Northcentral University
School info
2.8
Overall Quality
Reputation
2.8
Food
2.5
Clubs
2.3
Facilities
2.9
Internet
3.6
Location
3.5
Opportunities
2.8
Safety
3
Social
2.2
Happiness
2.8
Basic Information
Location
- Prescott Valley, AZ
Institution Overview
- Public/Private: Private online university
- Established: 1996
- Founder: Donald Hecht
Academic information
Degree Courses
- 2
- 116
Key Area
- Faculty Research Awards
- Faculty Research Support Award
- Microfunding Opportunities
- Professional Development Funding
- Research Publications and Presentations
Student and Staff Numbers
- Students: 10,093
- Postgraduates: At Northcentral University, the enrollment includes 5,191 full-time students and 6,387 part-time students, but the specific number of postgraduate students is not explicitly separated. However, given that the university awards a significant number of graduate degrees, we can estimate that a substantial portion of these students are postgraduate. - Full-time: 5,191 - Part-time: 6,387 Since the exact breakdown between undergraduate and postgraduate is not provided, we can only give the total enrollment range which includes both: - Total enrollment: 11,578 students
Notable Alumni
- Jim Bakker
- Tammy Faye Bakker
- Gary Dop
- Sara Groves
- Dallas Holm
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Good reviews
Overall 4.5
Awesome School.
Overall 4.3
None.
Overall 4.2
The true is that this was a good school, but this school never provides too many clear curriculum and assignments. They also have too many bad school administrators and professors who are terrible and need to be fired. This school need to allow students to switch professors, advisors and school administrators.
Overall 4.1
N/A
Overall 4.1
This is a online school. Rated in top 20 online schools, its actually number 12.
Bad reviews
Overall 0.9
Run for the hills. no quality control at all. It is amazing they didn't lose their ACBSP or regional accreditation yet.
Overall 0.9
It is an online school.Most of the time you have to teach yourself from the book. there feedback is useless for students to learn.their syllabus is very confusing and is not clear enough. wasting my money and time for nothing.all they care about money.The mentor send their students paper to a machine to grade it.
Overall 1
This is an all online school. You teach yourself and most of the assignments are based on articles not actual academic information. The professor never reach out to you during the week. Assignment instructions are so vague but professors feel that they can dock you down for not including information not asked for in the assignment. Horrible/avoid
Overall 1
It's a school where you teach yourself and do a lot of writing. Professors don't really do anything. Financial aid/academic advisors do not know what they are doing. Professors and financial aid/academic advisors sometimes have to be emailed more than once to get a response. Don't expect to be treated like you matter.
Overall 1.2
NCU Online is worthless. Administration, professors, academic advisers all UNHELPFUL. Financial Aid was the ONLY helpful department to me. Cant switch any of them without approval. Im stuck here, but you dont have to be. Run!!
Overall 1.2
It is an online campus. You teach yourself, and no student support services. Constant changes make it more difficult. When you get to the dissertation stage, you really do not know what is going on. I would not go here if I knew in advance the real deal.
Overall 1.3
The school changes degree requirements and tuition annually.The "mentors" provide poor feedback except to read a particular book on the subject or the NCU handbook for guidance. Most "mentors" I have had taught at other online schools and had a diffucult time understanding how NCU operates. Standard answer give-check the handbook. Poor school for $
Overall 1.4
No physical campus. Very difficult to communicate with if you have problem areas. Tuition increases every year, with no real improvemnts. Most of the time it is difficult to talk to a person. You leave a message and you probably will get a return call. Student expectations are high but school output is low. Take your money elsewhere.
Overall 1.4
rated #12 in the "education level" of mentor...which does not necessarily equate into a #12 level educational experience.
Overall 1.5
Less impressed the longer I remain. Syllabi were cutpasted and not correct, one of the worst instructors I have ever had, and an advisor who is rarely available. They rely predominately on 5-7 page papers as their learning activity to assess learning every week---that gets very old after a year.