MSU Denver Reviews

I have issue after issue with multiple departments in this school. They send you in circles and do absolutely everything they can to NOT help situations you re in. They would rather pin it off to someone else, who also doesn t care to help. If I didn t have as many credits as I do, I would transfer out! I tell everyone I know to stay clear of this school! Not worth the headache or turmoil! They don t care about you as a person let alone a student, and they won t help or guide you through anything!

Unfortunately, I would never recommend this university. Myself, my husband, and friends have all struggled with the fact that MSU adds requirements to degrees without grandfathering students in, which caused a delay of graduation for all of us. The only saving grace for MSU in my opinion is their Individualized Degree Program, without it, it would have taken me almost two extra years to graduate. (I will add that I had several incredible professors, but this does not change my stance on the University as a whole). My husband is a current student in the engineering department and every semester for the past three years, his advisors have told him he would graduate a semester later than the previous, with the most recent advisor adding on and extra year for him. This has been because previous advisors have told him incorrect courses to take or forgotten to tell him to take courses that were prerequisites for future courses. My friend is in a completely different department and when she had about one year left, they added the requirement of a minor to her degree adding an extra year and a half to her schooling. I m convinced that sadly, all MSU cares about is getting more and more money out of people rather than the success of their students.

I m am currently in my last year at MSU and I am going to be graduating with nothing but resentment and hatred towards this university. You are constantly belittled with the political opinions of the administration s, sending you useless emails and phone calls on their political views. The fees within the university are confusing and almost impossible to understand/find information about. If you have classes on campus you pay for parking every day (currently around 5-7$ depending on where you park) which means you are gonna be paying around 500$ a semester just in parking. MSU has no regard for the safety of their students refusing to close campus even when other school districts/ universities in the area do for bad weather or threats (Sol Pais threat). The overall academics of the school are average with most of the class sizes, professor ratings and knowledge, and degrees being pretty good. Then there is Student Success Center that holds the admission and financial aid for the university. I have not had one single semester since entering this university were some problem has not arisen with financial aid (forms that they have lost, slow processing speed, inaccurate dispersement dates) so if you are paying for college with any type of loans be prepared for your loans to be delayed and mismanaged for about a month or sometimes two. The campus itself is quite pretty being in the heart of Denver however it does bring a lot of traffic from Denver as well so there is a police reporting an incident almost ever other week so I d be cautious at taking night classes. Along with all this, in the middle of the COVID pandemic MSU has raised their tuition meaning that you will be paying more for no in person classes, never seeing/ using the campus or amenities (which by the way you pay for also in fees) , and some professors who barely know how to use a computer. In the end this is what I d say about MSU
Pro:
Still cheaper then CSU and CU
Pretty but somewhat dangerous campus
Close to Denver
Average academics

Con:
Terrible administration
Terrible management
Bad parking and parking cost
Hidden/ confusing fees

If I could start over I would have spent the more money for a well run university CSU, CU, UCCS, UNC or save a bunch of money and going to ACC
Hope this helps everyone understand what you are walking into.

I didn t like MSU Denver too much. I used to go to CCD for a semester and when I came here no one really cared about me. I talked to many advisers about transferring credits and NO ONE DID ANYTHING. So I couldn t take the classes I needed and I was limited to what I could take. I also had some of the worst professors who never responded back to emails and made online school more difficult than It was. Also it s a commuter school so you can t really make friends and even if I tried to join a club no one was welcoming.
I don t recommend this school to anyone. They don t work to transfer your credits and no one responds to anyone. It was a waist of money and I m so glad to be transferring. It sucks how this school made other colleges try to transfer my credits. Very unprofessional and rude. I did like one thing. The diversity was good.

I work for Auraria Higher Education Center which is located in the heart of Downtown Denver. The campus is the home of three state universities and is the only one in the country with 3 colleges on one campus. The state of Colorado are the stewards so our job is to take care of the entire campus and it's structures.

SOCIAL MEDIA WILL REACH OUT AND ASK FOR WHAT HAPPENED AND WILL NEVER RESPOND BACK TO YOU. I'm leaving ANOTHER 1 star review because you don't deserve to exist.

60% of professors are good, the other 40% are nothing compared to my high school teachers (Cherry Creek HS). That s sad. 75% of staff need to go to the 60% of professors that are incredible and get some common sense and etiquette. Literally act like little prepubescent teens. I had a staff member I have never even met In my life email me about some weird opinion she had of me. You re a grown woman and you act like this? Were you raised in a barn? Staff act like this at a university and they wonder why student engagement is down? Studies have shown a direct correlation. Even in one of my classes I had a professor share with us a study about the same issue. Use your own databases to figure that one out. I wonder how many staff members it would take to figure this one out... RIP MSU Denver. The dream of creating an actual university is there, but you guys are far from it 7 years later. Still act like a low level state college. Way to represent Denver like this. I was born here and am embarrassed for you.

(Response to University reply that disappeared below) No thanks. I have a laundry list of issues that need to be resolved. I go talk to this person that person than this person than that person. Take a guess how many issues were resolved? None. You guys do not put the student first. You guys allow staff members and teachers egos to rule above policies and practicality. All I am asking for is basic human decency and some professionalism I expect from a University.

So far so great. My first colledge experience has been during covid times. MSU goes the distance to help the students get the best chance for sucess.

DONT GO TO THIS UNPROFESSIONAL SCHOOL. My significant other is being charged for classes SHE didn t sign up for, but an advisor did. And guess what, the school has NO RECOLLECTION of who signed her up for classes. Therefore we owe the school a lot of money. PLEASE go somewhere else like CU Denver or literally any other school. This school should be shut down, and the president needs to never run a school again. Thanks for listening and take this advice seriously, this school SUCKS