Worst experience, ever!!! they guaranteed that all of my tuition was covered by my loans and grant funds, only to learn that was a lie. Now they have forwarded my case to collections and refuse to transfer my credits to my new school! Money-hungry!!! Not concerned with student needs only their bottom line!

AI online- Pittsburgh was the worst investment I could have ever made. The education is a JOKE! The teacher dont seem to be real they all use the same programs and follow the same path. There is no support system you will change counselors about 7 times within a two quarter time period. Please dont waste your time and money on a poor education with no ending in sight!

The other reviewers are right in that it is expensive, about 17k a year. It is notable that if you take classes online that you do not have access to the computers, software and hardware that traditional students do, so that can add thousands of dollars to your bill.

As for the hand-holding and "they didn't tell me about fees" comments, well, it's college. I don't think you should be expected to not have to work and figure out how to run your own life and the way to get the most bang for your buck. The negative reviewers couldn't spell or form sentences either, so I don't expect them to do well.

Most of the teachers are top in their field and all are practicing artists as well as teachers. Some are good, some bad as with any school. I noticed that an overwhelming number view the online portion of their class load as an add-on and don't spend much time with the class or like to answer questions. There are, of course, really great teachers too.

The delivery of the content is a proprietary system that is astonishingly good and well thought out. It is nothing like other online classes I've seen, it is completely interactive. The best thing I can say about AAU is that it is a real university where classes can be taken online. That's opposed to what most people think of when they think of online schools, usually a way for a lesser school to just push something out there to make money, like Phoenix and the like. This is a real university, with somewhere around 9,000 students on their campus in San Francisco and the online version is the same top notch school just delivered in a different format. It's not for people looking to just get a degree like one might at schools like Devry, AIU, or Kaplan; this is for people who want to become artists for real, taught by real artists. I'd be embarrassed to tell someone I was in an online school if I went to most, but not this one. It's not an online school, but a school that happens to teach online as well.

Yes, I love the school, being an online student with their online tools and tuition was the best solution out there for me... but sadly I'm force to quit and not only quit it also my credit will be screw thanks to collections services.

But how this happened? well if you are not in top of financial and the cost of your classes, you will be in the same situation as I am right now!

When I register for the first time my financial advisor told me that everything is cover, then my academic advisor told me to register for 4 classes, well it result that the 4 classes cost more of what my financial aid can cover around $980 more!! But the system wont say it! it actual allows you to register and doesn't give you any message at all that you are out of balance. Then 2 months after you register (now when is impossible to withdraw any class in order to be on balance) they charge you the balance and not only that give me 5 days to pay at least $300 (that I dont have) so they will not close my classes... so now I have to pay them for the full tuition of classes that I never finish or got the credit for it!

Thanks $8,8000 drawn the toilet. Thanks a lot AAU, and what is more sad is that their president Dr. Elisa Stephens (AAU President) wrote in a blog a few weeks ago: The Heart and Soul of Our Nation's Economic Recovery... very inspiring but she really mean it? and as you see am not the only one! And sad part is that i did great in the school, but Im force to leave it, because is impossible to come up with that amount of money in such short time.

I am taking online classes at AAU and I plan on dropping out of AAU by the end of the semester not because I dislike the classes and teachers but because they are disorganized and expensive. I am mostly frustrated with my advisor and the financial aid office. I currently took out loans and I am receiving pell grant but this semester I feel the numbers don't add up and they are overcharging me compared to last semester and they told me today I owe them more money because my loans and financial aid wouldn't cover everything it just feels like a scam.