7 Worst Online Colleges You Should AVOID (2023)

This man went from roasting bad song lyrics to roasting bad online universities. You're a legend, Cliff.

When the military doesn't like you for your deceptive recruiting practices, you got a problem.

I forgot all about DeVry. Even as a kid, I thought it was scammy

I really wanted to give a shout-out to Collage Hacked! After watching one of your videos I was inspired to go on my hacking journey and I just graduated WGU with a BSBAITM in a total time of just 94 days! I transferred in 71 CU and I did 49 at WGU in just 30 days! Thank you very much for making these videos!

Strategic Education owns Strayer, Capella, and Sophia. As we all know, Sophia brings down the cost of the tuition. Sophia learning is accessible to Strayer and Capella students for FREE. Before COVID, it was not, but it still was worth the money. I love Strayer and have learned a lot and seen a lot of success from people who graduate. I have five more classes, and I’ll have my bachelor's.

Thank you for making this video! I had a great experience with SNHU and am sticking with them for my masters.

I’m at APU and not having a bad time. The material is quality and the instructors grade fairly so you do have to actually try but that’s a good thing. Is it a top school? Obviously not. All colleges make false promises honestly. A college degree checks a box but doesn’t guarantee a successful career. That being said I haven’t found them to be viewed negatively or any more negatively than other online schools. Higher education as a whole in this country has its flaws. It’s not accessible for the most part and we seem to value education only when it’s specific degrees or schools because being educated in this country is more about elitism than it is about education lol. Overall I still prefer WGU to most other options as a non traditional student. APU is by far not the best school in the country but it isn’t the worst. That would be Ashworth College 😂

University of Phoenix was horrible. I hated it and dropped out. Do not recommend! My coworker got a business degree for 80k 😳and she's not even using her degree smh

I can't speak for American Public University overall. However, I completed 18 graduate hours in American Government through APU and was very satisfied. The university is regionally accredited. This enhanced my Master of Arts in History (I earned via a traditional, seated program) and allows me to teach American Government classes. It was win win for me. I can't say anything about the university other than what I experienced.

Unrelated, but I’m a recent Liberty grad with BS in Interdisciplinary Studies, whom is now awaiting MBA program acceptance. Highly recommend the “Chipotle” degrees.

I appreciate you calling out these organizations. I especially appreciate your the time you put into these videos to prevent others from falling into these federal money schemes.

APU/AMU is the college hacked through the USAF TA, as I completed an interdisciplinary AA and that also helped completing my Community College of the Air Force (CCAF) AAS in Criminal Justice. Now I'm just 13 classes away from my BS in criminal justice at Liberty, as the AMU courses transferred with no issue. So In my situation AMU would not be one to avoid and I honestly applaud, the ease of transfer credits to LU was so simplistic. All it cost was $10 for the official transcripts to be be sent to Liberty University. I'm still proud of my two associates degrees and continuing my higher education which will help my career in the Air Force and more importantly life after the military.

First time I've heard of college rankings by lack of scandalls 😂. Great content as always!

Someone I went to undergrad with got his MBA from Welch's program at Strayer and is at Oracle now. That's the only for-profit degree I've witnessed employers respect with my own eyes. I appreciate you calling more attention to what are widely seen as diploma mills. I for one have never thought that applying a pure-profit model to education was at any point in time a good idea ETA: SNHU gets a pass too. At least you can ACTUALLY go to college there and live on campus...if you so choose

I am so glad that you called out AMU/APUS. I almost attended their school as they have some of the best advertising targeted at our Military and Veteran communities. I know many of my colleagues who have degrees from AMU. After AMU evaluated all of my credits from the seven other colleges that I had attended, they only wanted to give me 81 transfer credits. When they found out I was actively enrolled in a local community college to take one of the prerequisites that I needed, my AMU counselor got very upset with me. This was a red flag! Luckily I had two friends who had graduated from Excelsior and convinced me to go there. Next Month I get to Walk at commencement at the ripe age of 53 years old. I am all signed up to do my Master's Degree at King's College London here in England this Fall of 2024..... Thanks to College Hacked for all of the great advice and entertainment along the way.... Love your channel.

Going to Capella now for a BBA... I wish I hadn't... they lied about how to get into Flexpath and now I've spent most of the money I had for school. They paid for Sophia so at the end of the month I'll have over 100 credits there. 80 more to graduate!

I know someone who's going through University of Phoenix for associate degree and claims to love it. She has a 4.0, only been in for a few months and already is 40 percent complete. Weird.

I think APUS has such a low grad rate because of their American Military University side. In the Air Force many students sign up for AMU to get enough credits for their CCAF and then don't really care about going further. Also, their is incentive in the military to just take a class for your performance report. This leads to people taking one class a year just check a box for their performance report.

I’m so glad I found your channel! Thank you very much for this great comparison video. Very detailed and informative. If all those schools are terrible, then what is a legit online university option for people with full time jobs? Do you have a video on what are the best options?

There are a few other notable online schools that were included in the 2022 list of loan cancellation schools. These include Grand Canyon University, Purdue University Global, South University, Walden University, Everglades University. Even though Purdue University Global is now a public non-profit institution most of their services are actually administered by Kaplan Higher Education (a for-profit company which previously managed Kaplan University).