San Diego Global Knowledge University

"The staff at San Diego Global Knowledge University are very unprofessional. For months I have tried to reach out and talk to the admissions office to apply for the Full-Stack Immersive Program and I have received no help or updates on my application. The staff are HORRIBLE with communication and haven't responded to the MAJORITY of my emails asking for updates and the status of my application. The program I applied for started 2 days ago and no one told me my login portal details or if I was even accepted? However, my instructor emailed me wondering why I missed class. I have even tried calling the admissions office to no avail. The communication is extremely unprofessional for a University and makes the school look really bad. They haven't made themselves available to answer questions for inquiring students and not to mention students who are trying to attend. Look somewhere else and spare yourself the headache."

"My experiences were great. All of my instructors and the staff were very helpful. The tutor was also very knowledgeable and helpful. 10/10 would recommend to everybody."

"Instructors are extremely knowledgeable and have actual experience in their perspective fields they are teaching to fall back on. The coarse is fun and gets pretty tough towards the end. The more time you can put in studying g the more you will get out of the coarse"

"Do not recommend. The full-stack developer program curriculum is ridiculously fast-paced and it is unlikely someone without any experience will be ready to apply for a job after the program. If you a veteran, there are better options to use your GI Bill. I incurred a debt after leaving the program and enrolling at Platt College and the staff said that because the VA paid them for the whole program (I was a few days over the cutoff), they were going to keep the money. There is zero chance you will be a full-stack developer in their 7 month program...zero. I checked out a few other programs and a director of one of these web developer programs laughed when I said they had a full-stack developer program that meets three times a week for half a day each meeting. ***Response to your response: I am surprised that you are surprised that I would leave a review after previous communication. I waited a year until I had more experience coding and with web development in general before I left a review as I wanted to ensure a sense of fairness and truth in my review. In that time, I have contacted multiple institutions, all accredited, and they ALL say it is literally impossible to comprehend your curriculum. In fact, your instructors would have us copy and paste code because there wasn't enough instruction time to code the projects ourselves (this was a recurring theme, happened more than once). As I enter a web development bachelors program at design school next month, I am confident in my assessment above (and below). Your program has serious issues. The professors are unable to foster a true learning environment. There is not enough time for us to code and critically think through the problems ourselves. On many occasions, we were given code to copy and paste. The supplement for the curriculum was Team Treehouse, a service that costs individually $25/month. It's a great resource, but it certainly shouldn't be part of the curriculum. The students should be focused on curriculum you develop and a portfolio developed by projects created by the students completely on their own. The portfolio that's built are follow along projects that are (slang) copy pasta: the professor builds the project and we follow along. That's known as a hands-on, instructor-lead demonstration, not an actual project. Yet we're advised to add those to our online portfolios on portfolium.com. As for the refund policy, this is a VA policy, not a dissatisfied customer policy. It was my responsibility to ensure that I withdrew by a certain date or the VA would transfer the remaining funds to your program. So a simple remedy is that you could write me a check for the funds that you don't deserve. VA policy doesn't mean you need to keep the funds: you choose to hold funds for services unrendered. This may be contractually acceptable, but morally reprehensible. 3 hours daily 3 days per week is a joke. At my current design school, we meet for 4 hours 5 days per week. The bootcamp that I am considering attending in Orange County (and one I checked with in San Diego) are both AT LEAST 45 hours weekly of class time. I retract my previous statement about your program being fast-paced; rather, it's a lengthy program with too many coding languages to truly master or even be adequate with but without enough instruction time. As someone with 3 associates degrees and a bachelors with a minor from UCSD and working on a second bachelors in web dev, this school is a money grab, nothing less."

"I am a current student at this University and I could not be happier about it. The staff is wonderful and very proactive. They are available for me every time I need them; always helping me to look forward and to think in my professional future. Everybody here is very qualified for the job and I feel very comfortable learning from the courses and the skilled instructors. I was blessed to find this University that has helped me to pursue my dreams."