)))


CLICK here to see why Rip-off Report, as a matter of policy, deleted either a phone number, link or e-mail address from this Report.

I attended CTU for a Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration / Management, which I received in 2006. My experience with the school was very different from what you describe.

First of all, I was 45 years old when I started and had a great deal of professional work experience which I could leverage in order to get past the freshman and sophomore courses. I took a large number of CLEP (College Level Examination Program) tests, each of which resulted in a course being waived (for those not familiar, this is a national testing program accepted at virtually all colleges and universities). The tests included such subjects as College Math, Analysis and Interpretation of Literature, Natural Sciences, College French, Computer Sciences, American Government and a number of others. I then completed a work portfolio for additional credit, providing extensive documentary evidence of college-level performance in several professional disciplines.

Between the CLEPs and the work portfolio, I satisfied all freshman and sophomore course requirements and came into the school as a junior. Yes, it took them awhile to assess the work portfolio, but it was extremely extensive and I wouldn't have expected them to breeze through it in an afternoon.

I then completed all of my junior and senior courses in fourteen months, just as the university says, and graduated Summa c*m Laude. During that fourteen months I quite frankly worked my a*s off (again not a surprise, given that I was compressing two years of college into a year and two months). I was very proactive at communicating individually with instructors in order to maintain that high-A average. Other than one or two instructors I didn't like much (who nonetheless gave me high marks), everyone was very supportive and overall I think I was well-served by CTU.

And no, I'm not a teacher or CTU employee, just an alumnus who had a good experience. I own a video production company.

If you're curious you can see a profile CTU did on my experience here (hopefully the Ripoff Report staff won't redact it - it's on CTU's own website so there should be no reason to):

http://www.ctuonline.edu/about_campus/student_alumni/gould_p.aspx

Assuming they left the above link intact, anyone who is genuinely wondering if I'm a real person and not a shill should be able to find me through Google.

Regards,

Pete