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Currently undertaking a PhD in Leadership Studies online and I have loved all my core leadership courses. However, the elective I chose was in business and with an existing MBA from a far superior school, I must say the business department at UC is at the absolute bottom of the barrel. Leadership is a joke and it is taught by woefully inadequate and highly disrespectful professors who treat students like they are naughty school children, approaching you with tremendous hostility as if you are out... Read More to do something wrong. This is while you learn absolutely nothing and I mean nothing because they confuse quality content with "busy work" and don't get me started on their group work expectations for online courses. Yes, you heard that correctly. The majority of good schools with hybrid and especially online programs would never do this but the UC business department of course does. You feel like you are literally being dragged 1000 miles in the wrong direction, all the while paying for these dreadful excuses for business courses. Unless you are not taking business and I can't speak to the quality of the other courses, bar the leadership courses which are good as detailed, you should NEVER go to this school. Remember, you get what you paid for. Put on your running shoes, take a deep breath and run as fast as you possibly can to ANY school but this one.

I graduated from this program in Mental Health Counseling but the program went drastically downhill after the change in administration in 2018. During that time many long term professors left the school and they hired many adjuncts of variable quality. Some professors were g re at and some very unprofessional. The administration would not reply to the emails, especially the dean. You have to find a practicum and internship in your own state or you will not graduate. It has been a great struggle,... Read More yet I did it. Don’t recommend it to others because the program is very disorganized, administration is poor and they change rules and expect actions every week

I've done multiple degrees, both online and in person. While slightly less rigorous than my in person degree, this degree is by far the best program out of the online options available. The classes are small and you call in to class every week so get face time with the professors. It is like being in class but you can wear your pajamas! I would recommend this school and program to anyone that is a professional working full time that does not want to sacrifice their academic education while still... Read More working full time. And for those who think this is a degree mill- there were multiple people kicked out of one of my classes this semester for cheating. If you don't do your work and do it well, the professors will hold you to an academic standard! So pleased that this university values its degrees and its students!

This is a mediocre school and master's counseling program, at best. The university has been advertising and growing too fast to keep up and most online students are treated like numbers, not actual paying students. The financial aid department is a terror and when calling in you will receive someone who basically just answers the phone but knows little about the complexities of the system. For that you will need to email the financial aid department and then you will receive mostly vague answers,... Read More if you are lucky. Most have terrible grammar and do not even know their own website information. If I had it to do again I would have chosen another CACREP university that offers online degrees. My experience at this one was not worth the aggravation of the red tape system and the fact that the school cares so little about the online graduate students.

I started the DBA program two semesters ago. Till now the the experience has been very good. They are incorporating better systems and making adjustments to their programs. The DBA program is tough. If you are serious and want to learn, then this is the best program for you.
In case of improvements, it would be helpful to attract students with corporate experience and know how of their field. The college needs to connect with companies for higher recognition (perhaps through their students). This... Read More will increase the overall quality.
All instructors are hired with terminal degrees, which is excellent. But some of them lack basic industry knowledge. Therefore instructors with actual corporate experience should be preferred and not just directly after getting a doctorate. In this way, they could instill the right thinking in their students.

This is basically an accredited diploma mill. Classes are not rigorous. Multiple times I heard that we would be learning more in a full semester than in an 8-week format. The online classes primarily consist of instructors reading PowerPoints. There is very limited student interaction except from a few discussion board responses or random comments in online chat during class sessions. The institution advertises different specialty areas to prepare for teaching content in a college. However, areas... Read More like English and math (at least) are geared to high school or middle school teachers. The content is not what one should expect from graduate level work. There's no literary criticism in English; there's nothing calculus based in math. The course descriptions for topics courses in those fields make it sound like multiple content areas could be covered. Instead very limited, very basic topics are covered, repeatedly. Student concerns--I've raised mine--are not taken seriously. It's an easy way to get initials after your name, but it's also incredibly vacuous.

I am currently pursuing the PhD in Information Technology. I am well on my way towards completing it, but it has been quite a journey so far. I concur with one poster who states that the professor(s) may go missing for days at a time, because this has been my experience in more than one class. The biggest challenge that youll face is outdated information that will sometimes leave you confused and stumped. However, I just post my work to the best of my understanding. I feel that if the professors... Read More have the audacity to give me a poor mark for their mistakes, then off to the dean we go! Surprisingly, many of the courses are inundated with labs not expected in most PhD programs, but I really like it. I guess that the theory classes will come later. Dont expect a lot of hand-holding like they tend to do at a for-profit PhD program. For better or for worse, your success is ALL on YOU! I can see myself right now walking across the stage receiving my degree, never having to waste my breath thanking ANYBODY AT ALL! However, its still a good program and I have a good idea how to proceed. I pay for the course out of pocket they are just that cost effective! Id say that if you know that you can work independently towards your degree, youll never find a better program than the University of the Cumberlands!

I was really excited to start work on my dream degree (PhD. in IT) from a well establish university, with online and ground schools and with reasonable tuition. Unfortunately, after I took two classes, I dropped out of the program. While working towards my doctorate in information technology. Some of the things that occurred in both of these classes include: 1) Days before any communications from the professor. 2) Professor went missing for 5+ days with no contact whatsoever. 3) Professor posted... Read More the wrong syllabus, but since the professor didn't check in to class for days, we couldn't get the correct syllabus and didn't know what our assignments were.. 4) Professor posted the wrong assignment, but again, since the professor was so out of touch, was unable to get the correct assignment for days. 5) Professor admonished me when I brought up my concerns about the above problems.

When I began the program at UC, it was great. It has a few bumps here and there, but the cost and online schedule made it completely worth it. And then the administration changed. Suddenly, there were new rules in the middle of semesters without warning, the new person doing the scheduling got the semesters all messed up and despite this being my last semester, the graduation requirements have suddenly changed. Until the administration change I had a 4.0 I had worked HARD for. The first day of the... Read More new semester we were informed - after it was too late - that there are now new IT requirements. I cannot get the equipment ordered in time, so I will be docked a quarter of my full grade. I likely won't be able to graduate. Most of the good, full time professors have quit since the admin change and have been replaced with part time professors who are unresponsive and don't seem to care and/or don't seem to quite know what they're doing. What an expensive nightmare of a mistake this turned out to be.

From my experience, the academic side is awesome. I felt I had a decent quality education. However before you jump on this bandwagon, let me share with you my frustrations with the institution. Teachers take their time grading assigned work. There were times when I'm going into week three/four before the first assignment was graded. This is petty but frustration if you are trying to keep up with your grades. Syllabus' are not always correct. Therefore it is hard to exactly know what is expected from... Read More you. For example, the syllabus indicates a 1300 total point course. However there are only 1150 worth of points available in,blackboard. It seemed I had to ask the instructors several times how many points are available. Sometimes the instructor has a different total point calculation than what is listed in blackboard. This may be petty but if you are borderline with getting an A or B, your final grade can easily be affected My academic advisor was horrible. Every email/phone response from her was "I dunno...check with "blah blah blah... I would check with the reference, nope check with another person. Usually takes three or four tries to get the right person. Do not expect a timely response to emails neither. All emails usually take about 3 to 5 days to respond. Again petty stuff but frustrating. These small inconvienances add up (to me anyway)Almost made me transfer. I felt disrespected as a student. All in all, UC needs to upgrade their customer service. I would gladly trade a few dollars per credit for an academic advisor that would get me a correct answer to my question in a timely fashion. From all my dealings in the criminal justice program,the only one that seemed to have his stuff together was Dr. B. He is very top notch!!!! Much respect to him.

Academics are really good but the DSO and the chat service agents services are horrible. The DSO in cpt department of international students is very irresponsible. They delay applications and even the chat service agents cannot help because everything is handeled by a single person. If the flow of applications is more, more people should be taking care of the applications. But being slacking in work is not at all appreciated at least the status is to be informed but even the status is also not updated... Read More or notified. Any emergency or help needed just stay away from this university. They are least bothered and management is horrible .