Baker College Online Reviews
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On-line vs. traditional classes
School recommended by
Keith
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July 10, 2010
5/5 people found this review helpful
I recently graduated from Baker with my BBA in Management (Magma cum laude). I returned to school after a 25 year hiatus. I liked the on-line environment however I did find the math classes (accounting & stats) more difficult to complete. I did the stats class in person at there Owosso campus.
The flexibilty of on-line let me travel due to work. While online is not for everyone I felt that overall Baker did a good job. There were a few instructors who were not that good (isn't that at every college)but overall most of them were good and I learned a lot.
You have to be disciplined to do on-line and be ready to give up your free time. If I do go for my masters I have decided to do it in person.
Learn More about Baker College OnlineBaker College online website didn't show the information of the tuition
School not recommended by
rsk105
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June 29, 2010
7/7 people found this review helpful
Baker College Online website didn't show the information of the tuition.
If you ask the staff member of the business office from the Baker College Online, he/she may tell you that the tuition will be incresed.
But, if tuition increment won't be announced by the top officer, how the students will TRUST Baker?
Bad students
School not recommended by
Sheely
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June 25, 2010
4/5 people found this review helpful
There are some bad online students,these students always want to be a team leader, so that if your class has a "Group Assignment", these students will try to control you.
Recently I had a class "Group Assignment", my team leader is just like that, and she just graduated from high school.
Fired the instructor
School recommended by
Dean
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June 09, 2010
13/13 people found this review helpful
For all Baker College Online Students: Recently I have received so much complaint about the online "JavaScript" class.
I went to the class online, found this instructor didn't try very hard to solve the students' problems.And this instructor's lecture only one page for each week. That's really ridiculous. It shows the instructor is too lazy, because there are only 8 people in this class.
So, we, Baker College decided to fire this instructor. Thanks.
Excellent School and back for more!
School recommended by
Kamlynn
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June 08, 2010
6/7 people found this review helpful
I graduated from Baker Online with a BBA in Management/Minor Marketing (Summa Cum Laude). I did the program 100% online. I had all excellent instructors, except one. I think that's pretty darn exceptional. I loved the online format and the quick pace of the classes.
Online classes are not a cake walk and frankly I found them more challenging than a traditional classroom setting. They require time management, effort and dedication. I never had a problem with receiving my books in a timely manner and I can't say enough about their tech support. They were incredible!!
I've returned to Baker to complete an MBA in Finance and I'm so glad I did. They are far superior than any online school. If you're expecting Baker instructors to accept your excuses for late work or for being unprepared it won't happen. Your experience is dependent on your effort.
Poor Instruction
School not recommended by
Lillian
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June 06, 2010
4/6 people found this review helpful
After having been at Baker and established myself as an excellent student, I submitted a paper and only earned a B+ on it. I thought I had followed the instructions of the professor. When I asked where I had gone wrong, he replied that, "I apparently ignored his instructions." I was angry at the accusation since I thought that I had absolutely followed them.
I wrote to the administrator and she backed the professor up, which was exactly what I expected. I had submitted a pre-approval paper and nowhere was there an indication that there was any kind of a problem other then to elaborate, so I naturally felt that I was doing ok.
One of the comments was that I didn't head the paragraphs like "other students" had. So I was being compared to others instead of graded on the merits of content of my own work, accompanied by the fact that I thought I was doing the right thing, not having been told that it was wrong.
This was an insulting experience and the administrator wasn't a disappointment because she did just what I thought she would - and that was nothing. My grade remains therefore and the experience has left me with a very bad view of Baker as a result of condescending remarks and lack of effort to even do a review.
Online Student
School recommended by
Terrie Jezierski
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May 31, 2010
4/4 people found this review helpful
I have been an online student for 4 years, I would and wouldnt recommend Baker for online studies. First of all, online is for students who need the flexability, well 5 out of 7 days and a ton of homework per class is a lot. I also attended classes on campus and there you get out early, homework is a minimum compared to online.
You could never take full-time online classes and work full-time unless you dont want to see your family. Its very stressful, if they lightened the load for online homework and was a little more flexiable for when you turned your homework in then I would recommened it.
Excellent online program!
School recommended by
Diana
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May 03, 2010
6/10 people found this review helpful
I really enjoyed my time at Baker. Sure they had minor issues- Books that changed a week before class, which is more of an issue of you bought used through Amazon :). But overall these were small and this happens at other colleges as well.
I also appreciate how hard they word to get the latest technology and worked to change them. They also worked work you if this caused you any problems. I graduated 2009 with a Web Development degree and I appreciate their Bakers commitment to professionalism and respect for each student.
The classes were fun and informative. I will agree with other posts on the JavaScript class and C++ was not my favorite, but overall it was a very good experience./
Color yourself lucky of you take a class with: Wes Sweeter, Brandon Love and Chris Davis, just a few of my favorite instructors you can tell, love what they do!
Promise
School recommended by
Baker College 's NEW Dean
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April 22, 2010
10/20 people found this review helpful
Hi,
I am the new hired dean for Baker college online, I have access for any online classes, and I will take a look at the online "JavaScript" class, if the instructor really did the bad things for our baker students, I promise that this instructor will be no longer hired.
Thanks.
Great School
School recommended by
Thompson
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April 21, 2010
3/5 people found this review helpful
I have read several of the negative reviews and while everyone is entitled to their opinion, I must say that my experience with Baker was great.
I recently completed my BBA in corporate HR-accelerated program, and most of this was done while being full time in the US Army deployed to Iraq, and stationed in South Korea on a hardship duty assignment.
My advisor for the military was excellent always there for me, and went above and beyond to ensure that I stayed on track.
Everyone of my Teachers were proffesional and helpful ( some more than others) but all met or exceeded my expectations.
I completed my degree while deployed and it was very very very challenging to do so, but with the help of the staff at Baker, I graduated a month before I retired from active duty after 21 years of service. great school proud to be an alumni and would highly recommend this school.
Bad Investment
School not recommended by
Ronald
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April 04, 2010
7/11 people found this review helpful
This is by far the worst school I have ever attended. Their teaching styles are a joke. The classes I have taken basically are self taught. You read the book and learn on your own. There is very little interaction from the teacher.
I took a javascript course and had a hard time on an assignment. I aksed the teacher for clarification on the problem. His only reply was to do a web search to find the problem. You are paying these people top dollar and they do nothing to teach you.
Save yourself tons of money and just buy the book and forget Baker Online. They are a huge waste of money.
Oh, and if you have a problem with a teacher, forget calling to have the problem fixed. The administration staff does not feel the need to look into problems. I had a teacher that did not grade any of my assignments until after the last day of class. I had no idea if I was doing the work correctly the whole time. I called to have the problem fixed and even talked to the dean. They did nothing to fix the problem.
This school would not even be wirth going to if they paid you to attend.
Just understand the term Accelerated!!
School not recommended by
joe blow
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April 03, 2010
4/6 people found this review helpful
Overall I would say baker is not a bad school for online courses. I have been going online for two years now and some of the teachers are not the best but the classes are six weeks and are a lot of work. For me my schedule at work leaves me pretty worn out and the accelerated courses are just not for me with all the work you must do in one week.
BBA - Accounting
School recommended by
Mike
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March 17, 2010
9/11 people found this review helpful
After having completed my BBA (all online) I would highly recommend Baker's Accounting program to any responsible individual. The accounting curriculum is the most purposed and certainly the most extensive I was able to find of all the online schools.
Online courses offer much freedom, but on the same hand require an equal amount of self-discipline. In short, what you put in to the program is exactly what you'll get out of it. Some of the complaints I've read I would certainly take with a grain of salt, although Baker, like ALL online educational institutions, do have some of the typical problems.
My program was filled with a wide variance of instructor personalities, but all were helpful. In general, I did find that those with a Masters degrees were much more involved than those with Doctorates, but all were certainly adequate to outstanding.
The one drawback that I experienced was a complete absence of video lectures, with the exception of the Stats course, which was outstanding.
For reference, I graduated at age 50 in Dec 08 with a 4.0 GPA and currently manage a private CPA firm of ~35 people.
Baker Makes False Promises
School not recommended by
Dayna D
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February 23, 2010
11/12 people found this review helpful
I attended Baker College for the past 2 years as a Medical Laboratory Tech student. In that time period the MLT students went through FIVE program directors, as they would all quit after several weeks. We also went through 3 program Deans. It has been completely inconsistent.
Also, we had next to nothing for lab supplies. We are a laboratory major! Sitting through almost 5 hours of lecture with no lab is absolutely ridiculous!
Finally, the biggest problem of all. I am finished with my classes in the program and was suppose to begin my externship in the beginning of January. It is almost March and the school has completely failed to provide any of the students with a site. Without the externship there is no graduation! We even offered to find our own sites and were shot down by the school.
The school is more concerned about how we "represent" Baker when/if we get an externship.
Future potential students, please look into another college. I would not wish my situation upon anyone.
If you're willing to do the work, the school will work!
School recommended by
Kate R
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February 18, 2010
8/11 people found this review helpful
I'm currently attending Baker Online, and have been for the past 3 years working on my Bachelor's of Business Administration in Accounting. I've read some other reviews that bash the school's policies and teachers, but from what I've read, you can run into the same problems at numerous different institutions. Since I started back in 2007, things have gotten better. The system outages are much less frequent and the instructors are more versed in the class topics. Yes, some instructors are not very involved in the learning process or they answer your questions with another question (which is unhelpful), but the majority of them are great and are willing to help you so long as you put the effort in. I've definitely learned a lot (I had no prior experience of any kind in Accounting when I started taking classes) and now have recommendations/references from instructors with Doctorate degrees and real job experience in Accounting. I would absolutely recommend this school - 100% online classes allow me to work full-time and attend classes full-time.
School Resources
School recommended by
April Cole
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February 14, 2010
5/7 people found this review helpful
I'm currently a student at Baker College Clinton Township and will transfer to Port Huron nest year. I'm finding that tutoring is impossible to get these days. In the last ten days I have tried to get a appointment in the writing center for help and they have been booked up. Lab is the same way, when i go to study there is one skull and not enough materials for everyone there. I think they might be enrolling a lot of students because everyone is going back to school. But they do not have enough resources for all of us. I enrolled here because the offered flexability. I should not have to compete for a education. I think they are just thinking of all the money there making for each student. but not how there going to accomidate for all of them. I'm starting to get angry. The learning center has become a joke on helping
This Place Is A JOKE!
School not recommended by
Eric L
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February 02, 2010
7/10 people found this review helpful
Teachers: Not intersted,limited interaction
Advisors: Unreachable
Coursework: Rediculous, quality of learning is laughable
Classmates: Nonexistant
Overall Experience: TERRIBLE
Disputed a grade that could be solved by simple math. The dispute lasted 3 months and the "Academic Judiciary Council" sided with the instructor. WOW!!! Looking for another school, ASAP!
The teacher's attitude is worse
School not recommended by
Crysta Heart
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December 25, 2009
9/13 people found this review helpful
Recently I dropped the class WEB 211 "Introduction to Script programming Wes Sweater", the teacher said that he has been teaching this course for 15 years, he said that he may meet me again.
I will say here, that I will NEVER go back to Baker college again.
Teacher doesn't want to change the book
School not recommended by
Kathy Chu
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November 07, 2009
16/18 people found this review helpful
Currently I enrolled this college, in oder to get my B.S. degree in web development. What makes me disapointed is that I took the web 211 class, an instrctor uses the book which most students don't like that, because each chapter's exercises don't match the examples that the chapter want to teach you, sometimes you need the extra effort to solve these programs(exercises). This makes some students ( alomost new to the Javascript)hard to learn. We suggested the instructor to change the book which is suitable for the beginners, the instructor just ignored this.
Do not attend this school for the Sciences (Computer Science/Web Development)
School not recommended by
Niki
on
October 29, 2009
22/25 people found this review helpful
Here is my review of Baker, Well I am a student who already holds a Bachelors Degree in Engineering and went back to school via Baker for a Bachelors in Web Development because I wanted to learn, now that is where the irony comes in. I didn't need this degree, because an Engineering Degree qualifies me for jobs in this area as long as I can show a portfolio.
The first thing that surprised me is that all there is to Baker College is that you read textbooks, homework is from the same text book and that's it. First, to succeed online you have to be motivated and dedicated, so if you have that motivation why cant you learn on your own? What I find is that during the six weeks, you are too busy completing homework that you may not learn much. I can see how other programs may work out but in Technology classes its not easy to grasp the full concept if you have to keep worrying about turning homework in, answering discussion questions, participation etc. So, that's where the joke is on me, I enrolled to learn but spend less time learning and more time just getting homework in.
Many of the teachers they have are not proficient in the classes they instruct and this comes out in the way they respond to class questions. As a result many of them are not active in the participation and depend on the students to teach each other and answer other students questions, and ironically these are the instructors that grade the hardest and have no grace period with assignments. its like they are trying to make up for their lack of credentials by being overly difficult in grading. Also the textbooks that Baker College uses are out to date and that's a no-no with programming classes. They have you buy current software and then have you buy a textbook for the outdated version of the software and now you have a mismatched book, and still no sympathy from the instructor.
Now, why do I need to attend Baker College when I can buy a more up to date and current text book, one that has a good market feedback and join one of those free programming communities. Now, I can focus on learning and stop killing myself to meet Baker College ridiculous schedule. After all you have to teach yourself at Baker College and many instructors are not conscientious of that. Instead they tell you that if you cant learn that way then taking classes online is not for you. I mean come on!!
My advice to you, if you don't need a degree don't attend Baker College. The forced assignments will not make you learn as that is what I thought. If you are thinking about Web Development you only need a good portfolio anyway which Baker College will not make you get. You should have seen the crappy website that I made after one class that they wanted me to add to my portfolio, what a joke. You ca do better than Baker, expect little help and expect that 50% of the instructors are probably less knowledgeable than YOU in the subject that they instruct. Free online communities, here I come!
OH, FYI, I have a straight 4.0 so my concerns are honest and has nothing to do with my inability to excel at baker!
Baker online not worth the money.
School not recommended by
Ronald
on
October 13, 2009
19/23 people found this review helpful
Baker online college is not worth the money. Fist of all, some of the teachers don't do anything. I have had a few teachers at Baker that should be working somewhere else. They can't decide what they want as far as course work nor can they respond to emails within a timely manner. Baker policy is that a teacher must post grades by midnight on monday of the following week. That doesn't happen. I have had grades posted 4 weeks late by teachers. Don't bother calling to complain either because the college will not enforce their own rules on teachers. Secondly, the classes are a joke. You basically pay the college to give you credit for reading a book and doing most of the work by yourself. My teachers did not interact and teach me anything. I learned it all from the book. I would not reccomend that anyone use this school. It's not worth the money.
Teacher Policy
School not recommended by
Richard Smith
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October 05, 2009
15/18 people found this review helpful
Baker College seems it doesn't have "policy" for teachers, teachers can not paricipate in the class during the whole online 6 weeks still get paid.
Remember, students paid momey to school, school paid momey to the instructors, instructors should work hard than students, in order to teach your "good" student.
Teachers should welcome students' challenge, if teachers are afraid, that means the teachers are not knowlegable, make students grade from A to C, that's ridiculous!
School recommended by
Joseph
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October 01, 2009
11/12 people found this review helpful
Baker is like any other College you make it as hard or as easy as you want. Most of the instructors are great but like any other college you get some that are not. I have attended Baker for one year and so far I would say I have had a good experience. Online learning is not for everyone think about it before you make a choice and go online.
You get out, what you put in.
School recommended by
Tom MW.
on
September 24, 2009
18/19 people found this review helpful
I have had a postive experience with Baker and I have three more classes to finish my MBA. Baker is fully accredited and like any other school you get out, what you put in. I saw one comment about the teaching staff not being good and it was pretty obvious that this person is not familiar with this form of education since most instructors teach at multiple online institutions. My brother is getting his PhD from Cappella and we have some of the same instructors. The courses are not cake walks and sometimes it is hard to juggle life, work and school. Classes run for six weeks and I am usually locked down away from the wife and kids during that time. I have used all my text books and I keep them in my office so I can reference them for work. Baker offers an affordable and sound education.
June 2009 Baker Online MBA Graduate
School recommended by
Dave
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July 01, 2009
20/23 people found this review helpful
I graduated from the Baker Online MBA program in June of 2009. The program had taken just over 2 years to complete. The entire program, professors, and content were exceptional. The program was challenging and time intensive but very manageable. I would recommend the program to anyone searching for a very good and respected MBA program that is also a great value.
