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Southern New Hampshire University SNHU.edu On-line Eduction Rip Off -- Don be Suckered! Internet
SNHU is running a grift on its students. Note that it gives you 3 credits for 8 weeks of work, instead of the normal 16 at a real college, but you pay as if you're at University of X or X State University. This system is in place so SNHU can suck down massive amounts of federal aid, not because it is the best way of providing quality education. SNHU exists to make money for SNHU ... tho' it is a not-for-profit unlike Phoenix and the other thieving dens. Regardless of the on-line schools' for-profit or not-for-profit status, at the end of the program, you get lots of debt for a s*** sandwich without the bread. Now if you want to just fill a block, enroll here, but you should know that in the real world, people will in fact look down upon you for having a SNHU degree. SNHU is rotten to the core: they get only crappy professors (a great number of them educated only in on-line settings, which is why this is more a Ponzi scheme than a college) who make only $2200 a course (what's their motivation to go above and beyond for you when the prof is getting $110 on average for each student? ... that's $13.75 per week per student ... how many hours of the prof's attention each week do you think $13.75 buys you? -- about 15 minutes if your lucky); the work that students get away with performing is a pathetic (20 pages of reading a week in a class, for example) but the grades are inflated through the ceiling; and the staff designing the curricula have joke degrees (why do their deans, for example, have only MA degrees, and then from 5th-rate schools?). If you want a real educational experience, enroll at your local community college, earn your intro credits there, then go do the hard work and make the sacrifices at a brick and mortar school to get a real degree.
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VanessaFas
New Haven,Connecticut,
USA
This sounds like every school, sorry to say
#2Consumer Suggestion
Tue, November 22, 2016
The pay for part-time professors is abyssmal across the board, this is no exception. I also attend SNHU, and can say that I work my butt off, and in some classes only get a C or C+. They do not hand out grades. Also, they are a legit school. If I lived closer, I would attend their day classes, on-campus.
The thing is this; going to school online can be tricky. For the student, but also for the professor. It's hard to try to grade the work of 25-50 or even 75-100 students a week, as online classes average 25 students.
The thing about college is this; you get what YOU put into it. If you feel like it's too easy, do more work, and see what happens. I am learning tons through my studies at SNHU, proven by my taking my Praxis II Math last week. What I learned last term was on the test!
Good luck continuing your education. Based on what you've said, I would suggest you do not attend online courses, anywhere. I think you might need the human interaction that goes with a class taken in a traditional setting.
Jeanski
Dayton,Ohio,
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#3Consumer Comment
Tue, December 09, 2014
I don't know what your major was, but I decided to check out SNHU and see if your complaints have merit (I'm a little bored this morning). I teach psychology, so I went to that department to make an educated assessment of their faculty. All of them have PhDs in the field, and only one of the full time faculty has their doctorate from an online school.
The Dean of Arts and Sciences has TWO Fulbright awards. This is quite an achievement. She also has held fellowship positions with some prestigious organizations. The Chairman of the department of psychology has his PhD from Baylor. Not too shabby!
I suspect that you were unfortunate enough to get some adjuncts to who just do the minimum to earn their pay. I teach as an adjunct for two schools - one online, one traditional. I get paid the about the same (around $2200 per course) regardless. I put 100% of my effort into my students, and I take my job seriously.
It may be that online learning just isn't for you. But I agree that in many cases, students are best served by starting at their local community college.
