Beware of Northcentral

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Good work Reverend Rick for showing what a bunch of scumbags operate at NCU. Anyone considering pursuing a program there should take heed.? That's your RA "Gold Standard" in operation. Student beware!

Looks like Reverend Rick has closed down his blog, which is too bad. Apparently he took this advice from the homosexual truck driver Levicoff:

Yes - give it up....Face it you got fucked....Life is too much fun to be bothered with this kind of crappola - it's time to move on, period.

http://www.degreediscussion.com/forums/v...753#p46241

Not bad advice, but it doesn't do much to help out others who have made or are about to make the same mistake. Leaving up the blog would have been a service to anyone googling NCU info.

And no doubt about it, there are plenty of others out there making the same mistake. Here are a couple more recent posts from other students who need to face that they "got fucked" by NCU too:

Northcentral Univeristy / Arizona / MBA
By Andy Kay - Milwaukee July 22, 2008
I had a terrible experience at NCU. they have a very non-interactive, non-committal method of communication & teaching. I lost $1600 and did not learn a thing. My mentor (professor) did not allow me to call him. He required that all my questions be sent to him in a Word document (versus email) and that they be sent to him using the very antiquated person to person messaging system that is available through the student portal. Mind you, this is NOT an email system. it is a message system. It takes one back 15 years in terms of messaging. Additionally, the reponses back from my prof were 1 word answers .. try better .. try the (limited/unhelpful) online library .. redo your phrasing here .. etc. other than a couple grammatical errors, I did not learn anything from my course and after trying to fight for a refund, simply just cancelled. I would really like to help anyone out that is thinking/planning to goto this course. I strongly recommend UC Irvine and other such univeristy's online courses. best,

Business
By Jonathan - California July 14, 2008
I had the unfortunate experience of having a couple of professors at Northcentral University (NCU) who didn't even minimally meet their minimum responsibilities as instructors. In a nutshell, they barely participated at all. The class in question, RSH890A-B, is the first research class that leads up to the doctoral dissertation. This is a critical class that sets the foundation for the final dissertation. The student attrition rate at this point in any doctoral program is high because of the difficulty. Active mentorship is absolutely critical to the success of the NCU student at this point. I suggest that a lack of active mentorship would result in a higher than normal student attrition rate. When my instructor's conduct was brought to the attention of the Dean of the school via the appeals process, she chose not to acknowledge and correct the instructor issues. Dean Turner's decision was to academically dismiss me instead. I started the RSH890A-B classes as a student in good academic and financial standing. I had a respectable GPA of 3.58. I had also prepaid the complete program.

http://www.guidetoonlineschools.com/nort...views.html

As you said Armando, student beware. If you don't want to have to face that you "got fucked," don't enroll at NCU.