Walden University
Reviews and Complaints

I earned a B.S. in Communications May 2014. And B.S. is what it is! This school only allows you take two courses at a time - enough to bleed the federal loan and financial aid systems dry. Earning a Bachelors degree that costs $40, 000 makes me feel great, just knowing how worthless it is. Every year the cost to attend just kept creeping up. This place is a financial trap, stay away from all for-profit colleges/universities. Their commitment and desire to promote social responsibility is a hilarious joke.

I am in the same situation at Walden. Has anyone notified the U. S. Department of Education. I tried but the automated systems gives you a number to call for fraud, but you never get a person to answer, just voicemail, and I have left my name and number with no call back. Help!

I too am having a terrible time getting my degree. I am under so much anxiety and stress.

This has also happened to me. I had 4.0 in my masters program and went though the first part of the PhD program unassisted. When my dissertation started I was guided by my committee for 1.5 years on the proposal only to have it rejected by the URR. twice. This is three years dangling at the end of this program. One committee member told me I was citing journal references incorrectly. He could not tell me the correct way, nor could my chair who simply said it was terribly complicated. My manual uses a font that is similar for italic and regular so that was no help. The writing center woud not respond to the question. I need up paying someone to tell me it was right in the first place. This stupid thing cost three weeks. I could go on for 50 pages of this kind of thing. This is the tip of th iceberg.

hahahahahahaha...hahhahahahahahahah...hahhaha you keep workin at that "RLM01 hahahahahah...the program is set up for failure...they won't let you finish because there is strong economic interest. A former faculty member told me they are paid each quarter per diss student, so the longer they keep them the more money they make...so you keep on believing that you're going to finish..hahhahaha

There is certainly not enough to go on, and it would need to be evaluated from both sides. It always amazes me how people jump to "I want my money back" and "I want to sue", because they failed something. Where has personal responsibility gone? This only seems to happen at for-profit schools. Traditional universities "fail" people everyday, and students have to jump through lots of hoops. Welcome to academia. Instead of bashing a school and trying to get your money back, why don't you work with them to see what you need to do to finish and accept responsibility for it. We all fail sometimes, so there is not a grand scheme that all of the professors and the school are in on to bilk you out of more money. By the way to admit my bias, I am a doctoral student at Walden, and it is hard. They make you work for it, but I have had a great experience. Not to mention, the professors are top notch, many of whom also teach at traditional universities.

I am interested in filing a lawsuit again Walden University. My contact information is 4pchildress@gmail.com

I am currently having issues with Walden University. I am a relatively new student and I contacted financial aid regarding my upcoming disbursement. I was told that I would not be receiving a refund and that I owed them money. She also stated that I was over-rewarded twice and offered to set up a payment plan. I am high disgusted with Walden right now. I had not received a call, an email, not even a fax regarding Walden's [censored] up. I currently speaking to another financial aid rep and I hope this issue can be resolved. I really wish I'd researched Walden's financial investigations prior to committing to this university.

Contact me, we will get a class action going and put an end to these rip off schools like Walden and Argosy and so many others.

count me in... powellchristie@ymail.com. Same issues.

We should all ban together ! right now I am out of 20 thousand for a MSN than I have been trying to complete. The problem always seems to be the affiliation agreement. My place of work and Walden are not on speaking terms and the last student it took them 9 months to approve the affiliation agreement. After it was approved Walden sent the hospital an email that stated that they would not accept any more students from that site. Had I known that attaining a practicum was to be so difficult I would never have attended this school. I am done with a MSN in NI all I need is a practicum experience. I should have dropped early on ! This is becoming a nightmare. I will have to move o a different city work at a different hospital to even have hopes of finishing this degree.

any one want to press class action lawsuit. I am into this Walden for 30 thousand for a MSN in Nursing Informatics. Walden makes it almost impossible to attain a practicum . A suit needs to be filed and I am totally in agreeance for this to be done. I will side with all persons who want to proceed with CLASS ACTION LAW SUIT AGAINST THIS UNIVERSITY!

gwjeff...your situation is exactly the same as mine. I sent you a message. I have found there are more people experiencing issues with Walden's Financial Aid office and Bursar's office. There are also several complaints filed through the Better Business Bureau.

I am currently enrolled at Walden University and I agree with you. I have experienced problems with enrollment and refund disbursement. They have some of the rudest staff members I have encountered I really hate that I enrolled in this school. I have found that the rules, their rules do not mean anything even if it is in black and white.Whenever you call in you will recieve I different answer.

I contacted a lawyer, and he said that if we get enough people, we can file a lawsuit. Contact me if you are interested: trferguson22@yahoo.com. He also said to tell your congressman.

Hello,
You can include me. I graduated with a B.S. in Communications and B.S. is what it is. Contact me @ mali_bonavia@yahoo.com.

Hi there, you can include me...I was on federal aid...they were paid for my classes by FAFSA... and they are now trying to bill me for 2600.00 which was what my refund was...um...FAFSA told me I owe them nothing... ...contact me powellchristie@ymail.com

I had the exact same thing happen and will be contacting the president of the university.
Looking to organize something as well and bring it to the attention of the media...
contact me and we shall talk! kwllms99@gmail.com

I attended walden as a Masters student and an in the Ph. D. in CES, I am looking into leaving because of the lack of support I am experiencing now. I was enrolled in core classes then after a year en rolled in the beginning intro course, academic advising is incorrect often which causes problems for those who are trying to plan their program. It's not the students, it is the institution. For profit schools need students and unfortunately often do not give the full picture of what is required.
Walden provides no help securing a field experience site either. Some teachers are good but some are not. On a PhD level you need assistance, if I could teach myself at the doctoral level I wouldn't need the classes. Some classes the materials are lacking and the instructor guidance very little, you are then criticized for not understanding the assignment or what the instructor wanted but all the students made the same mistake. Clearly if every student did it wrong there's a problem with the instructions. The attitude of some instructors is that they are so great and that you are a lowly student unworthy of academia.
Walden has gone downhill imo, I am considering transferring because the instruction is so lacking

I find most of these accusations to be without merit. People are very slow in their understanding what it takes to graduate from any institution. You cannot play school. You must attend, read, conduct yourself as a vessel of learning. It is very tough getting an advanced degree. less than 1 percent of persons attempting a PhD complete the program on this planet, so consider the source when you read these arguments. I will graduate in 2016 and it was hard and I get responses from all of my mentors, professors, and cohort affiliates. Do not blame the system, blame the individual.

I contacted Walden University about their Masters in Psychology in Counseling. When the advisor finally returned my call (4 days later) he did everything to convince me that I should attend Walden especially at this time if I registered by 12/02/2013 I would receive a $4000 check in addition to my financial aid. Well, I managed to submit all my documentation on time by November 27, 2013. I heard nothing except that the admissions advisor was out from 11/27 un Monday 12/2. He put some woman named Alison in charge of handling all his students paperwork. I also submitted to her but never received a response. She never let me know if she submitted my paperwork or if anything was missing. I left her two telephone messages and two emails. To make a long story short, on Monday, 12/2/2013, when the admissions counselor returned he emailed me and told me I could not be registered for December 2nd because they did not receive all my documents in time. Thus, making me ineligible for the bonus $4000. This was a complete scam. I intend to bring this scam to the attention of the Attorney General's office.
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Walden is nothing but crooks and dishonest, non-responsive staff. Meanwhile. I'm being charged over $23, 000 in student loans, interest accumulating daily yet I cannot get a grade or a comment from an instructor for weeks at a time! My costs are accumulating daily while those idiots sit back and could not care less about their response time. Where is there a class-action lawsuit against them, I will sign now!

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I contacted a lawyer, and he said that if we get enough people, we can file a lawsuit. Contact me if you are interested: trferguson22@yahoo.com. He also said to tell your congressman.

from the reading of your (complaint)... the so many misspelled words... words where they don't belong.. misuse of the correct meaning of certain words... i'm not sure you even belong in college. Perhaps maybe that's the (real) issue your are having. I mean.. not trying to (stunt your growth) or anything.. but maybe you should take a few more english courses because that paragraph that you wrote was atrocious. I'm just saying...

I wish I knew about this website before now, I would not be in as much debt as I am and now the college is trying to collect personally from me over $3,000 because I had covid and was unable to complete the last assignment. They claim I dropped out of the doctoral program prior to end of the quarter. Which is not true. I wrote asking to drop but was told that I had to go through my instructor and I didn't. After talking to Dr. Stout I continue trying to write and submit my work but developed Covid in April and it last until the end of May. It has been so long, and I have had so many problems with this virus until I don't know if they are talking about the spring quarter of 2020 or 2021. I have contacted them several time and even wrote a letter to the president of the college and did not or have not receive any response, but they have placed that debt on credit and is trying to collect it. I encourage anyone who wants to further their education to choose any other school except Walden. They are not about minority women education. They hire a bunch of people who cannot and do not deal with your problem. You cannot speak to anyone that is knowledgeable to handle you case. Please choose another school. When I get the time, I will be posting my complaint, similar message, on other media site to warn people. Also, there is a class action lawsuit I trying to find out how to join it.

Walden is scamming me and it smells to high heavens. They have my student loan, my transcripts, put hold on my account to block my next term registration. The school has turned to a dream-killer university. The staff commit error and pushes the blame to me. The tamper with students's records to cover errors. I have being changing dissertation committee members like changing underwear. Last one dropped without notifying me.

I am about to sue if nothing is done or the school fails to release my fund, get paid to remove the bursars hold, and I back to class I will file a law suit that will include the appropriate Accreditation Agency.

I am misled student

I am trying to initiate a class action suit against Walden. My story briefly: I started my Doctorate in 2008 and was approved to start URR in 2011. Since then my chair has been changed twice and I was instructed to to begin my project study all over again. I have been dismissed from the program after accruing $122K in debt and being approved twice to start the URR.
I am being interviewed by the Philadelphia Inquirer. I have 2 others who have agreed to be interviewed. That makes a total of 6 in 3 different states who are willing to work with a lawyer to proceed.
I am hopeful this interview will lead to a lawyer becoming interested in taking on Walden. The more merrier. Please contact me at Zkeithnewman@yahoo.com.
Sincerely Yours,
Keith Newman

The advisors at Walden are very poor. I was told I would graduate February 2016 and then was told I had one more class that cost me $2248 and did not graduate until April. Also, if you have a problem in a class such as I did, in which I was bullied and abused, the advisor tells you to forget about it because I got an A. My grade had nothing to do with how I was treated. I talked to the instructor who was just as bad as the students.. I enjoyed most of my classes and did very well and graduated with a 3.65 average, but I would not go back to Walden. I am still fighting with them over the $2248 they say I owe. I filed a petition and received no answer, they only care about money, not the student.

Please contact Me if anyone is interested in a Class Action Lawsuit for Predatory Practices; and then-some.

A. Pichardo

Those of you who think Walden is great, get to your PhD and see how things go. I graduated from a brick and mortar Ivy League school with honors for my Bachelor and Master's Degrees so don't tell me I need my "hand held" at Walden. It was great until I reached the PhD and was abandoned for the dissertation. No one has any compassion or help offered. Do not go here for higher degrees. Good Luck. I am well paid and respected in my field yet I am being treated like a child at this university. NIghtmare emotionally and financially.

While I was enrolled in Ed D Educational Technology program with Walden, my courses were cancelled, then my enrollment was discontinued without notification or warning. I inquired multiple times until I found out the status. Now I am trying to know how to resume. They have not provided any details.

I am also a student at Walden University I have been attending since 2009 and have been working towards my PhD degree with little progress. I am experiencing the same intended delays, lack of approval of my chapters and now it is claimed that I reached my aggregate limit for student loans. I am getting unwarranted U grades for everything that I submit. My progress is being undermined by my now Chair and previous Chair. I have petitioned for a grade change repeatedly and requested an investigation of my Chair and committee. I was delayed 2 1/2 years with my Prospectus, I had one Chair who argued that my Prospectus should have passed long before it did, and they removed him as my Chair. I was assigned another Chair who repeatedly advised me to quit because I developed a disability, she then undermined my progress by blocking me from submitting revised drafts of my Prospectus, whereby she submitted a previous unrevised draft instead.

I am experiencing the same with the new Chair who advised me to quit as well and subsequently gave me U grades consecutively for two quarters based on her bias against my disability. I am fighting the grades without any luck of getting them changed. My eligibility for financial aid is dependent on my grades each quarter. I now do not qualify for student loans, to continue my program due to the U grades and as financial aid states due to having reach my aggregate limit to borrow money. They are giving both as reasons for the denials.

I want to join the class action lawsuit as well. I sacrificed 10 years of my life working towards this degree. I am also deep in student loan debt, I can't just walk away. I am very stressed and upset and so very angry.

they screwed my life. sent me to the collection and took me out of the program for no reason?

I am with you all. I spent 10 years at that school and I finally finished my PhD. I have almost 300k in student loans
After they strung me along for the 8 years max of the program. I had to beg them each quarter to get an extension because my chair would always tell me your soo close to finishing just one more quarter. We need a class action lawsuit. I don't want to pay them anything more

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I also have been on the mentor merry-go-round. And now I being held up due to a difference in perspective between my two paper readers about APA rules (by the way it is a minor thing, whether to put page numbers or not) and the use of the word "it"-- really, that is why you prevent someone from moving forward with their dissertation? ...this has been going on for 2 years!

I am a DNP student and this is my last Quarter because my chair states she only read small portions and if it needs corrections she don’t read any further. My first chair couldn’t find my first theee sections to read for two Quarters. My second chair made me change my approved Proposal after getting approved for my initial Proposal and the first three sections were complet or she wasn’t going to read the paper. Smh I reported it several times to my advisor with no help and the head of the program NEVER responded. Ever! I now have no more financial aid. They didn’t do their job!