Wharton County Junior College

"This is a warning to anyone considering WCJC for Medical Billing and Coding, they could not provide adequate educators on this subject and still proceeded with the course, instead of cancelling or postponing until they could find an actual billing and coding specialist educator. Being so new to this field I didn’t know what to look for until the red flags started to show, and soon the instructors were confirming my concern, by that point we were finishing the course. I left WCJC 1800.00 dollars less and didn’t gain any real knowledge that would have prepared me for work or even the exam. Lesson learned, but if I would have seen a review like this when I was looking for schools I would have considered other options before committing to this place. They treat education like a cattle line, once you pay, they do not care about your success afterwards. Weigh your options please!"

"The last review posted about the WCJC Dental Hygiene program was 5 years ago so, if you’re looking at reviews as a prospective student in 2023, here’s another bad review to confirm all the horrible things the last person said. Where do I begin? The intention of this review is for prospective students considering this program, if it reaches the faculty I truly hope it inspires some much needed positive changes. To begin, I have resulted in posting a review online because student feedback in the program does not hold weight, especially to the previous DH program director who is now the current Allied Health Programs department head; AKA the same person running the DH program for decades and the people above her are as well. All faculty, with a couple of exceptions, were all once students of the program. All of this being said, now you have some context as to why things are not and will not change in this program without more students speaking up, unfortunately requiring in this manner so that it cannot be denied/removed. Which they have done in the past, including on the school Facebook Page. If word gets out about how awful this program is, they will lose the only real money WCJC makes, so don’t doubt they cherry pick released information. Here are some statistics I wish I had known before I accepted entrance into this program. The average starting freshman class is 28 students. This is more students than there are clinic seats, as there are only 23 clinic operatories. In the first semester, about five students will fail out. If they didn’t, there wouldn’t be room for them in the second semester when they have to see patients in clinic. My class started with 28 and conveniently, only 23 made it to second semester. This will happen and has happened to every freshman class. The likelihood of making it to graduation is very slim, the largest graduating class was 10 students. The smallest has been close to 5 students. Most recently, it has been 7 students. Why is the graduation rate so low? I have a few theories, all with enough evidence to support any one of them. First and foremost is that the program itself is very unforgiving. You can pass lecture and clinic all semester long but if you fail your final exam in any one lecture or clinic, you fail the entire first year and have to repeat the entire first year, which can only happen once. So don’t fail your final, simple enough right? But “failing” is anything below a 75. If you make a 74 on a final? And have an average A in everything else? You still fail. They say exceptions are made (they have to), but they are not. Let’s say you pass all your lectures and clinic and your finals, you’ll definitely pass then right? Not necessarily. As a consequence of any rule broken on school grounds, such as being out of dress code (having your hair touching your face or shoulders, wearing the wrong color scrubs or shoes or socks or hairband or earrings or jewelry, having any tattoo uncovered no matter where it is or how rare the instance it has a chance to become visible is, your makeup is too heavy or bold for their liking, the list goes on) or acting “unprofessionally” (having any feelings/ thoughts/ ideas etc that go against the program, lacking knowledge of anything regarding the program, “not respecting the boundaries of an instructor” i.e. asking anything of the program director for anything during her lunch hour, and any other social situation they deem so), you will receive a “5”. A “5” is a demerit on your semester record that takes 5 points off of your average grade. Get a few of those (which isn’t hard to do because some instructors love giving them out like candy) and even if you have a 100% average, you will fail."

"Why would give a student who is paying for their classes from financial aid, and parked their vehicle in the parking lot a citation? Obviously, I am student and not just a stranger who passed by and parked their car in the parking just because. Make that make sense, please. On top of that to get the tag I waited almost 40 mins because there was nobody in the reception. They asked me to try and get that appeal so I did but I would’ve appreciated them telling me that I was gonna pay for the citation regardless instead of wasting my time filling out “an appeal form”."

"Small, but warm and homely. If you’re starting your education journey to transfer to the University of Houston here, UH is definitely much bigger, crowded, and eventful; however, WCJC is a great bridge between going directly from high school to university. It has high school classroom sizes but college level content!"

"Richmond campus is the best! Well, small sample size because I can only compare it to the Sugar Land campus. Parking is never an issue. The layout is great for getting to any class quickly. The bookstore is very homey and friendly. Taking classes here just feels really comfortable."