Pennsylvania State University World Campus

I am deeply disappointed regarding my Penn State World Campus experience. Even as a part time student, the experience was overwhelming due to the ridiculous amount of time spent with numerous technology issues. My tuition wasn't billed properly, and even after paying my tuition for the semester, I received a bill. Their explanation was that the system just caught up to the amount of credits that I had transferred in. It was suggested that I use my tax refund that I had already earmarked to pay for this mistake. There were other numerous issues as well. After close to a year after being admitted, I was contacted and told that 12 classes that were part of my degree would have to be repeated if I couldn't provide a syllabi for each.This should have been handled before I began classes. I stated this to the Penn State representative, who responded that she wasn't responsible for what was done by admissions. I had already contacted my original institution to obtain my syllabus for one course that couldn't be found due to the lengthy time frame between when I took the course and today. I would not have attended if I knew my degree would cost me another $5000 and the school could not offer my a concrete curriculum that should not have changed during attendance.

I started out at Penn State Berks but then had to change to Penn State World Campus after an accident. I was not impressed at all, actually I was pretty frusterated. The support system was clueless, they had no idea of simple things and I ended up calling University Park because they simply said "write an email" and no one would respond. The teachers are terribly rude and lazy, 3/4 of my teachers were very rude when questions were asked. They use a lot of technology which is good but that's also a down fall because things get lost in transit and even if you have the document on the computer saying that you submitted it but it must have no processed they thought you were lying. It took me 3 WEEKS to change back to Penn State Berks because they just had no idea how to change campus' and never responded to emails which were sent multiple times. It works but there are definitely better places you can get a degree online!