Louisiana State University of Alexandria

This review is strictly for the online program at LSUA. If you're currently googling online programs and uncertain which to choose from, please read this. The online program at LSUA needs to be revamped. Between the program itself and the professors "teaching" it, it needs to be thrown away and redone from scratch. All of it. Here are the various reasons you should NOT choose LSUA for your degree. Money. Even if you have a grant, scholarship, whatever, you will be paying for so many unnecessary fees. Fees that don't even apply to you as an online student. Why am I paying a technology fee? An educational fee? A sports fee? On top of tuition, you are required to pay for the online access codes and all of your tests, including the one at graduation, which lets LSUA know just how well they are doing (none of these are included in tuition). It's a survey basically and you have to pay for it. Every test you take for your classes, you're paying for it. $13-50 depending on the class. Do the math. That adds up. Access codes are a joke. I just paid the school for a professor to teach me, yet I'm paying $150 extra for McGraw Hill to teach me the entire class (again, not included in tuition). Curriculum. I haven't learned anything in this program. The professors don't teach. They reuse videos from COVID years. They barely interact with you and when they do, it's strictly via chatGPT. The curriculum is basically the same across the board. Answer forums, take 1,000 quizzes and then cram for the midterm and final. Walk away learning absolutely nothing. Professors. In my 3 years at LSUA, I have had a handful of professors who actually have cared about the student's learning and well-being. Most act like you're inconveniencing them. Because god forbid an online student pop out of hiding with a question. Many professors are on a power trip. "You will call me doctor." "You won't make it very far. Might want to rethink your major." "I won't be hosting a review this week." Which also happens to be the last week of class, project due, final due and a thousand other assignments due. Yet the professor can't be bothered to spend one hour of their time to go over the material. (This professor only held 3 reviews in a 7-week class.) Lack of administration oversight. Despite contacting administration/various department heads about different issues, no one acts on anything. Should you contact anyone about an important issue, you'll be met with, "it's being handled" or "I guess that's how that professor operates" or even straight up lies, just to shoo you away. ChatGPT. Your professors and faculty will communicate with you only through chatGPT. Even though you'll spend thousands of dollars at this university in hopes of a professor teaching you, it'll all just be funneled through the infamous A.I. platform. An absolute joke, if you ask me. In the end, I suggest you go with a different university. This one is a complete waste of time. I guarantee, at the end of the program, you and all of your classmates will be saying, "This program did not prepare me in the slightest for the real world. I have learned nothing." You also won't find any jobs because I'm pretty sure everyone knows that LSUA's program is a sham.

I earned my Bachelor's degree at LSUA and loved the four years that I spent on it's campus. The professors were great, and the campus was very clean. I worked as a student worker, therefore I met a lot of the faculty and staff. Almost all of them were very kind and helpful.

Amazing campus! Grounds are beautiful, and the faculty and staff are very welcoming.