SPSCC Reviews

I love this school it is the best school ever I studied there for three quarters

Some great teachers- plenty of not so great teachers.
Impossible to contact people, and staff will just keep referring you to someone else who refer you to some else and so on.

Limited facilities, administration will run you in circles, there is not enough parking (sometimes I just have to skip class because there are no spaces on the entire campus), some instructors are incredibly lazy, much more of the 'teacher' than 'professor' vibe in general. I have yet to have a course that I felt was worth the money.

The tuition at this school is way too high for what you get. Don't go here.

I have had to go through so much fuss to schedule classes. Almost to the point that it's not worth it. Over E-mail, they are not timely at all, and over phone it's even worse. Only way to get something done is to go in person.

Some departments at SPSCC are great, and some need improvement. Good location off the 101.

The library is an excellent place to find some quiet time to study.

I'm in college algebra. It seems like none of the tutors know what they're doing, and the ones that do have favorite people that they like to tutor and will ignore me for over an hour at a time. When I finally do get help they never actually listen to my questions they see a problem and their ears turn off.

First course. Taking music THEORY and joined the chorus too! Wonderful fun.

Terrible college. I went here in 2011 and I hated it. Teachers push, push, and push. They give you no time to study the material. When you work 40 hours a week and have 3 classes, they need to not overload you so much that you can't process what needs learned.

My wife began college here Fall 2015. We took out a student loan at the beginning of the quarter. We checked the portal every day for over a month. She went in to find out what was wrong, and no one could give her a straight answer. She called, she went in and after a dozen times she finally found out that the person in charge of loans had a family emergency and couldn't do her job. So then she was told they would be worked on and processed that week. Well, we had to wait over a month from that point to get our funds.

They didn't give us our full amount, so we took out another loan for Winter only. It was a smaller amount and we turned in the paperwork at the beginning of January 2016. We still have nothing and it's the end of February. You talk to 15 different staff members, you get 15 different answers. And the work study students are ignorant and don't know anything at all. They are of no help. You ask them something, even basic, and they tell you to check back tomorrow or something.

My wife had a course that one of her assignments had her meet the professor in person, and it was an online course! Hello, online means no face to face.

Did I mention they try to cram as much cirriculum as possible down your throat? Teachers need to realize students have other responsibilities. This is an issue that many people from this college have mentioned, so I'm not alone in this.

It's a shame this is the only junior college in town. I would avoid this place. Driving half an hour to TCC or Centralia College is a much better option.

I'm about to start my 3rd quarter, and so far it's been a great experience. Teachers are helpful, as well as all the help offered in the writing center and math lab. My advisor has been wonderful so far, helping me set up a academic plan to follow so I don't waste my time. My financial aid advisor is also pretty prompt, as long as you take into account that you're not the only student and that emails take time to address. Though everytime I've had an issue I've just scheduled a meeting with either advisor.(no wait time that way) The Olympia campus is beautiful, and they have a bunch of events to take part in. Overall I have had a great experience, I feel like you get out what you put in. :)

I loved it here. Great professors. Beautiful campus. I'd recommend it to anyone.

Financial aid office is unethical, manipulating, and not objective. I was a homeless college student my sophomore year here, and I went for them for help. They thought I was lying, misled me, and they were not responsive. Most people here are middle class and live with their parents, or running start. I was on my own and didn't know what I was doing. Through trail and error I finally got a handle of it but by then I was already transferring to an university and it was too late to get any grants or loans, which would of made my life a lot easier. I was still a kid then, and I believe colleges should do more to help people in situations like this. All young people have a lot of potential for learning and growth, but they lack wisdom. Help younger social economnomily disadvantage students find there way, they already have the deck significantly stacked against them.

I have not taken any classes yet however if the financial aid department is any indication of the way they conduct business or teach classes it will be a long two years. Best advice to give is not to listen to financial aid, gather every document you have and turn it in. Otherwise you will be jumping through hoops trying to get financial aid

Great school but advisors are not on top on replying or helping new students I m soon being a new student and my advisor never reply to me when I don t know the public college system and I m a private college student and giving a public college a try. That s so far my review and experience one stop is on point to help you with everything it makes your first impression why need an advisor if one stop respond quicker? During NSAR non of the advisors never helped me and had to figure it out on my own like why did I have to show up something that was useless information or understanding the system? I just mainly have an issue over the advisors. Mostly when you try to put a matter and they try to make you the victim about. Mostly financial aid, it s financial aid it s no brainer. If all documents not there just say not make a sob story about it and make me like I m the trouble. Really thinking to go back to private college cause they do treat you like that.

This place greatly prepared me for WSU. I did running start here and graduated in 2010. I couldn't agree more with another user's comment about the foreign language department. If you have the chance to take Japanese or ASL here, DO IT! The teachers are amazing. A lot of my friends complained about nightmare English teachers but Asman and Schneider were wonderful teachers with assignments that prepared me to be an English major at WSU. Honestly, they are part of the reason I decided to be an English Teacher when my Choir Teacher dream was falling apart.

I had high hopes for the concept of running start because the faculty deceived me into thinking that it was an upgrade from high school, when in reality it regressed my education by about five years. The only way to survive any of the humanities or english courses is to nod your head politely in response to whatever wholly partisan political dogmas that the professor decides to shoehorn into class for the day. If you grew up believing that honesty and hard work lead to success then I am sorry for you because this school seems to treat the concept of sincerity like they treat white people: something to loathe and spit at on campus grounds.
By merely showing up to class I was above what had been expected of me and my peers. Rather than teach relevant information to the course, my professors would plug the non-peer reviewed writings of their friends and colleagues rather than anything with a motecome of reliability. The fact that anyone gave this institution a positive rating means that they've either never been there or have successfully entered into something that for all intents and purposes resembles a cult, and a shallow, lazy cult at that.

My classes are very enjoyable and structured, my professors are caring and will adapt to your situation. The administration is horrific the One Stop Help is worse than Comcast and Microsoft customer service combined. They keep giving me the run around and keep redirecting me instead of actually helping me. They kept asking for paperwork I had already submitted, they were agressively denying that I did so. I asked them to check my file, they found it all. That was 3 weeks of waiting well spent. In week 7 of the quarter and I still have none of the financial aid I was depending on.

Financial aid office and advisors are not helpful and will pocket your money. I've emailed and called many times to get an indirect answer. They tell me to pay a fee and if I ask for what they explain how to pay it. They always say I can go to the one stop shop for questions but I have a full time job, sorry I can't.
This school will not go out of their way to help anyone.

You better know your way around the paperwork otherwise you'll be paying them their bonuses

Very disorganised, and not good customer service at all !

I went and voted for the first time in my life at the drive-up voting ballot they have set up super easy there wasn't anyone in line so I recommend going there and doing that

Their advising department leaves MUCH to be desired. They really need to take a look at other colleges' models on providing what is a pretty crucial service for students in navigating the whole college experience.

I'm starting my second year of college here. Financial aid is a joke but the staff is really helpful. I loved all my professors so far and although they do give out a lot of work, the assignments tend to be easy. For example, I had an 20 page paper to write, my professor gave us two weeks to do it. I had trouble and she helped me work out blocks of time so I could write my paper. The student body itself is open and welcoming. There are plenty of activities to do and great people to meet.

Parking is not so good but i guess thats everywhere. Beautiful new science building. However I do not feel that the staff that works there in the offices don t really cares much about their students success. I had a question about my transcripts and the lady that was supposed to help didn t even let me explain my situation. She just didn t let me talk!