I attended Kaplan University's Psychology program with a concentration in addictions from 10/2009 - 3/2015. I chose this program because it was one of the few that offered addiction studies. I was able to obtain my Bachelor's through this program. I studied hard and diligently for my Bachelors and even made the Dean's list at least 3x's over the course of the two years I attended Kaplan. I was so motivated and inspired by my accomplishments at Kaplan that I decided to entrust them with helping me to obtain my Masters in Psychology.
I spent many a long night writing paper after paper making sure my grades were passing. If I did not do well in a class I would retake the class in order to keep my gpa up in order to continue to stay in school to obtain my Masters. If I did not do well in a class and I would appeal if I were threatened with being withdrawn. I needed to continue on in order to a stay on task. The overall objective for me was to obtain my Masters degree.
I completed all of my coursework for my Masters. I had the same writing style for all of my papers. When it came time for me to take my Comprehensive exams I was told that my paper did not reflect that of Masters degree writing. I was in disbelief since this was the same style I had when I did most of the work that got me those A's and B's.
I appealed to the school to retake the exams to see if I could possibly improve in my writing for the exams. I was denied the appealed and this left me in shock and in disbelief. I feel I got no support from anyone there not even my Academic Advisor. The strangers who I was not familar with that critiqued my work for my exams took a blinds eye and deaf ears. They did not want to hear anything that I had to say. This was very disheartening to me. I felt deceived because I had studied so long and hard to get to this point. This was no easy taks. I spent many long night and late nights writing paper after paper.
I am now responsible for paying back 1,000's of dollars for my education at Kaplan. Nothing to show for this other than my Bachelors degree. The Master degree I saw as my window of opportunity to become involved in work at the professional level.
I am asking that a full investigation be done in looking at Kaplan University and their tactics in awarding degrees. I feel cheated and deceived.
I graduated from Kaplan in 2009 and was left to fend for myself. After several issues throughout my schooling process, I guess I shouldn't have hoped for anything more upon graduating. I actually tried to get a group of classmates together to pursue legal action, but some of them ended up moving away and didn't want to deal with it. I would be happy to contact some of them again and see if they'd be interested now. My main complaint was as we moved towards graduation, we had to choose options for our externship and for the program I was taking, we needed hands on experience in order to take our state board exams. We were doing therapy, phlebotomy, and EKG in our classes, and phlebotomy and EKG both require so many occurrences to take the test, but there weren't enough extern options and they told us to just choose one and they'd help us later. Well, day came for us to sign out of school and make sure everything was complete, we went back to the job center after that to see about getting another extern site so we could get our 50 sticks for phlebotomy and were told that we couldn't get any other sites because we are no longer students since we just signed out of all our classes! I was furious! I needed this so I could take my state exam and so they proceeded to tell me I could go volunteer at the AIDS clinic to get my sticks, but don't tell them that's why you're there, you'll have to commit to a few months of volunteer work. I was appalled because I had no medical insurance, we were now signed out of Kaplan so there's no insurance from them, and you're telling us to lie to this clinic and go put ourselves in danger because you lied and mislead us?!?! They do not care about your well-being at all, you are just a dollar sign! Graduation comes, I can't find a job, I'm unemployed because I had to quit my job in order to complete the mandatory 3 week clinical rotation. I called the job center several times a week trying to get job listings and they were of no help. Finally, after having a meltdown on the phone, the woman lined me up for an interview working at a group home for physically and mentally challenged adults. I took it because I was desperate and was hired, but I was making less money than before, and the job was not worth it. You don't need education to work there, you get abused by clients and are not a valued employee. After a pretty extensive injury to my wrist while on the job, I quit and found something else. I still have issues with my wrist to this day, haven't needed my "education" for anything, and have tons of student loans for a useless certificate. I had looked into going to a real college after, but those credits they say you can transfer to another school, totally bogus! No one looks at Kaplan as being a legitimate educational institution. The hospitals didn't care about my education either, I was only able to get some very part time per diem hours because the only legitimate thing I got from Kaplan was my CNA license, which wasn't what I wanted to do and isn't why I even signed up for the program I did. Needless to say, I wasted my time and racked up a lot of debt that I can't even begin to payoff, ended up filing for bankruptcy but these loans will continue to follow me. I tell everyone I know to avoid Kaplan because it's a ripoff and a scam!
My daughter has a degree from Kaplan University online Davenport Iowa. she has an associates in information technology. We have been reading lots of reviews and complaints on the internet about the college. We are trying to find out if the course she took is accredited, she was told that it was. But we are hearing that its not. she owes over 20,000 in student loans and will not be able to repay this if she was lied to about it being accredited. They were very pushy with her as she was only 17 years old when she enrolled in 2011. They made it sound like she would have no problem paying these loans back. I feel my daughter was taken advantage of. Please if anyone has any info. on this college that will be helpful to us please inform me. She just had a baby in June of this year and needs to find a job with this degree and make a life for her and her daughter and also pay these loans back.
Kaplan university is a rip off! I was being taught law classes by a construction contractor. Also I took a leave of absence and when I tried to come back and finish the classes I was in I was directed to a phony it's link that they claimed I had to get paperwork from to attend classes. The link went nowhere and after a long wild goose chase they told me I was too late to come back and started charging me for classes I wasn't attending. Many of their teachers have no idea what they are doing or teaching and the whole time I felt like it was all a hoax. I only tried to go back because Im not a quitter once I put my mind to something but kaplan are pros at forcing people out so they can take their money faster. I tried to contact them to make payments but they will accept nothing but what they say I owe in full! My credit is destroyed and I want everyone to know what a scam they are. My ex fiance and my sister started taking classes at the same time as me and were also duped.
I went to check it out one day, and admit that I was in a desperate state as I wanted very badly to get an education and be able to afford it. I was concerned about taking out loans but they reassured me that I will get grants to cover a good chunk of the cost and that I would make plenty of money in the field I choose. Originally, I checked out their massage program but by the end of our overview, I was signed up to start classes as a computer technician that same day. After 3 months, (and 1/3rd of the course through), I realized I still didn't know anything about computers- and I took my studies VERY seriously. So I switched into the massage program (they took out MORE student loans for this as well). Btw, they ended up terminating their computer technician course due to a low student count and high failure rate... Today I owe them $27,000 and growing for 3 + 9 months of education. I don't work in either field today. I just wanted to get ahead in life, now iI may very we'll be paying this for the rest of my life.
I started attending Kaplan University in 2015, by the end of my ten weeks I had a 4.0. I learned for 10 weeks and owed 1855.00 for College Comp I on how to make one type of essay. I spent 1855.00 on Health Science 101 when my instrcutor would miss weekly seminrs that are graded that students are to spend an hour on but the instrcutor did not because she was on vacation. I got into my second semester which was college comp II and realized that I was learning how to write one type of paper...for ten weeks. I wanted to switch my degree to psychology and sent papers in at least 4 weeks in advance and they were not recognized and I got stuck taking classes I would not pay for. I realized I could not get a degree for psychology doing what I want in this school at all. Instrcutors saw this and said nothing other than they wanted to keep their jobs and keep us in class; Not for us but themseleves it seems. I will owe over 3,000 for classes I learned nothing from and that did not help my career chioice. I could learn what I did from these courses just using google and reading about certain subjects myself which I plan to do.
I was pushed into student loans that I didnt understand. Paid Money to them which, had I known what I was doing then I woud have let them kick me out because I did have student loans to cover the cost. Financial aid was pushing me to get these loans which I thought were grants. And I graduated with honors and Deans List for every module and did my internship. After graduation I was harrassed by people from kaplan wanting money and telling me I was getting a phone call from employers for interviews, in which I never recieved one phone call. I myself applied for jobs in 5 surrounding counties no matter which posistion and never was hired. If there is a class action lawsuit going on I woud like to file for it before these student loans try to come after my current wages and taxes!
Was always technical issues , educators not very informing , seminars a waste of time if I wasn't repeatedly booted out the professor spent it addressing one on one questions to other students never learned anything more than what I could of learned by googling it very upset and feeling mislead biggest mistake of my life total discouraged me from perusing my education
Kaplan University Reviews
I attended Kaplan University's Psychology program with a concentration in addictions from 10/2009 - 3/2015. I chose this program because it was one of the few that offered addiction studies. I was able to obtain my Bachelor's through this program. I studied hard and diligently for my Bachelors and even made the Dean's list at least 3x's over the course of the two years I attended Kaplan. I was so motivated and inspired by my accomplishments at Kaplan that I decided to entrust them with helping me to obtain my Masters in Psychology.
I spent many a long night writing paper after paper making sure my grades were passing. If I did not do well in a class I would retake the class in order to keep my gpa up in order to continue to stay in school to obtain my Masters. If I did not do well in a class and I would appeal if I were threatened with being withdrawn. I needed to continue on in order to a stay on task. The overall objective for me was to obtain my Masters degree.
I completed all of my coursework for my Masters. I had the same writing style for all of my papers. When it came time for me to take my Comprehensive exams I was told that my paper did not reflect that of Masters degree writing. I was in disbelief since this was the same style I had when I did most of the work that got me those A's and B's.
I appealed to the school to retake the exams to see if I could possibly improve in my writing for the exams. I was denied the appealed and this left me in shock and in disbelief. I feel I got no support from anyone there not even my Academic Advisor. The strangers who I was not familar with that critiqued my work for my exams took a blinds eye and deaf ears. They did not want to hear anything that I had to say. This was very disheartening to me. I felt deceived because I had studied so long and hard to get to this point. This was no easy taks. I spent many long night and late nights writing paper after paper.
I am now responsible for paying back 1,000's of dollars for my education at Kaplan. Nothing to show for this other than my Bachelors degree. The Master degree I saw as my window of opportunity to become involved in work at the professional level.
I am asking that a full investigation be done in looking at Kaplan University and their tactics in awarding degrees. I feel cheated and deceived.
I graduated from Kaplan in 2009 and was left to fend for myself. After several issues throughout my schooling process, I guess I shouldn't have hoped for anything more upon graduating. I actually tried to get a group of classmates together to pursue legal action, but some of them ended up moving away and didn't want to deal with it. I would be happy to contact some of them again and see if they'd be interested now. My main complaint was as we moved towards graduation, we had to choose options for our externship and for the program I was taking, we needed hands on experience in order to take our state board exams. We were doing therapy, phlebotomy, and EKG in our classes, and phlebotomy and EKG both require so many occurrences to take the test, but there weren't enough extern options and they told us to just choose one and they'd help us later. Well, day came for us to sign out of school and make sure everything was complete, we went back to the job center after that to see about getting another extern site so we could get our 50 sticks for phlebotomy and were told that we couldn't get any other sites because we are no longer students since we just signed out of all our classes! I was furious! I needed this so I could take my state exam and so they proceeded to tell me I could go volunteer at the AIDS clinic to get my sticks, but don't tell them that's why you're there, you'll have to commit to a few months of volunteer work. I was appalled because I had no medical insurance, we were now signed out of Kaplan so there's no insurance from them, and you're telling us to lie to this clinic and go put ourselves in danger because you lied and mislead us?!?! They do not care about your well-being at all, you are just a dollar sign! Graduation comes, I can't find a job, I'm unemployed because I had to quit my job in order to complete the mandatory 3 week clinical rotation. I called the job center several times a week trying to get job listings and they were of no help. Finally, after having a meltdown on the phone, the woman lined me up for an interview working at a group home for physically and mentally challenged adults. I took it because I was desperate and was hired, but I was making less money than before, and the job was not worth it. You don't need education to work there, you get abused by clients and are not a valued employee. After a pretty extensive injury to my wrist while on the job, I quit and found something else. I still have issues with my wrist to this day, haven't needed my "education" for anything, and have tons of student loans for a useless certificate. I had looked into going to a real college after, but those credits they say you can transfer to another school, totally bogus! No one looks at Kaplan as being a legitimate educational institution. The hospitals didn't care about my education either, I was only able to get some very part time per diem hours because the only legitimate thing I got from Kaplan was my CNA license, which wasn't what I wanted to do and isn't why I even signed up for the program I did. Needless to say, I wasted my time and racked up a lot of debt that I can't even begin to payoff, ended up filing for bankruptcy but these loans will continue to follow me. I tell everyone I know to avoid Kaplan because it's a ripoff and a scam!
My daughter has a degree from Kaplan University online Davenport Iowa. she has an associates in information technology. We have been reading lots of reviews and complaints on the internet about the college. We are trying to find out if the course she took is accredited, she was told that it was. But we are hearing that its not. she owes over 20,000 in student loans and will not be able to repay this if she was lied to about it being accredited. They were very pushy with her as she was only 17 years old when she enrolled in 2011. They made it sound like she would have no problem paying these loans back. I feel my daughter was taken advantage of. Please if anyone has any info. on this college that will be helpful to us please inform me. She just had a baby in June of this year and needs to find a job with this degree and make a life for her and her daughter and also pay these loans back.
Kaplan university is a rip off! I was being taught law classes by a construction contractor. Also I took a leave of absence and when I tried to come back and finish the classes I was in I was directed to a phony it's link that they claimed I had to get paperwork from to attend classes. The link went nowhere and after a long wild goose chase they told me I was too late to come back and started charging me for classes I wasn't attending. Many of their teachers have no idea what they are doing or teaching and the whole time I felt like it was all a hoax. I only tried to go back because Im not a quitter once I put my mind to something but kaplan are pros at forcing people out so they can take their money faster. I tried to contact them to make payments but they will accept nothing but what they say I owe in full! My credit is destroyed and I want everyone to know what a scam they are. My ex fiance and my sister started taking classes at the same time as me and were also duped.
I went to check it out one day, and admit that I was in a desperate state as I wanted very badly to get an education and be able to afford it. I was concerned about taking out loans but they reassured me that I will get grants to cover a good chunk of the cost and that I would make plenty of money in the field I choose. Originally, I checked out their massage program but by the end of our overview, I was signed up to start classes as a computer technician that same day. After 3 months, (and 1/3rd of the course through), I realized I still didn't know anything about computers- and I took my studies VERY seriously. So I switched into the massage program (they took out MORE student loans for this as well). Btw, they ended up terminating their computer technician course due to a low student count and high failure rate... Today I owe them $27,000 and growing for 3 + 9 months of education. I don't work in either field today. I just wanted to get ahead in life, now iI may very we'll be paying this for the rest of my life.
I started attending Kaplan University in 2015, by the end of my ten weeks I had a 4.0. I learned for 10 weeks and owed 1855.00 for College Comp I on how to make one type of essay. I spent 1855.00 on Health Science 101 when my instrcutor would miss weekly seminrs that are graded that students are to spend an hour on but the instrcutor did not because she was on vacation. I got into my second semester which was college comp II and realized that I was learning how to write one type of paper...for ten weeks. I wanted to switch my degree to psychology and sent papers in at least 4 weeks in advance and they were not recognized and I got stuck taking classes I would not pay for. I realized I could not get a degree for psychology doing what I want in this school at all. Instrcutors saw this and said nothing other than they wanted to keep their jobs and keep us in class; Not for us but themseleves it seems. I will owe over 3,000 for classes I learned nothing from and that did not help my career chioice. I could learn what I did from these courses just using google and reading about certain subjects myself which I plan to do.
I was pushed into student loans that I didnt understand. Paid Money to them which, had I known what I was doing then I woud have let them kick me out because I did have student loans to cover the cost. Financial aid was pushing me to get these loans which I thought were grants. And I graduated with honors and Deans List for every module and did my internship. After graduation I was harrassed by people from kaplan wanting money and telling me I was getting a phone call from employers for interviews, in which I never recieved one phone call. I myself applied for jobs in 5 surrounding counties no matter which posistion and never was hired. If there is a class action lawsuit going on I woud like to file for it before these student loans try to come after my current wages and taxes!
Was always technical issues , educators not very informing , seminars a waste of time if I wasn't repeatedly booted out the professor spent it addressing one on one questions to other students never learned anything more than what I could of learned by googling it very upset and feeling mislead biggest mistake of my life total discouraged me from perusing my education