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Lamar University's online counseling program is a joke. The professors and IAs (graders) are unprofessional and unresponsive. You feel like you are being ghosted by your own faculty. Advisers never answer emails, professors never answer emails, IAs never answer emails. Grading is completely random and based solely on your IA's discretion and style of grading. Do not expect any feedback on why you received the grade that you did. Papers and assignments are rarely marked, just given a grade. You also... Read More get the sneaking suspicion that most of the time , your assignments are not even read. The IAs seem to pretty much be on the lookout for citation errors and seem to care very little about content. The professors' lectures are lackluster and uninformative. I have straight A's in the program and have attended exactly 1 webinar.

I suggest those looking for a school to attend to go elsewhere. This school makes promises to get students to enroll, once they do those promises are broken. Prior to enrolling, I specifically asked about the residency (two, week long sessions) and was assured that notice of residency would be given in plenty of time to make arrangements and a block of rooms in the dorms were reserved for the online students. These rooms would be shared with another student of the same sex. Upon finishing my fourth... Read More class (requirement for residency) I found out that students have to book a hotel room (the school reserves some, but the rate is $100+ per night) and notice is not given. It is up to the student to search for the information on the school's website. The instructors and IA's refuse to give any assistance to the students. The only communication is email and professors and IA's take an excessive amount of time to respond (days - week), if they respond at all. According to one professor, they do write their own syllabus or choose the required texts. They wait for the syllabus and text information to be released by the school, upon start of the class. If you let either the professor or the IA know of a mistake in their writing, they begin deducting points from assignments but will not tell you what "mistake" was made. If you call the school to get information, you might as well be talking to a brick wall. The employees will transfer you without consent, talk over you, and refuse to listen. This is after waiting on hold for an excessive amount of time. There is zero learning done at this school. It is up to the student to self-teach, of which I am fine with, but why am I paying over $800 per class to teach myself? The professors and IA's expect the students to know everything, if I knew everything I wouldn't be attending school. The school is nothing but a diploma mill that should lose accreditation and be investigated for fraud. The employees you talk to when gathering information will make promises and tell you what sounds good to get you to enroll. This school wants nothing but your money. Avoid enrolling, don't waste your time.

Lamar university has given me the option to be able to stay on task with daily life and be able to obtain more knowledge, this is something that I have been passionate about since I began to work with juvenile. Clinical mental health will allow me to gain more knowledge on mental health issue around the nation but for me it will allow me to be a helping hand in which I can start with our children. The kids are our future and we as a nation need to start now on changing things around, get away from... Read More the historical issues of this nation and fix it for tomorrow. Lamar University gives me the option to stay on track with my career and be able to learn at the same time it was the answer I needed. I would advise anyone to take the time out and look at this school as an option and open that next chapter in your educational book!

The online Master's program that I am attending through Lamar University is very accessible for a working mother like myself. It provides a strong academic challenge through their classes while still providing support in the form of weekly chats with the professor and a rigid academic calendar to outline the assignments that need to be done in order to succeed. This outline allows me to be successful at my job and have time with my family since I can schedule the time to complete my school work at... Read More the beginning of every week. The professors and instructional aides are extremely accessible through email and quick to reply. Their feedback on assignments are thorough so that you can always improve on the next one.