UMGS struggles

[StoicJ]

UMGC student here.

UMGC caters heavily to GI Bill folks, and as I understand it offers face-to-face courses overseas to military personnel. Don't know, but that may be where a lot of that "advertising" money is going- expensive targeted marketing to military, maybe even high-dollar pitches to some even more specific niches.

UMGC is also a Guild Education provider client. I took a part-time job recently, and my employer uses Guild. I let Guild know of 4 programs I was interested in. The 4 schools contacted me, and even though UMGC wasn't my top choice initially, the advisor assigned to me was all over it like no other. She pretty much made it so I had no reason NOT to choose UMGC over the others.

The one sorta big drawback was Guild's start date for UMGC is in January, vs October for some of the other unis. UMGC took quite a few ACE credits. They took my Google IT cert for a couple of courses including an upper-level.