EC School of Health Sciences grads & students

[marianne202]

Welcome! I'm in the BSHS at EC and will finish this month. I know of at least one other member here that just finished in August. We both started about the same time. I chose to do the BSHS with a specialization in management. I wanted the MBA bridge you are talking about since I first heard about it at an alumni webinar last year, but when they finally approved it and starting enrolling this month, I would have had to do a lot more classes to get finished with it. So I decided just to stay where I was and finish. So I can't speak to this new program specifically. I will tell you that I had to re-do my schedule several times and didn't finish as quickly as I wanted because EC cancelled two classes several times within a few weeks of registration opening. So my plan had to keep changing, because each class is usually only offered twice a year.

I can tell you that I know they don't have many grads and I doubt many students since they have been waiving the enrollment fee for almost 18 months that I know of, to increase enrollment. I also have seen the same students in most of my classes, with a large number just disappearing after a few weeks. I mean close to half or more drop out. The courses in the BSHS were ok. I did test out of the HR course and the Research methods in psych, so I only took the other 7 core and concentration classes. I had a few horrible teachers who didn't care and didn't put forth any effort. They didn't do any real teaching in the courses either. Their course management system is Blackboard/WebCt based. But I will warn you their courses do have a lot of errors in them. Wrong texts listed, syallabi that don't match the ones listed under the course descriptions when you register. There are errors in the exams and the course content. I also found some instructors didn't even know the course content! Sometimes I would wait 2-3 weeks to get grades and 4-5 days or more to get a response to an email. I did have a few good instructors, but overall, they were not what I would call quality instructors with real world knowledge invested in student success.

Ironically, I was worried that when I got to grad school, I wouldn't be able to handle it because of not really feeling like I learned much at EC. I had heard grad school was just regurgitating undergrad info. but my grad school is actually "teaching" in their online classes and I'm getting much better response and feedback from their instructors. I'm currently in the MHA program at Bellevue University in NE and so far I would highly recommend it.

EC was quick and cheap with the enrollment fee waiver. You do get $15 per credit hour credit towards graduation for all the classes you take with them so that lowers the costs some more, but the classes are expensive, so test out of what you can and if you can take classes locally cheaper for your core and concentration, I would do it and then transfer them in. Just get prior approval. I did get approval for all the classes at a local univerisity, but the local school wasn't accepting any non-degree seeking students and to get accepted I would have had to wait year, so I'm graduating before I could have started there. Overall, I might do EC again, but just realize you may be banging your head against a wall several times along the way. The EC HS school also only had one advisor until a few months ago, so where it would take 2-3 weeks to get a response from my advisor it has now lessened to about 1 week. Feel free to PM me if you have any other questions. Good luck!