Argosy University

Without question the worst, most inept, inadequate excuse for an educational institution. The vast majority of the «instructors» are genuinely unqualified. This is a for-​profit institution that could not care less who they graduate (the vast majority of the student body are lazy and illiterate!) Argosy and is in business for the money!!!
I was 3 classes short of a masters degree (with a 4.0 gpa) and quit because I could not bear the though of giving these stupid SOBs another penny.
Here is the problem — most of those that think about enrolling do so because they don’t care about the education they receive. They are indolent, worthless, functional illiterates that attend simply to punch the «masters degree» ticket. If you are one of them — @”&) you!
If your are a genuine student — stay away! I beg you!
Btw — Provost and all the rest of you, may your future bring you that which you deserve!

Well, I’m a student here in the clinical psychology program, which is different from the Argosy programs, and I couldn’t be happier. The program is APA accredited and the faculty are fantastic. I feel like the deans and the faculty actually care about students, which is so important. I’ve had a practicum and have had great experience. The training dept is tough but in the end, their demands worked for me, so I am happy. Classes are small and I know everyone in my cohort. I don’t have any complaints!

DO NOT GO TO THIS SCHOOL!!! I was told when I signed up that I would not have any payments to make until 6 months after I graduated. Now they are holding my degree hostage for 2 thousand dollars and I am a year away from graduating. I told them CLEARLY before I signed up that I could not make payments because my husband was the only one working at the time. This is just the latest problem I have had with them. For over 6 months there has been a problem EVERY semester. I can not even drop them to go to another school because my student loans will come due immediately. I want so bad to get out of there and cant. This is going to be one LONG year and I do not even want to march because I hate them so bad.

Do yourself a favor and DO YOUR RESEARCH on this school before even wasting a penny on the application fee. It is a complete scam and appalling to see this so-​called institution get away with such fraud. Just remember, if it looks too good to be true, it likely is!

What a bunch of whiners that have posted their comments here. I am currently attending classes at Argosy. The staff and instructors are fantastic.
I love the 5 week classes. Just about the time you get bored with a class — it is finished. I LOVE IT! They have blended and online classes.
However, five week classes are not for the slacker student since you have to learn a great deal of information in a short period of time. But if you are dedicated you can do it. If you are not dedicated and want to skate by – go to a junior college.

I attended Argosy, it was a good experience. There isn’t any school that is perfect… It served its purpose and now i have my MBA.

My niece has been crying ever since she got hooked up with this university. She can’t even get a clear answer about what she needs to graduate. Her last call to me stated that she wanted to know in writing what she needed to graduate. She is broke all the time and doesn’t see a future. I am very suspicious and find these views very Unilocal views very enlightening. Thank God to those who did not become involved with this university. Please pray for my niece.

I am a student here and I wish I was not. Who ever decided to change each course to 5 weeks instead of 8 is ridiculous! How would anyone be expected to make it through an entire college course book and retain the information in 5 weeks??? The financial aid people messed up my paper work twice and one semester I had to pay over 2,000. When they realized they had me set as a freshman when I was a senior they said they could not refund my money! You get a new student counselor about every semester because no one ever seems to work there long. When you write emails asking questions it takes forever to hear back from them. I only have three classes left to take before graduating and not one of them is offered next semester, which means I will be stuck there longer than expected. Seriously think about attending this school, yes it is conveniently downtown and they accept anyone, but the education you receive is not worth what you pay.

I should add a caveat before I continue mentioning that I did not actually attend Argosy, but rather toured it and had enough infomation in that one hour tour to make me say «hell no». I was looking into a Masters Degree program here and went for a tour. Well, I felt like I was having someone try to sell me a car rather than show me a school. They tried to get me to «put down a deposit» the same night, and asked me if I wanted to start in two weeks. Interesting. Their program was quite expensive and, from what I’ve heard, not really very reputable. The lovely sales associate, I mean admissions counselor, was even kind of to call me several times within the following days to find out if I was still interested. I guess «NO» means different things to different people.

Please do not go to Argosy University! They are a for-​profit school, which explains their harassment tactics. I was naiive when I applied to three of their sites, Chicago, Seattle, and San Francisco. Thank god my top choice (not an Argosy campus) accepted me because otherwise I would pay through the nose for either a useless degree (Seattle campus is NOT APA accredited) or face the ridicule in my professional career for having been associated with such an unprofessional joke of a school.
I flew to San Francisco from my hometown in Michigan for an in person interview. My interview was booked for two months in advance. When I showed up, the admissions staff gave me a tour, and then gave me the run-​around for a half hr because my interviewer had not shown up yet! I was on time for my interview, but for a while I was led to believe my interviewer was running late. Then I was finally informed that I would not be having an interview because the faculty member did not show up, and there was no one else free to interview me. The program director was there, but was «with a student» and couldn’t be bothered.
I am so appalled at this school. I must say the only time I was treated with professionalism was at the Chicago campus. However, I am breathing a sigh of relief that I am no longer in danger of being associated with Argosy.

I found Argosy when I was searching for information on graduate schools. Shortly after I filled out the information request on their website I received an email saying they would contact me shortly. Sure enough early the next morning somebody called me. Because I was attempting to explore all of my options I agreed to go to Argosy for a tour of the campus. While the people I met were nice, I did feel pressure to begin the application process. Initially I did have a positive impression of Argosy and it is quite close to my house, however, they soon came to the point of harassing me. I would get a call every other day asking me how I was progressing on my application. Then every time they received part of my application (transcripts, letters of recommendations, etc) I received not one, but two phone calls to update me. Then when I didn’t answer their phone calls I received an email. Then I received an email from their Financial Aid representative telling me that part of my application was missing because I hadn’t applied for Financial Aid (I wasn’t intending in receiving Financial Aid). I responded back stating that I wasn’t planning on applying for aid. In addition the Dean of the College of Education also wanted to interview me (despite the fact that I met with him the first time I had visited campus). He also explained that the state was changing the requirements for my program (a masters in Educational Leadership with a Type 75 certification) but that they weren’t sure if this would effect me. A week later I get an email saying that the state had just informed them (in July) that the changes needed to take effect for students enrolling in the fall term, however, they didn’t know what these changes would be. Why would I commit to a program that didn’t know what the program would be when I was supposed to start the program in a month? This was the only university that told me this. I know the requirements for a Type 75 are changing, however, it was supposed to start in 2013. By this point I had become quite angry with all of this contact. All I had wanted was some literature to read over to help me make my decision. While they did make a favorable impression at first that good first impression was quickly lost. I also spoke with one of my good friends who just received her masters in Higher Education Administration. She stated that Argosy is known for that because as a for profit university they will work very hard to get your business. Which is why it was more expensive than every other university I looked at and why they were so obsessive about contacting me. She advised me to stay away from Argosy as she knows several people who have had experiences similar to mine.

Ok, so I admit that I did not actually attend this school, but I am currently in the process of searching for graduate schools, and this one came up. I filled out a little form on their website asking for additional information, thinking that they would just send an informational brochure to my home address. Instead, I received two emails, one of which informing me that someone from the school would be calling me shortly. Since I was at work, and had provided my home number, my boyfriend ended up getting the calls — all ten of them (I checked the caller id — he wasn’t exaggerating). Every time they called, he told them I wasn’t home, and they just hung up. Finally, he told them I would not be out of work until 5pm. Promptly at 5:01, the phone rang again. Obviously I wasn’t home yet. They finally caught me close to 7pm, and I told them to just put something in the mail, I couldn’t talk on the phone at that moment.
The next morning, the phone rang again at 8am. I again told the person I was leaving for work, and to just put something in the mail. The girl told me she couldn’t do that until someone spoke with me on the phone first, and that someone could call me on Saturday. When I got to work, I emailed the original admissions officer who contacted me and asked to be removed from their list, because I was not happy about the number of calls. I did not receive a response. Saturday rolls around, and of course, the phone rings. I told the admissions officer that I just wanted to receive a brochure, but she insisted on trying to ask me questions about why I was interested in that particular program. I told her I didn’t want to do a phone interview, and that if they couldn’t send me anything in the mail without harassing me first, then to just take me off the list. She hung up without a word.
To make a long story short, this school uses harassment tactics to get their student body, which is a HUGE turnoff for me. It’s unprofessional, and probably pushes more people away that it does to lure them in. I can only imagine what sort of things they do when someone misses a tuition payment…

This is a for-​profit school formed by a merger of 3 for– profit schools– American School of Professional Psychology, the University of Sarasota, and the Medical Institute of Minnesota. Campus is in Michigan Plaza, which is not an ideal college setting and has had a scandal involving alleged plagiarism. I’d invest money in a not for profit school-​better chance of a quality education.

Argosy University is a unique and interesting concept in higher education and is very much a fine Chicago School. The address is actually listed wrong on Unilocal as Argosy has recently moved to 225 N. Michigan Ave, downtown. I like Argosy because it offers a blended model for Psychology courses, as well as counseling education. For example, a class is about 7.5 weeks long, and students are expected to spend at least two weekends on campus, for each course. Argosy recently revamped their entire library system. The school also provides a tutors for students, and there are many computers for student usage in both the library and labs.
The instructors at Argosy are terrific and most are currently work in social services or are employed as psychotherapists. Argosy may not be as popular as University of Chicago, Depaul or Loyola, but in time I see them really taking off. A really good peson to talk about admissions and the school is a person named Ivy that works in the admissions dept.