I enjoyed going to this school. Everyone knew each other and I made best friends for life. Not to mention I received a great education that I am proud of! My instructors were excellent and I was in the class of 2000!!!!!
Psychology major from California!
As a current student, I have talked highly of Paine on national news but I promise you I regret it. Where do I start? Oh, here. The professors are lazy and don't send emails or grade assignments for weeks and sometimes months after they are due. They don't show up to class and have the nerves not to send an email and then if they do show up, it is 15 minutes or more later. Next, the faculty is lazy and won't respond to complaints until 90 days later or not at all. The professors cheat students out of grades and nothing is done. The dorms are horrible for $6,000 plus added to tuition. They don't have any privacy and it come with one stove (it may be broken) and a refrigerator in the WHOLE dormitory building. The classroom promethean boards or projectors have not worked for the last 2 semesters that i've been there. You can't even sit in the lunchroom if you don't have a meal plan during lunch hours (which doesn't stay open long, but i guess that's most HBCUs). I have a had a professor who suffers with a bad case of PTSD and he forgets what he says. I have also had a professor who lied about extra credit and did not give it to the students who did the work (by the way that appeal for that grade has been going on since December and they still have not resolved it). OMG! Can someone tell when extra credit wasnt worth anything? I'll wait. They have horrible potholes throughout the campus ( like equators on Mars). Its so much I can honestly say, so Ill be back.
An outstanding experience during my degree studies at this wonderful Institute. It was an wonderful experience. Wonderful school college caring staff.
Paine University is the worst school in Georgia, and in the country. Less than 10% of students graduate. The average GPA is only 2.6! The school begs for money each year, but then wastes it on sports and the campus. This fall, the school couldn't even pay it's employees. Paine's football team was shut down, the doors will be shut next.
Worst school I have ever been to!!! I went back in 2013 for one semester and their saying I have to pay $10,124 or I can't get my transcript and the dorms and classes are horrible I wasn't even taking the classes I needed!!
Proud magna cum laude grad Class of 1989 who majored in Biology and Chemistry. I was a motivated, focused student who received inspired instruction from dedicated scholars who taught me to reason, analyze and draft a compelling argument. Its small class size and communal setting in Augusta provided me the foundation to excel at Harvard University, go on to study at Brown University, work in Pharmaceutical Manufacturing QA, and safeguard public health as a Compliance Officer with the FDA. I am proud to call myself a Paineite knowing my HBCU alma mater, though resource constrained, offers a solid liberal arts education that prepares alumni to have promising careers.
Here at the College watching their Homecoming festivities and cheering as I watch the basketball games. But the foul mouth disrespectful students of Paine (some not all) college makes me sad as a father of a college student. Not standing during the National Anthem. The need to curse in every sentence. It saddens me that students of this fine college would behave in such a manner.
Currently attending Paine College and love it, I'm still proud to have been a returning student despite all of the personal issues w/ the school. Make no mistake the controversy is not an overall representation of the school or the students, we all are hoping that it will just be "the past" at some point.(2015)
This is a fine institution and I recommend it highly. The staff really care about the students.
Daphne Hayes
Horrible College!!!! The federal fraudulent activity that goes on at this college is unreal!!!! The govt needs to close this "school" immediately!!!! Not enough characters on this forum to explain my issue with this "school"! Parents please don't enroll your kids into this college!!! If so it'll be the worst mistake you've ever made!!!!
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