Liberty University

I've been practicing law for 20 years and am currently part of the executive of a public agency. I checked out a number of online Masters programs and then decided on LU to develop my executive leadership skills. The eight week classes are more rigorous than I expected. They do a great job of blending Christian worldview with the academics. I highly recommend LU online if you are serious about learning and want to start and finish your program. They do indeed focus on making Champions for Christ.... Read More Great job Liberty!

The college is as good as any other college out there. Some of the professors are great and some are horrible. The worst professors you will encounter are in your undergraduate classes. This information is strictly for accountancy graduates and possibly other disciplines if applicable. I wanted to get my degree in accountancy because there are thousands of accountancy positions available through the job boards. My story is that I was transitioning from a completely different professional field of... Read More study with very limited "real-world" accounting experience. From an educational standpoint, this made me take every undergraduate course in accounting as they were prerequisites for the Masters program (big money). I maintained a 4.0 in 17/17 classes. From a job seeking standpoint, I could not have made a worse decision. You MUST have or go through an internship to even hear back from a company. Without this, you will not even get entry level A/P or A/R jobs which are essentially $12-$15 data entry jobs (imputing source document info into the CRM). This is not even discussed by advisors or anybody at the school. Experience is the ONLY way to break into this industry. Companies will not hire to train and I'm speaking from the greater Phoenix area which has hundreds of accounting jobs. The cut-off age (which is unspoken) for the big 10 is 31 years old. I found this out after speaking with a multitude of employees at these firms while Ubering. I would check to see if your degree requires internships and experience before going to an online school (very limited practical knowledge regarding certain disciplines). Everyone that I have spoken to that went to a brick-and-mortar school understood that internships were the industry standard. I wish I knew this before I wasted 65K on a worthless online degree. You would think that your personal academic advisor would have had this conversation with the students before applying. Christian or not, education is all about money. If it were not, I would not have received 30 calls and e-mails from 2 months in advance of class start date until the deadline date to register. Please check to see if your discipline needs experience (even at entry level; which now means 1-2 years of experience) before even thinking about going to on of these schools. I now have a worthless piece of paper that I am willing to sell. Best of luck and do not let the Christian thing fool you! MONEY, MONEY, MONEY!!!!!!

I like this school. I originally wanted to do my undergraduate here but wasn't able to attend because my Mother thought it was too far away from home. As an online graduate student I believe whether the professors attend to me or not I am going to succeed with this degree. My program only offered 30 credits, but I need 48 to get my Chemical Dependency License in the state of Texas. This was a bit of a set back because I did not want to attend classes anymore, however, as a military wife I was able... Read More to supplement tuition with a fee reduction from the school and attend for 18 credits more in order to get my licensure. I currently hold a Chemical Dependency Counselor Intern license and am still able to work in my desired field. I recently was able to get a job with the Department of Family and Protective Services with only a bachelor's in Psychology so I am confident that even with an online master's degree I can get a decent position in the field of my choice. One bad aspect to this university's online programs is that the professors do not push ALL of the students to perform at graduate level. Many of the other student's assignments were sub-par when it came to simple things such as APA formatting, but somehow I ALWAYS seemed to get points taken off when I skipped instructions for assignments.

I requested more information on this school, so they gave me a call. Tgis was fine but they kept trying to force me to apply before I got any information/credibility of the school! So I just told myself that there was no way I would go here! I finally found a school just right for me, Christian university (obviously not liberty) and they gave me all the information that I could ask for. But this school harasses me, they call me a minimum of 5 times a day, most of the time more! They wont leave me... Read More alone no matter what! So I just think, if this school is so great and so "Christian", why would they need to harass students to enroll, even when you tell them you're not interested? I just got an all around shady vibe! No one should enroll into school without knowing what they are getting into, and not be harassed to enroll! By the way, it seems like all the positive comments are basically the same just written slightly different, so I wouldn't put it past them if they got their employees to write good reviews and replies to be completely honest....

I have to say that for me this school was a great experience especially as a veteran. I found the program to be fairly rigorous. Online schooling is what you put into it. As a veteran, they are top notch. The tuition is literally cut in half for vets being about $250 per credit hour for graduate level courses. Those prices are cheaper than any for profit or non profit school that I know of. The main thing to remember with online schooling is that if you turn in your work on time, that's half the... Read More battle, and you should do fine. In addition, I really like how Liberty doesn't necessarily cap how many classes you can take in a two month term. I took 4 grad level courses my first term, and this helped me finish a Masters degree in 9 months. It was not easy, but I did it. Some schools curtail how many classes you can take at one time so that you keep getting charged. Overall, this is an excellent school. I thank the Lord that I was blessed to use my GI benefits to attend this great school.

So, I tried to go here, before transferring out because this place is incredibly judgmental, and horrible for military students. This is the application process for transfer students 1) Apply 2) Sign up for classes 3) find out if you're accepted 4)pay. Here's how it is at other colleges 1)Apply 2. them analyze your credits, see what you need to do 4) Sign up for credits 5) Pay I applied, and was told I had to sign up for classes to finish the application process. I told them I think I should wait,... Read More since military credits are little weird, and I wanted to see what they'd accept - so I'd know what I need. They said "You need to sign up for classes to apply, that's it" So I signed up, and of course, what I thought would happen did, I sign up for classes I already had credits for, then they wouldn't let me switch out of them. So I did the classes, and while doing it - mind you I work in intelligence - I did the papers, and had my superior at work look them over to "fact-check" them. And I failed like half the papers - why? Because my answer weren't biblical enough. This school doesn't care about teaching you what's right, they care about you learning what they think is right. aka a cult. This school sets you up for failure - hence why the graduation rate sucks, and why the median salary after graduation sucks. I left this "school" and went to a real college.

Any college is what you make of it. If you like sitting in a class room and interacting with others in person, then online isn't for you. Taking classes online means that you have to be self starting and self motivated. I had a great experience with Liberty (aside from one or two professors that graded unnecessarily hard) and I passed my competencies and licensure exams on the first try. I was well prepared for both because I worked hard and took from my education what I needed to be successful.... Read More The staff and advisors at Liberty have been extremely helpful throughout my time there and the tuition was very reasonable for the level of education. I highly recommend Liberty Online for those who don't mind a little hard work!

Liberty University Online will say anything to get you into their program. Anything. I was enrolling to get a certification to teach, which they can do. The problem is that they cannot do it for all subject areas and will lie about their ability at application and enrollment time. I really would have expected this kind of bait and switch sort of behavior from a for-profit "university" and not from a "Christian" university. The classes themselves were fine. If they meet your needs, great. Just make... Read More sure they are telling the truth. If you see 1 star, it's because I couldn't give zero.

Expensive, overpopulated and worthless degree. They brag about being the 'biggest Christian university' but what does that mean when there are THOUSANDS of new graduates every semester that haven't been prepared at all. If you pay your money you will pass. All courses are recycled year after year and the professors generally don't know the subject material. Professors don't interact with your work. All communication is pre-written and sent out based on the schedule, very minimal "actual" engagement... Read More with students.

Run away from this so called Christian school. This university wants your money. I requested a specific professor and was put into the class. The next day Liberty kept calling my telephone saying that I needed to complete the course requirement checklist. Therefore, I logged in and completed it. Then, I noticed another professor name on my assignments. I called the school and the advisors said that there is nothing that they can do for me because I have already completed the checklist. Liberty's... Read More mission statement is "Training Champions for Christ", How can you do that when you are deceiving your students?

I attended Liberty from 2009-2012 for Finance. I'm one class from a BS in Finance. I had a business professor named Scott Hicks who failed me multiple times even though the work was completed. Hicks is a lowlife scumbag. If he doesn't like you, he will fail you, even with the work completed. I have not paid Liberty, and will never pay Liberty the tuition owed due to the fact this piece of trash still works there. I am having to start my degree over at a different school. Avoid Liberty at all cost.... Read More Not very Christian, as they only care about the money, not students.

Let me start by saying this school is perfect for full time college students or full time mid level job holders. I found the online program to be a lot of work which is a good thing but what I found discouraging was the lack of professors involvement. When I had questions or concerns I would e-mail each professor only to get either a response after the assignment deadline or no response at all. Writing a passage Scripture every week shouldn't be the only form of communication. I didn't really enjoy... Read More my first semester but decided try one more semester needless to say this will be my last semester. I will attend my local university and finish my MBA. Besides corporate America prefer local degrees then online degrees it is sad but so true.

Liberty University Online was great. I chose to go to Liberty while taking time off from work to deal with a health issue. The online classes gave me the opportunity to progress with limited physical capabilities at the time. This was the 3rd university that I attended and the first that focused in on teaching you how to think instead of only giving you facts. Regardless of the field of study, our worldview shapes how we receive and understand information. Liberty's encouragement to evaluate and... Read More develop awareness of your foundational worldview equips their students with the ability to maximize their best gift to the world........an authentic self! This experience was priceless!

Liberty University introduces a professional graduate degree program that requires you to work diligently, interact with other students and your professors in this online format. Where else could you earn a professional degree online for this price and get a PhD's who offer insight and encouragement? I looked at Wake Forest and their online program was $75,000! Sure you may have a professor who is balancing their private practice and is teaching 4 courses but as a graduate student you are expected... Read More to immerse yourself in higher education! So, suck it up and quit complaining! Do you wish to advance your knowledge base with the same texts used at Harvard and Penn? I think so...but you are paying 1/4 of the cost so there are some trade offs. Liberty University has high standards....I graduated with distinction (3.9 GPA) and that's a high bar for any University. I had my papers professionally bound resulting in three volumes (650 pages) of which I am very proud. This program stretched me to high levels of performance which increased my capacity to augment the lives of others.