Columbia College Chicago Top Questions

The only frustrating part about Columbia College Chicago is paying for tuition, even though it's the cheapest art school in the country.

In all honesty, I have not found anything frustrating except for maybe that it is impossible to attend everything as events/lectures/groups sometimes overlap with eachother and class times occasionally.

Sometimes they are not to keen on getting forms or information to students in a timely manner and it feels like the school is too focused on using online resources to get information to students and needs to a try a more personable approach.

The only thing I do not like about my school is that every teacher does not use oasis. Oasis is a site where your professors put up your grades, and tell you assignments. Everyone does not use it and it is frustrating because i would like to know my grades and I think it is a good idea for those who forgot what the assignment was.

The financial aid. They offer limited scholarships and no financial aid for most students and the students who qualify receive no more than 4,000 in aid, and I might not be able to come back next year despite my good grades in highschool and at my college last year.

Before you enroll, you're given the typical 'this school is so awesome' perspective. In reality, if you're an art & design major, the number of credits you have to take is impossible to complete in four years, which I recently had to find out on my own! There are many courses that are basically repeats of what I took in high school. The financial aid office is a mess, and no one seems to know what they're doing. Basically, you have to do a lot for yourself and make the most of it.

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Financial aid and support isn;t always helped by the school for most situations. It feels like things learned can be learned on one's own time.

The most frustrating thing about my school is that there are too many classes to take to complete one degree.

The only thing i can say is frustrating at my school is that our campus at Columbia College in Chicago consist of the whole south loop. The south loop is no less than 5 miles, so sometimes you will get a class that is on one end of the loop and have the next class on the other. Depending on how you make your schedule, you can have only a ten minute gap between classes, so you may need to Run all the way to your next class so you wont be late.