I was in the process of enrolling in the internet program at NCU last year in September. I spoke to several Admissions advisors and financial aid people to get everything set.
On October 16, 2013 I had a tragic lost in my family with the death of my brother. I reported this to the avdvisors and told them that that I would not be able to start school and to not enroll at this time because of the stress and hurt.
They kept calling and trying to get me to commit to a date to start and I kept teling them that I was in no condition to finsih the enrollment process and start the class. Months later I get a call from someone telling me I owed them $2438. (approx) for the class I never started. Iatold him my situation as well. They in turn turned it over to a collectiona gency.
They knew ahead of time that I had made up in my mind not to continue with the enroloment process and was not going to attend the on-line class and this could have been avoided. I believe that this was a sham to get money anyway they could,even though I bnever finished the enrollment progrcess. I am hurt and discouraged by the actions othe school and its employees.
I am a 30 year old student who has been working in the Ph.D program at NorthCentral University for 5 years. I was on target to graduate next May with a Ph.D in Psychology. I failed my comp exam twice and was recently informed that I am now DISMISSED from the program completely and not allowed to come back. What this University is saying is I am over $60k in debt with student loans, 5 years into this program and was KICKED OUT for failing an exam twice. They are saying "sorry to bad" and "you don't have any options now". How does 1 professor dictate a students academic career? This school is a complete scam that only cares about getting that credit card on file and charging any expenses they feel necessary. I beg you not to attend this school as they have competely ruined my career future and I am stuck to pay over 60k and have received NOTHING for it. No degree period. Please call me at and I would more than happy to explain in more detail how this school is a deceitful dishonest pathetic excuse for higher education.
I am experiencing a very similar situation at NCU. However, my never-ending dissertation has continued for 8 years. I first went through this cycle with the Concept Paper which is basically the dissertation proposal, but in a slightly different format. So, you write, submit, re- write, re-submit chapters 1-3 of the Concept Paper to move forward and begin the entire process with the Dissertation Proposal. This process is ludicrous!!! It was communicated to me by a so-called committee chair that the Concept Paper was designed because NCU admitted students who were not at the doctoral level. Thus, the Concept Paer is a learning tool, so to speak!!! That is laughable, and I think it is a money making tool.
I am now going throught the same cycle with the Dissertation Proposal. My committe approves the paper, and it goes to the mysterious NCU committe to be rejected. Oh, did I mention I have gone through numerous committee chairs and committe members along the way? Each time the committee changes, you have to jump through hoops and re-write the paper to please them. It is a very subjective process and at this point, the dissertation proposal has been re-written so many times, I do not even know where I began. Currently, the big committee is instructing me to put in information in the chapters that the committee chair instructed me to remove.
At any rate, it is time for the madness to stop! I have lost all of my incentive to even continue to write the dissertation because I know it will be rejected. I am ready to hire an attorney. Please, has anyone out there had any luck by taking legal action against this institution?
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I was in the process of enrolling in the internet program at NCU last year in September. I spoke to several Admissions advisors and financial aid people to get everything set.
On October 16, 2013 I had a tragic lost in my family with the death of my brother. I reported this to the avdvisors and told them that that I would not be able to start school and to not enroll at this time because of the stress and hurt.
They kept calling and trying to get me to commit to a date to start and I kept teling them that I was in no condition to finsih the enrollment process and start the class. Months later I get a call from someone telling me I owed them $2438. (approx) for the class I never started. Iatold him my situation as well. They in turn turned it over to a collectiona gency.
They knew ahead of time that I had made up in my mind not to continue with the enroloment process and was not going to attend the on-line class and this could have been avoided. I believe that this was a sham to get money anyway they could,even though I bnever finished the enrollment progrcess. I am hurt and discouraged by the actions othe school and its employees.
I am a 30 year old student who has been working in the Ph.D program at NorthCentral University for 5 years. I was on target to graduate next May with a Ph.D in Psychology. I failed my comp exam twice and was recently informed that I am now DISMISSED from the program completely and not allowed to come back. What this University is saying is I am over $60k in debt with student loans, 5 years into this program and was KICKED OUT for failing an exam twice. They are saying "sorry to bad" and "you don't have any options now". How does 1 professor dictate a students academic career? This school is a complete scam that only cares about getting that credit card on file and charging any expenses they feel necessary. I beg you not to attend this school as they have competely ruined my career future and I am stuck to pay over 60k and have received NOTHING for it. No degree period. Please call me at and I would more than happy to explain in more detail how this school is a deceitful dishonest pathetic excuse for higher education.
I am experiencing a very similar situation at NCU. However, my never-ending dissertation has continued for 8 years. I first went through this cycle with the Concept Paper which is basically the dissertation proposal, but in a slightly different format. So, you write, submit, re- write, re-submit chapters 1-3 of the Concept Paper to move forward and begin the entire process with the Dissertation Proposal. This process is ludicrous!!! It was communicated to me by a so-called committee chair that the Concept Paper was designed because NCU admitted students who were not at the doctoral level. Thus, the Concept Paer is a learning tool, so to speak!!! That is laughable, and I think it is a money making tool.
I am now going throught the same cycle with the Dissertation Proposal. My committe approves the paper, and it goes to the mysterious NCU committe to be rejected. Oh, did I mention I have gone through numerous committee chairs and committe members along the way? Each time the committee changes, you have to jump through hoops and re-write the paper to please them. It is a very subjective process and at this point, the dissertation proposal has been re-written so many times, I do not even know where I began. Currently, the big committee is instructing me to put in information in the chapters that the committee chair instructed me to remove.
At any rate, it is time for the madness to stop! I have lost all of my incentive to even continue to write the dissertation because I know it will be rejected. I am ready to hire an attorney. Please, has anyone out there had any luck by taking legal action against this institution?