Azusa Pacific University Rankings by Salary Score™

I would avoid enrolling in the ELM program at APU if I could go back in time. The school is extremely unorganized that makes unannounced, constant, and changes that do not ask the students for any input before implementing them. My cohort is constantly the "guinea pig group" that are test subjects for new ideas and schedules that usually do not make any sense on why they would change something that already is working very well. The school expects us to be extremely available and flexible while not being flexible... Read More themselves. We have no chance of missing a clinical day or class without facing repercussions or making up missed days which makes no sense, how would we be able to control when we are sick or something significant happens in our lives? Most classes include things like assignments that are just a huge waste of time with no relevance. Even some classes like our Christianity course, are stretched out to being 8 hours long in person when it could be done in 2-3 hours online. They love wasting your time. There is essentially no communication between the school and the students. If there is a complaint coming from the student or some kind of inner cohort conflict, they will not even investigate or gather more information about what is going on before making illogical decisions that just hurt everybody else. There are some good instructors that are extremely smart and kinder than others of course though! I do enjoy the small cohort size as well. There are just little things they do that add up such as not splitting up our cohort evenly for clinical so one group always gets the short end of the stick and has to go to clinicals over a longer period of time into finals while the other group finishes in the first half of the semester and gets the rest of the time off. Also random charges for things like textbooks we don't even need sneak up on us with no warning or anything from the school. All of this is just made worse considering how much we are paying and how many of us are going to be in substantial debt for the subpar program. Certain students are favored or are treated with much more leniency than everyone else which is really frustrating. Exceptions are made for certain students while pushing and holding the rest of us to such high expectations, it comes across as very hypocritical. Especially because even if a student's attitude or behavior is unacceptable or they are failing a class by not putting in the effort the rest of us are, it is swept under the rug which I believe is financially motivated. The biggest gain from the program is the friends I have made that support each other. I could keep going on and on about the downfalls of the program....just save your money and smarts and go somewhere else!

This review is for the mft program located in the Azusa campus. I am very disappointed with my experience at APU. The enviorment is very childish. If the faculty favor you, then you pretty much can get away with anything. However if you are the type of person that speaks up, is bold, free spirited, are not easily controlled and do not allow others to bully you, then the staff will not only dislike you but they will make it very ovbious too. Your emails will many times be ignored, many students will shy away... Read More from you, professors will be rude, and they may even speak badly about you to your site supervisors (during placement) and the list goes on. I learned much more about psychology in undergrad then I ever did in this program. The program takes on many students that are not a good fit for the program or profession and reject many others who are. Go to another school. It is not worth it.