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I felt like I spent more time working on general education and other mandatory courses than I did courses for my major. When I was a high school student, I was too naive to understand what all a liberal arts school entailed and chose this school because A. they accepted me and B. the atmosphere felt homey throughout the tour my family and I went on. This school was way too overpriced for not even working in the field I went for now. I came out with some good friends and memories, but if I were to... Read More do it all over again, I would have chosen a different route.

I thought I'd go to MVNU because it was cheaper and boy, I'm so close to transferring. I am taking a bible class right now and there is NO help, they say they have tutoring help but they don't for this class, the homework is so confusing. I failed once and decided I was going to take it again but try harder and get some help. I cannot get help and I'm trying harder, it's still confusing. I'm to the point of tears with frustration from this class and the lack of help from staff.

The staff also feels... Read More very impersonal and like a previous review said are only there to grade not help especially this teacher. I have not felt welcome (which doesn't take much I went to a community college and had a better time), and I'm about to transfer somewhere else.

My degree from MVNU has been mocked by my peers, on more than one occasion, for being from a joke of an institution. These peers had respectable degrees from Ohio State, University of Texas, and Kenyon College to name a few. As I'm watching attendance of my alma mater being chipped away, a third at a time, I can't help but mourn the reality that it is true. Not only have I experienced the abuse of their religious rhetoric in praxis, I'm watching the decay of their relevance academically. I imagine,... Read More that in just a few years, my degree will be from a university no longer existent. The good news is that they had a really cool athletics facility before they died, right? Serving mammon has a way of catching up to us, doesn't it? I strongly recommend a person get their degree from a respectable university. MVNU does not practice what it preaches and its fruits are in its perishing.

I am so close to being done (I only have one more course left) but I wish I would have transferred to a different school I don't feel like I have learned much in my 2 years I've taken online, but have have a 3.7+ GPA. The teachers are there for grading, that is it. There is no lecture, but sometimes there is a random youtube video to watch. They tell you what chapters to read of the textbook and give you busy work. Some of the teacher are great, but you can't build any kind of relationship with them... Read More because they are a grading horse. They can't even make any changes to their courses if they wanted to. Then, to make it a "Christian education" they just add a second discussion board where they take a verse, say on the rapture, and try to make you relate it to whatever business topic the week is about. It's very "what does this verse mean to you" and that is an awful way to read the Bible. My advisor was wonderful, but I am really disappointed in MVNU. I did one semester on campus that was great besides the liberal leanings and slight weirdness in chapel.

Great program, all online, perfect for full-time working professionals, I would highly recommend Mount Vernon Nazarene University's online MBA Programs. Especially if you are looking to further your education. They are accredited! Most professors are excellent and quick to response with any issues that might come up or questions you come across. The classes are actually enjoyable and can relate to almost any position in the corporate world. I really have no bad things to say about the Graduate Professional... Read More Studies programs.

I tried to keep an open mind throughout my time there because some of the professors were quite good especially once you get in your major, including my first adviser who has since moved on to another school. Some majors were better developed than others, and mine, while I think it taught me a lot of critical thinking and writing skills, was not very well developed. In theory, I was on a comparative politics track, but to my knowledge International relations was not offered the entire time I was... Read More there and the only comparative politics class they had operated as a general education class for cultural engagement or something like that. It was not at an upper divisional level. I was mostly put in history classes. The professor who replaced my initial adviser has restructured the major a lot to be more truthful to the brochure than the program I was enrolled it, eliminating tracks all together, but I think the critical thinking and writing skills I did gain under the first professor are not being taught as effectively under the new professor. Having graduated 2 years ago now, I realize how useless my degree was. MVNU does not have a good system for helping place you in a career when you leave. When I was looking for internships and later a job for after college, I spoke to my new adviser several times as well as the career "expert". These experiences were not helpful at all. My adviser couldn't offer me any suggestions of places to look for jobs and had no connections, at least that she shared with me. I was not given any good networking opportunities in my time at the school. I asked the career expert for advice on what to submit to a perspective employer as a writing sample and his answer was "Oh, I wouldn't know. I was an art major." I graduated MVNU Magna Cum Laude and went into the school with a 31 ACT score. I tried to take advantage of every opportunity I could find at this school. I was active in several school clubs, even helping found one, but I have not had a single interview in my field in the 2 years I have been out, despite many many applications, cover letters, and resumes sent out. P.S. If you do consider this school, my advice is to stay out of the honors program. The small scholarship they give you for being in it is wasted on the extra credit hours of classes they have you take. It is a lot of extra work with not a lot of pay out. I think it is designed more to make the school look good than it is to grow the students or make them more marketable employees. It did introduce me to several professors across disciplines that I really respect, but ultimately I dropped out to graduate earlier. My spouse who did graduate with honors is having as much difficulty finding a career as I am.

I was enrolled in a working adult program where I would work on one class at a time. I realized that this was a Christian school and was told by the enrollment counselor that because of that I would be required to complete 3 credit hours of theology to graduate. I accepted this and went through the enrollment process. What he failed to mention was that religion would be shoehorned into every class I took. For example, the final assignment I had to complete in my astronomy class involved writing a... Read More 5 page essay describing how the course material affected my views and faith in God. It was the most valuable assignment in the class, point wise, and had absolutely nothing to do with what I had learned. This may not have annoyed me as much if I hadn't been led to believe that even though they were a Christian school the were open to people of all faiths and beliefs. If I had known that every class was going to be that way I never would have decided to go there. The icing on the cake for me, however, was that after completing 4 classes online (all were gen ed so I got nothing useful to my career out of the work I did) I received a call from the enrollment counselor asking if I had decided what I would like to change my major too. I asked why would I want to change my major? He then informed me that the program I was enrolled in was dropped and suggested I change to business management. So the school had dropped the program I was in and didn't bother to tell me until it was necessary for me to pick a new major. Not to mention they were still advertising the program I was in on the radio as recently as a month before I found out that it was being dropped. Business management is not what I went to them for so I had no choice but to leave them and find a new school. Of the four classes I took the equivalent of 1 credit hour transferred to my new school. If you are a highly religious Christian person who wants God to be injected into every single aspect of your life then may MVNU would be for you, if you are a traditional student. I cannot recommend anyone using any of their working adult learning programs if they are willing to drop them without letting those that are already enrolled to complete them or offer any kind restitution when they do.