CSU Global (Colorado State University Global)Reviews of csuglobal.edu

Incredible support, veterans are treated with the utmost respect as I’m sure all students are, and the classes are dynamic and at a good pace.

Towards the end of my degree the classes were not as engaging as in the beginning. Overall a good experience and education.

Attending CSU Global was an amazing experience. The workload was as expected, requiring about 15-25 hours per week per class, with assignments due on Thursdays and Sundays. While it was a lot to manage, the flexibility of asynchronous courses made it possible to pursue a masters degree while balancing a full-time job managing a team in healthcare IT during a pandemic and merger, and raising twin toddlers. Most instructors were highly responsive and understanding of the challenges students faced, making communication key. A few struggled with timely responses and grading clarity/consistency, but virtual conversations helped resolve those issues. I took two short breaks to regroup but was able to jump back in and complete my degree in 2.5 years. The structure of weekly deadlines without live classes provided the accountability I needed while allowing for flexibility. Additionally, CSU Global was significantly more affordable than other institutions, and more importantly, I learned so much. I highly recommend it! If I could do it under these circumstances, anyone can.

It was an amazing experience. I was able to study at my own pace and I was given a lot of support.

Completed their graduate certification in project management. Great faculty and staff. Professors were knowledgeable. Would recommend!

Ability to study on my own terms

The instructors are all far more concerned with proper APA format then actual content and ensuring their students are grasping material. The majority of my classes felt like taking an English class over and over again. To combat this I started using software to help me get my papers into proper APA format, which many universities recommened. Unfortunately CSU global used low end AI detection software and the instructors started complaining that my papers were AI generated. So sensitive was their AI detection software that words auto correct would be flagged. In all not a great experience.

Rampant online cheating known by teachers. Discussions and likely assignments by students were obviously written by AI and worthless. I would bring up this fact to teachers and even the president of CSU, with their responses being either "there's nothing we can do" or no response (from the President, after so many weak responses working my way up the chain of command). In two cases my non-AI work started being grading ridiculously hard by 2 teachers who I had informed of the rampant AI cheating -- I guess for speaking up and making their job harder. I asked for justification of their grading, and multiple times my grade would change to a 100% with zero explanation or discussion -- also, I'd guess for their game being called-out and not wanting to spend any time defending their actions, much less teaching anything. A few other occasions, I would call teachers during their "office hours". The vast majority of the time, the teachers seemed annoyed I used office hours / I assume it was rare for students to actually request to speak. In private messages with other students, I learned I was not alone -- people would just quit using office hours as it was clear the teachers never intended spend any time one on one helping students. A few teachers clearly did not understand the material they were trying to teach and repeatedly showed the same. In one case, with a supposed PhD in accounting living in FL, I started asking very basic questions as a test after them posting some truly illogical and clearly wrong statements again and again, and was stunned at the level of ignorance and just patently wrong answers I'd get in response. I think CSU is just a way for marginal educators to make a few extra bucks on the side by logging in a few times a week, copy and pasting material and responses from previous classes (obviously happening as you could tell the context was from some other conversation / discussion thread, and not what was being directly discussed), and calling it teaching. Again, in private messages with other students in the class, I learned my experience was common among many students. The school is just a diploma mill and nothing more. If you are close to finishing a degree and just need to top it off, feel you know your degree material well, and just need to get an official piece of paper, CSU is fine. If you actually want to learn anything, I would strongly suggest going elsewhere. As an employer, if I saw CSU on an applicant's resume, I would be very suspicious.