Walden UniversityReviews of waldenu.edu

I have written several emails to the department that deals with transcript for more than a week to make corrections on my transcript, unfortunately they're not responding to my emails. It just a shame for this to be happening to Walden, a university of social change.

My survey! “I am very disappointed with my experience. I have felt unsupported and unheard when trying to resolve issues. Communication has been slow or nonexistent, especially regarding important matters like reaffirmation and account concerns. I am also frustrated that I cannot access my transcripts due to what I believe is an error on the school’s part. This has negatively impacted me and caused unnecessary stress. It feels like financial matters are prioritized over student support, and that has made me feel like my success is not truly valued. I would like to see better communication, accountability, and timely assistance for students.”In stead of trying to fix the problem the kicked me out of school. There pissed off about my survey. All of this took place 8/25.. Sincerely Marian Dear Marian 04/27/26 This notification serves to inform you that you have been withdrawn from Walden University, effective 08/17/2025. The reason for this action is that you have not complied with the Continuous Enrollment policy as stated in the 2025-2026 Walden University Catalog: In the future, should you decide to return to Walden University, you will need to email your Student Success Advisor. Regards, Registrar's Office Walden University

I rarely leave reviews, but my experience with Walden University has been frustrating enough that I feel obligated to speak up. As a graduate student trying to responsibly finance my education, I expected clarity, consistency, and compliance with federal financial aid rules. Instead, I was met with confusing guidance and barriers that made it nearly impossible to access funding I am eligible for. I was effectively told that I needed to reduce or drop loans from another institution just to be considered for additional aid, while my Graduate PLUS loan was never properly processed. That is not just inconvenient—it puts students in a financially vulnerable position. What makes this worse is that these decisions don’t feel transparent or grounded in the federal framework established by Federal Student Aid. As students, we rely on financial aid offices to guide us accurately, not create extra hurdles or apply policies that don’t seem clearly explained. I spent weeks trying to get straightforward answers and still felt like I was going in circles. When you’re already balancing graduate-level work, finances, and long-term goals, that kind of uncertainty is exhausting and honestly discouraging. I enrolled with the expectation that I would be supported through the process—not blocked by it. No student should have to fight this hard just to access the funding they are entitled to under federal programs. I truly hope Walden takes a hard look at how their financial aid processes are impacting students, because right now, it feels like the system is working against us instead of for us.

Horrible school. They don’t help you with anything. Pretty much just leaves you hanging. No financial aid help what so ever. Advisor don’t know anything. Admissions don’t know anything. Nobody is on the same page.

I have spent 9 years at Walden University and still do not have my DBA. They have changed their chair instructors too many times causing great harm to my learning. Each instructor change brings their own personal writing standards which are different than the previous one. In the last course the IRB and the instructor Dooley forced me to change my longstanding qualitative case study to a pragmatic case study without any help on how to do that academically correct. I have a longstanding 3.25 GPA. Walden is only out for the money. DO NOT ENROLL AT WALDEN UNIVERSITY.

Since I initially applied, my phone has been inundated with phone calls and texts from Tammy Byerly, who's a representative for Walden University. While I submitted all of the required documents needed to process my application, she has deliberately refused to process it without a phone call to "confirm some information and to assure we are placing students in the correct degree plan, start date etc". I do not personally require any hand-holding, or assistance in this matter, I am a grown adult and am capable of making my own decisions. I am attempting to apply to a graduate level program, this isn't my first rodeo. Stop wasting people's time and money.

This school ruined my life!! Three words put "exhibit c schools" into Chat GPT.

This school is a fraud and a joke! DO NOT ATTEND!! Not only was I repeatedly failed over a small scale assignment, they waited until the end of my semester to let me turn it in for the final time so that I wouldn't be able to finish the class and get credit for it. The tempo program is designed to fail you on the first submission of every assignment so you can "fix" what's wrong according to the professors. The whole grading scale is poorly explained, the advisors do not care and do not know what's going on with the program. I also was advised to take statistics with Sophia, so I did and completed the certification of credit. After the fact, I was informed that I had to drop one of my transferrable credits in order to add the statistics class, and then the university added a new class onto my required courses. Making it an even longer timeline to graduate. I ended up leaving the program with a bill of a little over 3K and I was making payments monthly. Sometimes little, sometimes larger, depending on how much food I wanted to eat that month. I was informed that I had to set the account up on a payment plan, pay it in full, or it was getting turned into collections. I called to get it set up on a payment plan ( I have no problem with paying what I owe the University, even though I don't think the program deserves a cent, ultimately I attended for a semester and that is what I owe. That's fine.) After speaking with the financial advisors, they gave me an option, pay it upfront in full or they offer installment options for 2, 3, or 4 payments. Even if I took the 4 installment options, I would have to pay over 800 a month. If I had that money, I would have been paying it from the start. I explained that I couldn't make that kind of a larger payment, and they very uncompassionately told me it would have to go to collections. This University doesn't care about their students. They only care about their money.