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I attended UWA online for a couple semesters in summer/fall 2024 to obtain my second bachelors. I was interested in UWA due to the low price, rolling admissions, course offerings and accelerated class schedules. However I experienced numerous issues with the advising staff, professors, book store, and online systems in general. The program I'm in is not accurate to what they advertise on the website, and there are even classes listed in the program requirements that don't exist in an online format... Read More and are only offered on campus. There was never any clarification to address these, there are just 4 classes that can't be completed. My first semester here I experienced the worst course I've ever taken, a Microbiology class with an absent professor taught in an accelerated manor over 6 weeks. I was expected to complete at least 5-6 assignments a week, including in home labs and reading 5 chapters out of an extremely difficult textbook on top of exams, quizzes, case studies and additional assignments from each chapter. There were no lectures, no questions were answered by the instructor, and there were numerous mistakes in the content of the course including missing instructions and youtube videos in a different language. You can't make this stuff up. All of this was structured in what must have been an older format on Blackboard which made it very difficult to learn since there was a course required upon entrance to the program that taught you where everything in the courses were supposed to be located in their new system. It seemed lazy on the instructors part to not have updated to the new system, and I experienced that in multiple classes.
One of my semesters I ordered 2 books from the bookstore. After two weeks the order was somehow not fulfilled, and I had already obtained the books somwhere else. I made multiple attempts to receive an update and then cancel the order throughout this time. I finally got an email saying the order went through and was being shipped to me even after I canceled. I called to cancel the order again and was able to put a stop to this. However, the SECOND BOOK was then shipped to me and I had to work with them to initiate a refund which took over a month to receive.
Finally, in my most recent semester I experienced a technical issue on the university's end where I could not access the course content for the majority of the semester. They explained it was a "shell" and the class content just wasn't in there. I was denied the option to transfer into another section of the course and was offered no timeline on when the issue would be resolved. For a month I went back and forth with my advisor who showed no desire to escalate the situation and "hoped that the issue would be resolved soon". When I could finally access the course, halfway through an 8 week semester, it was blamed on Blackboard and I was told I could withdraw from the class but there would be no refund given or any semblance of a remedy. The Dean is non-existent, with no clear way to contact them and therefore no accountability or recourse when something goes wrong, which it did. I never received a response from the Dean when I did contact them about my issues. I have never experienced so many problems in higher education, and I feel like I've wasted my time and money. I will be withdrawing after this semester. Seems like poor management all around and I can't recommend any part of this school

I am a part-time student, working full-time in the IT field. I came back to finish my Bachelor's degree so that I could better advance my career. I am not interested in being one of the millions of Americans with College debts so I am paying for my classes as I go. The advisory team seems to have to perform some type of "one-off" because I am not taking financial aid, making me feel as if I were a second-class student. I have had multiple instructors in their IT departments tell the classes to "got... Read More to YouTube" and figure it out. They have some great tutorials on how to do this." I am not paying you $1100 per semester, to teach myself off of youtube. Instructors create discussion boards on the Blackboard system, instructing students to ask questions in the forum so that all the class can benefit. "This board will be monitored and I will respond when questions are asked". I posted questions multiple times for different teachers and got no response for the entire semester. They cut and paste their syllabi and do not change the due dates (Yet Plagiarism is supposed to be strictly prohibited within the University). So all assignments show as due years in the past. One instructor put out her syllabus with due dates, then posted an announcement on blackboard and sent an email both stating all assignments were due by the end of the Semester. Then held the class accountable for meeting the original dates on the syllabus. This is one of many Universities that have sold out their students for profit. The information taught in their management classes is outdated. Their Technology classes are self-taught at best, yet they do not respect or honor Professional IT certifications like the A+. I should have just gone to trade school.

I’ve been in the Alt-A M.Ed program at West Alabama for a year and was supposed to start my student teaching internship at the start of next semester (Fall ‘21), but have now been forced to delay until Spring ‘22 because the program advisor failed to sign my application (which I submitted over a month before it was due) by the deadline. I have been trying to contact said advisor since I received an email informing me that my signed app was still missing, but all I’ve gotten is an auto-reply saying... Read More they are out of the office for the next week. All of this is over a missing signature page... I’ve done everything I was responsible for well ahead of time (passed prerequisite courses, submitted the internship application, registered/paid for courses that coincide with the student teaching field work, etc) and 12 hours before the deadline I’m told my internship will be delayed until next year because of something my advisor failed to complete (which, again, was just signing her name on my app...).

"There's something about this place" is the long time motto of UWA. As a home away from home, UWA is a small close knit university where the faculty and staff take the time to get to know their students individually and collectively. They prepare students for the world in which they will enter, while simultaneously offering a memorable collegiate experience. In recent years, the university broadened its horizons to further diversify the university by establishing a program for international students.... Read More Initially noted for its Athletic Training Program, UWA has become known for its 100% online Education and Business programs because of its growing graduate and online enrollment population. Regardless of where a person is from, his race, color, creed, or religion, UWA is a place of preparation, learning, and family.

As a working, married, 39 year old, with 5 children, I feel that the pros of the online M.Ed. in Special Education program allows non-traditional students to further their education while still being in the workforce and raising families. The classrooms are very easy to navigate and the teachers are extremely helpful. I believe that not being in a traditional classroom would be my only con, only when material is difficult to grasp. I feel that it would be easier to understand if an instructor was... Read More actually there to explain verbally.