Virginia College Online Reviews

By Cara H - Austin on October 7, 2008

I agree with some of the previous posts. Many of my professors have been responsive and assist me in a timely manner. I have had several though that don't respond until 2 weeks later & seem like they have more things to do besides help you. Not to mention, they make excuses when they do not meet your questions or concerns adequately. If you have a technical or financial issue, good luck on getting any help at all. Trying to call and get in contact with anyone for anything is difficult, if not impossible. You have to call or be transferred several times to get someone who can actually assist you with the issues you have. Many of the staff you attempt to call do seem unorganized, ignorant, and just incredibly rude when you finally do get someone. While I am almost done with my courses for my degree, this whole process has been so incredibly frustrating, irritating, and aggravating. I highly reccomend looking elsewhere for online courses. I am not sure if all online courses are this hideous and unorganized, but it is terrible if you have taken on campus classes before and try to deal with the staff at this college.

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Intermediate Keyboarding AOM 1020

By Mrs. Jemison - Verbena, Al on September 26, 2008

Hello everyone. I just finished with the summer quarter. It was exhausting, but I made it. My keyboarding instructor was amazing between the two of us we got the job done. The email were on point. When I would send her an email it would not be long before I would receive a response. I passed this class and I am excited. I had to take it for the second time. It was not because I did not know the material. It was because I did not have the proper software for this class so I was told. I sat her and watched my grade go down the tubes. I did not do that this time. The school provided us with a temporary file in order to get through the class. I don't know if the rest of the class benefited from that software but I know I did. I practically went from an "F" to a high "B" overnight. I was up day and night trying to get my grade to come. I spent most of the semester trying to figure out why I could not do most of my assignments. I had to keep calling tech support and GDP. I believe I stayed on the phone with them most of the semester but it payed off. I am just about ready to wrap up my associates program up in a bag. I am working on my last year of school. I plan to go back in for the B.S. degree. It is too far away to tell right now. It depends on how I feel when I am done. My decision will be based off of two factors. My student account and my home life. My ultimate goal for this degree will be to enter into the AIT program and work on getting my nursing home administrators license. We will keep our fingers crossed.

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ehh..

By Anonymous - pensacola on September 12, 2008

I enjoy the online classes VERY much. I just finished up my first quarter at VCO and so far the teachers have been very good. The biggest problem I've experienced is not with the online school itself, but the people actually running the school. When I decided to attend VCO I had a man contact me from the school to help me through the process of registering. He was VERY helpful.. gave me so many reasons Virginia College Online was a great school and so right for me and blah, blah, blah... everytime I would email him, he replied almost immediately.. same with phone messages. After classes began it was almost impossible to get ahold of him! Like he got me to sign up, collected his commision for "recruiting me", and then said screw her. I decided to change my major, that was a mistake. I sent an email to one of the deans requesting the change and he sent me a bunch of forms to print out. He said I needed to fill them out, sign them, and mail them back to him.. and to expedite the process I could also fax him a copy. "No problem," I thought, and did it the same day... Well I mailed it to him over a week ago and still haven't heard anything. And for some reason they never get my faxes, although other people do with no problems.. Anyway, so I faxed it to him like 7 times. I finally emailed the guy yesterday asking if he received anything from me and he never responded. Also I requested a letter to verify my enrollment to the school as a full time student to give to my employer and I got a letter stating I was only half time, which is wrong. The people that work in the office seem extremely unorganized, unintelligent, AND ignorant. The communication is TERRIBLE! When you finally DO get ahold of someone, they act like its such a pain in the butt to answer your question. I really wish I wouldn't have signed up at the first college I saw.. I got financial aid from them and everything so I'm pretty much locked in. If I would've known that my local community college offered online classes, I would've chose them instead.

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By NO NAME - AUSTIN, TX on June 10, 2008

I took classes online with VCO. The course work was ok, however, the majority of the students did not seem prepared for college level work. This created extra work when placed into forced group assignments. There were many who either did not participate at all but still got the grade of those that did the work; or the ones who did participate but not at college level thus bringing down the grade of others in the group.

Then there is the policies...they change them without giving any notice - no postings, emails or anything. When you are trying to utilize a program and have started the registration for it only to have it removed without any notice that it was going to be removed and no appeal process, leaves a bad feeling.

The professors were ok but always seemed to have other things to do and many were not responsive to email within a reasonable time to enable completion of work assignments.

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New student

By Shayla - Kent, WA on April 10, 2008

I will start my studies in the AA degree program of accounting on May 12th 2008 the admissions process has been great the course outline has most all of the work experience that you will need to work in the field. I am excited to start and in about 2yrs ( i have previous college credits) I will have my AA in accounting.

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