Eric DeLand

Review of Rocky mountain college of art ...

I attended part-time online courses in the spring ...

I attended part-time online courses in the spring of 2019. The first course I had took some getting used to but was fine. My second course was an absolute waste of time. The online course was an out-of-date version and videos and links were broken or incorrect for the first few weeks. Also, I literally had to ask our instructor to stay on top of our grades. Even going into midterms and final projects she was weeks behind and was NOT responding via email. She was going through a family crisis and gave up on our course almost entirely. I withdrew from the program after this. I could not trust the staff to do their job and provide the value expected form a college of such "renown" and "high ranking." I felt isolated and still feel taken advantage of.

I spoke to the Chair of the Animation Department, Sean Brown, about these issues and he was hardly sympathetic. The instructor told me she was in touch with the Chairman but by the end of the course Sean Brown had only just discovered this issue was happening. I asked why there weren't any quality control measures in place to prevent this and he said he didn't have time. Overall, I'm SO disappointed that I ever thought this was a good idea.

I also wrote this review once before, but it looks like they scrubbed it from this list. So, I would like to tell this story again so that future artists aren't tricked into wasting time and money on useless online courses at RMCAD. For some extra perspective, just for these two courses, I now owe $4,880.80 in student loans. Never go here.