The counselors and advisers are great. CMU does a great job making sure students enroll on time and are prepared for class from day 1. They will call and follow up to make sure thing are done the right way. Here is where the experience goes south. Once in class you are on your own. 8 week classes look great but remember there are so many things crammed into an 8 week session that should really take 16 weeks. If your a person that works over 40 hours don't plan on doing much else. If you work 50 hours or more a week your setting yourself up for a harsh 8 weeks. To much information to absorb and not enough feedback on important assignments. I waited for over 2 weeks to receive my final grade and an evaluation on a term paper only to find out I made a documentation mistake. By then it is to late to correct the mistake. The professor said I should have received a zero when I simply made a mistake. She gave me a D for that one mistake which caused my grade to fall to a C+ . I was appalled by her response and even more so by the fact she would not let me correct my mistake. We learn by making mistakes but when our professors know we need a B average to graduate shouldn't they teach us to correct the mistake? I was at California State University, Bakersfield before CMU and will be taking classes through CSUB after this incident. I had a better experience at CSUB because classes are not rushed (10 weeks), plus CSUB is cheaper buy $500 a class and they give you proper feedback. I left CSUB because the math was a little more difficult. Boy did I make a mistake.
CMU's MSA program is built to prepare students for a wide range of administrative duties in both the public and the private sector. Some schools may be slightly less expensive, but few offer 8 concentration options (ex. Leadership, Health Services, Information Resource Management, etc.) to study from.
