Kaplan Reviews

Unlike the negative reviews I have read here, I had a wonderful educational experience at Kaplan. I initially earned my Associates degree and went back to earn my Bachelors degree in Criminal Justice, which allowed me the opportunity to step into the top position within my agency. The professors and instructors were great and in fact, I've become life long friends with a few of them and we continue to keep in touch long after I've graduated. Kaplan as well as any other school, is what you make of it. Put in the hard work and you will reap the rewards of your efforts!

I completed 11 out of 18 courses at Purdue University and was doing well, 7 As, 2 Bs, and 1 course transferred over. That was up until last semester when I received a C. I am presently enrolled and STRUGGLING. Why? Because the remaining courses use random questioning for test. Which means that the exams do not reflect assigned readings for the current units. My first exam covered content from unit 3 and beyond. The problem was that we hadn't even progressed through the first unit.

I enrolled during Fall 2003 and took 2 courses. I decided to enroll in a local university and they would not accept these courses as a transfer. I was told that this school is only accredited to itself and if I planned to go elsewhere then I shouldn't have wasted my time with this school. I had to retake the 2 courses that I had taken at Kaplan once I got to the University.

I was impressed with Kaplan at first. Was telling me that upon graduation they would help me with my resume, they would help me locate jobs In my field and even help me apply for them. They are of no help whatsoever! They sure do bug for the money though. I do not think I should have to pay. They did not do their job!!. Two years since graduation and still no help!

After speaking with Haley Carrillo on the phone today, I will never re-enroll in Kaplan again. He was demeaning, invasive, and condescending. From the very start of the phone call he was brief and rude. I had first began attending Kaplan after my son was born and I wasn't working. My grades were excellent and I was named on the Dean's List for most of my terms. Fast forward to when I re-enrolled after a two year break, I received a major promotion at work. All of my time went into work and my son, as I am a single mother NOT on any type of government aid or child support! I failed classes simply for not attending. I am not arguing that today. I take accountability and just wanted the chance to finish up the degree (as of 1 year ago, I was 2 classes away). As Haley made the already obvious so clear in his tone, "You know you still have to pay for the F's though, right?" I'm fully aware, which is why I wondering why I was being berated... I'm paying you!

I enrolled in Kaplan and had a good experience for a month and a half. Needed to speak to my advisor however she wasn't in the office. The advisor speaking for her told me I was wasting her time and and the school's when they could be better spent on someone who deserves it. This was a few years back but if individuals such as these are supposed to be an Academic Advisor, I can only imagine the standards she was pushing onto the students when they asked for help. Whether under a different name or how few years ago, if this is the sentiment tolerated or personal opinions are more important, DO NOT ENROLL HERE.

I filled out paperwork I thought it was for financial aid. Wrong. It was for a parent student loan! Somehow this went on for two years. I did not know anything about it. I cannot get info from school because it's in my daughter's name. They won't release info to me without her filling out a third party form. Waiting on this to get done. I total feel someone took total advantage of me. I can't pay this. I am living paycheck to check now. I really hope no one gets screwed over like I am. It's not fair to me. I'm going to be the one losing. It's not fair.

I signed up for a Bachelor's degree in Business Management. I was told that I had gotten my financial aid so I assumed everything was good to go. Well it wasn't. I took the first ten weeks of classes which I passed and was loving the classes, but when the next ten week classes came up I was in the second week and they blocked me from getting into the class. They told me I had to come up with a little over a thousand dollars to continue with my classes. Well I was not able to come up with that kind of money in the length of time so I didn't get a chance to do anything. My question is how could I owe Kaplan University that much money when I was taking online classes. I live in Mississippi so saying that, I will go on to explain why I asked the question why I owed them so much because I never got any books. I didn't use the library or anything. I used my own laptop computer and my own electricity so what exactly was Kaplan University charging me for.

Scam, you'll get all the way to the end only to realize you won't have enough to finish. I have 150 credits. Needed 180 to finish. But now I'm stuck with 60000+ in student loans. I worked really hard to obtain my degree and you could see when my worked declined when I found out I wasn't gonna have enough to finish. Even with financial aid and my advisor encouraging me to continue. Why continue to rack up a bill and not get my degree in return?? Now I can't sign up anywhere to continue because I'm to my limit in loans. All that hard work for nothing but in so much debt I'm drowning. What a waste!

I signed up for their real estate course, the woman I spoke to on the phone told me that I had to pay in person and I couldn't pay online...mind you this was all upfront. So I drove the hour to get to her location and she said my books would be arriving at my home shortly. I got my books, and there were no instructions other than an email stating that the "in classroom class" would be in a couple months. I get to the class and the other 15 students and I were under the impression that we would be learning and going through the books and online stuff...nope. The online stuff was supposed to be finished BEFORE coming to this classroom class. This put all of us behind because there are 6 proctored exams that need to be passed before you can go and take the state exam. All of us were angry. I do not recommend this school. Do not waste your money! DO NOT!

Technology for online classes is terrible! Do not use this platform. Classes and tests time out on you and count as an attempt! Find a different platform since this one is not friendly to serious test takers.

Prior to enrolling in Kaplan University, I contacted the DOH of the state where I currently reside to make sure they were regionally and nationally accredited. I received a letter stating that they were, so I enrolled into Kaplan's MSN program. About a year into the program, I began having trouble with several of my instructors. One was so illiterate that she couldn't properly cite nor spell, yet she critiqued my papers harshly. I also began having issues with one of the foreign students who was emailing inappropriate hate mail to me which the instructors excused. I looked into those instructors and discovered they were not doctors of anything, and that the assistant dean was really the senior data clerk.

I was told from the academic adviser that Kaplan was an accredited university & that I could use my degree in Human Services in any state. The financial loan department told me that my loan payment would be based on my income & they also have loan forgiveness. Wrong! Again. My Associate Degree is now in default for $65,000.00. I graduated in 2012, couldn't find a job in the field & now in debt.

My Advisors let me signed for classes without financial verification and identification. I received an email after my final exam that claim my verification missing one page. 1 hour after I send all and called the financial services they declared it was too late so I need to paid in full $4280. My experiences was terrible, for the past 10 months I am trying to searching a solution regarding my student account, no one can help, so sad.

Before I started going to Kaplan I asked many times if they were an accredited university. Since I was a gov contractor I wanted to have the opportunity to get into the government at the location I was at under my degree. What a joke. No job because even though I asked numerous times about accreditation and was told they were. In all actuality they are NOT. Now 60+ in student loans and cannot use my education because they do not recognize it as an accredited college. So for all the hard work I did it was all not worth it. Still cannot get a better job and they want me to pay back the student loans. How can they do this and get away with it?

I have been trying for weeks to get my financial aid to go through yet my first 10 week term is over and now they're saying it will be another 6-8 weeks before my financial aid goes through. I've called over 50 times, being told I would get called back but no one has called me. I will be I will now be considered as dropping out because my financial aid hasn't gone through and I'll be responsible to pay the $3000 yet they will keep all my Grants and loans, makes sense I guess lol. What a joke of a school, worse experience of my life. A waste of time and money. Thanks Purdue Global for a bill and no education!

I signed up for a series of in-person GRE classes that cost $1299. I then rearranged my schedule, changing airline tickets and moving important meetings, to accommodate the class. Out of the blue, just 2 weeks before the class was going to start, they canceled the class because not enough students enrolled (meaning they couldn't make enough money off of it). They didn't offer a refund or even a partial discount to make up for the inconvenience, nor do they even tell you how to re-enroll in a new class. They claim someone will call you in 1-2 days, which no one did.

My Admissions experience was fairly positive. However, there are no dates or amounts posted. You're directed to email/call financial aid and they don't want to give you direct answers to questions like: How are Student Loans processed (semester or term)? How much will be requested? When will my bill be published and how much am I being charged per class? When is the Add/Drop Period? When are refunds processed? All very important questions right?! Then while all that's going on, the online Instructor is "chatting" a live Seminar (class) with screaming kids in the background and not on topic for every class.

I am a NYS real estate salesperson for 19 years, moved to Pennsylvania decided to get my PA real estate salesperson license. I have used several online courses for my NYS License, never had an issue. I googled online courses for Real Estate in PA and decided to go with Brightwood Kaplan. Worst decision I made, when I had a situation with an exam, I called, several weeks later someone called me, it was a waste, he didn't even help any. The biggie was that I had mentioned several times I was a real estate salesperson in NYS for 19 years, and you think they could have told me that I didn't need to take this course. Even if they didn't know that my license was reciprocal, they should at least educate themselves to help the consumer. I think they did, they just wanted the money.

Brightwoods College (successor of Kaplan) for real estate education - Terrible service. Today I tried to register for two courses and emailed my registration request as I have done in the past. The answer was NO. We do not accept registrations by email. YOU have to call. The answer I got said this: "Please call Student Support to place your order, as we do not take orders through email. You can call student support at 888-523-1020. Thank you, **. Student Support 332 Front Street South, Suite 501 La Crosse, WI 54601 Phone: 800.636.9517 Fax: 608.779.8374 Email: restudentsupport@brightwoodsupport.com www.kapre.com" Really? So what do you do in your working hours? I will never register for a course at this school ever.

I received my BS in psychology at Kaplan in 2014, I am now 3 weeks away from completing my Masters. Kaplan is a great school, as stated, you get what you put out. You do have to work. Online is not as easy as many people think. The professors are awesome and academic advising are wonderful as well. My only issue since 2010 is the financial aid department. Something is always changing, everyone is not on the same page, and stipends are almost always delayed. This sucks to me. I have decided after this semester to attend another college to future my education, I simply cannot take how funds are handled another 3 years.

Wife attended this college for a single semester and having nearly $7,000 in grants and loans totaled, her $5,000 bill (incredibly high for a semester) was not covered and she was told to pay out of pocket. Come to find out that they held one of the loans for a month's time to see if she would pay it on her own before the loan came through. We checked back a month later after they dropped her from all classes and refused re-enrollment and the balance was paid with a loan and she even had some extra set to her balance ledger.

Kaplan did not refund me when I failed my NCLEX-PN. I hate Kaplan. I paid $350 on their Kaplan live review. Contact them they keep offering me to review again on their website. They said it was money back guaranteed but it wasn't so don't enroll on Kaplan.

When people think of taking an online class, they think it's going to be so easy. That's true maybe for the local community college, not so much for Kaplan University. One way to describe it is squirrels on Ecstasy at a rave. You have 10 weeks to do the work, but in truth it's pretty much only 7 weeks to do 5 months of work. And you WILL WORK. You only get out of it what you put into it. Most of the professors are professional, you will run into one or two that really shouldn't be teaching but that is something you will see everywhere. You will be given an outline of everything that is due and you have no questions of when everything is due, there is NEVER a doubt when something is due. There is a seminar each week where the professor goes over everything and answers your questions live.

I thought that Kaplan would be the best school to attend. I get my BS done with them and can't find a job in the area. Then I get my MS in Addiction Counseling and still cannot find employment. I am over 80,999 in the hole with student loans from this school. Have no help with that other than they want their money. I am a mother that is not working because no one in this state wants to deal with Kaplan and their drama.

When I first started at this school I was impressed with how personable the instructors actually were. It was nice to have instructors actually treat the students like people. However, my most recent experiences with Kaplan has been anything but ideal. The site goes down quite frequent and just today while trying to log into my classes I learned that my name was not on the list of names for the class, so maybe in 24-48 hours later I can access it. Mind you I have a full time job, two children and spouse. Taking 2 almost three because of the dilemma I had last night trying to access the class can really cause a dent in this. I am not happy with this school and hope that my review can steer at least one person from this school. It's not worth it even though the instructors are good, it's the academic advisors and getting to the class that is the issue. Terrible school, wish I would have known prior to starting with them.

I am in the Master of Management degree program with Kaplan with an emphasis in Human Resources. I will be graduating in August of 2017. I love the way that the online program is easy to maneuver even with their recent changes in connecting with Purdue University which will give it more prestige. Overall, the instructors, classes and assignments were good. The only thing that I did not like was the high emphasis on working in teams. I think that we pay too much money for our work to be based upon if someone did their portion of an assignment.

My last 2 terms I have had a professor who long story short was just absolutely was annoying and I would mute her and teach myself. When your professor bounces on an exercise ball all class long and speaks like Minnie Mouse, you lose it. I was about to have her a 3rd term and reached out to my advisor to see if there was a different professor to teach the class or other options. Yeah! I could take a different class. I had to get permission from the dean, granted and receive an 85 or higher. No problem, My grades have been excellent and I did not see any problem with the class I was about to take, it was a Word class. Should I fail the class, I will have to take the class with Professor Minnie Mouse, no ifs and or buts. Rest assured, I was set out to pass this class with flying colors!

It was very easy for me to enroll at Kaplan University. Thought it would be longer but it was a fast process. I paid my tuition up front but you can divide up the payments which is nice to fit your budget. It's easy to engage and so far no problems. It's very good for online classes. Lots of courses to choose from. Not too expensive, just right for my budget and I can pursue the studies I'm interested in. Good courses. You can get online help which is nice. I can choose the hours I want and with my schedule, it worked out great. I'm not quite done with my courses yet but I get to take my time with it. Don't like being rushed.

I would like a good business program and that is easy access. Is also good that at least be at least 50% classroom and have a flexible schedule and if possible classes from Friday to Sunday in the morning. Class schedules should be at least 4 hours a day for at least two days a week and the intensive course would be good for a duration of at least 6 months of classes, as well as the university supporting the course with a valid certificate to work and recognized by the national education.