Fanshawe College : London
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89 Student Reviews of Fanshawe College : London
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Worked here for 31 years. Please run away as fast as you can. Now just a low class educational experience, who only want your money. Curriculum? WHAT CURRICULUM. YOU WILL ONLY GET WHAT SOMEBODY DECIDES TO MAKE UP OF THE TOP OF THEIR HEAD AT THE TIME. Co-op consisted of just getting a link to indeed sent to students. Do not waste your time or money!
I taught there for 32 years. It used to be a good school, now it is just a profit making machine on the back of international students. The diplomas are worthless.
Ineffectual, ridiculously snotty admissions staff that perceives this grossly mediocre college as Canada’s answer to MIT or Harvard. Have absolutely no clue about proper post secondary education from outstanding universities, and are borderline insulting when demanding transcripts ad nauseum for previously earned undergrad and post grad degrees in order to be admitted to this glorified high school. Would not dream of sending any relative to such a basic, embarrassing institution.
Very disappointing on so many levels. I learned more on my previous job than what they offered in any of their courses or placements. I truely regret choosing fanshawe for my studies as people acted so full of themselves for no valid reason!
The worst part was watching as other students were being targeted in class. And why on the face of earth do you need to seperate international students from domestic students unless there’s something shady going on. Fanshawe you need to reassess your staff’s mental stability before hiring or else stop claiming to be an educational institution
Very disappointing institution on so many levels. I learned more on my job than what they offered in any course or placement. I truely regret choosing fanshawe for my studies as people seemed so full of themselves for no valid reason!
The worst part was watching as other students were being targeted in class. Fanshawe you need to reassess your staff’s mental stability before hiring or else stop claiming to be an educational institution
Fanshawe could be anything BUT an educational institution. The military lead place is filled with corruption from racist , bully tolerant professors to questionable figures working in teaching possessions and sex bingo games to hosting drag shows!!!
Be wary of shady professors who try to brainwash their students’ minds with their pathetic stories and personal views, with some even pushing their own hidden agenda on some students of visible minority! ECE and ECL programs were misleading IMO. Some students were sent to placements where they were abused and treated badly with very little effort from coordinators to change that (teaching you perseverance)!!!!. After all, these programs offered a non realistic view on the reality of ECE field and I honestly didn’t benefit much from attending in person. I wish I had known that fact beforehand so I could have done it all online instead of wasting my time attending the horrible psychologist’s classes
My program is Network Security Architecture. Fanshawe college is bad choice to complete your education in computer fields. They moved the program fully-online, but the assignments are designed to be in face-to-face classes. It happens lots of times that professors do not know the answer to my question about labs. Most of their staff are not qualified to be a teacher.
Also, the city (London) is full of homeless people that makes it an unsafe city. People are not friendly here.
College cancelled the program for May 2020 intake and then moved to September 2020. Due to travel restriction during Covid-19 and my program been blended, I could not attend the college for September 2020. Since the college didn’t receive the response from me regarding the study permit, they cancelled the registration for Sept 2020. When I arrived in Canada for Winter 2021 intake and tried to withdraw myself from the program because I found a better program, Fanshawe College said I was deferred and first term fee is non-refund (approximately $9K).
Question: How will a student know about the semester deferral or college has a right to assume it’s a deferred case, if they have already cancelled the registration for Sept 2020? I was asked to reapply. Hopefully, they are able to resolve this situation.
SUCKS I went here for the film program and it was terrible!! I took the broadcasting program and learned nothing! I learned more from watching youtube videos then in class plus my teacher/professor was offal! Plus no one took classes seriously and as a hard working student having a roommate who was into partying and drinking was very distracting. Food is terrible and residence if so expensive for now reason! Don’t go here! Id be better off being a dropout and just being an intern. Although I quite liked London there were no jobs! Even for Canadian students. People only care about partying here.
RUDE SO RUDE !! NEVER REPLY EMAILS .. F**K YOU AND F**K THIS SHITTY COLLEGE
DO NOT live on residence! I had a water pipe burst in my bedroom wall and destroy my new textbooks and they refused to replace them, wouldn’t even give me the time of day when inquiring. Then I had to move to a new room and they said someone would come help me but noone did and I got fired from biz booth because of missing my shift to get my stuff out of water! And you have zero rights as a tenant there since it’s a school there is an exemption clause that allows them to do whatever the hell they want! My program was okay but I learned so much more at my job then I did from the actual course.
My question is, do teachers help if students ask? Example, someone is pulling down all 100s in math , then
suddenly gets a teacher who gives an 82. Student asks for clarification, gets arguments . Seems test are not shown to students after they are marked–what ???? are you kidding? The word –teacher –implies just that, what am I missing here? This seems to be the exact opposite of what should be expected.How does a student improve with this attitude. This takes place on line it seems. If this is true and teachers are unapproachable when asked about a mark they don’t agree with, this is just terrible. All teachers should be required to address this situation.
Fanshawe college barely makes top 100 of post secondary institutions in Canada. That is very poor.
The standard requirements for instructors is low, none require a university degree, just some post-secondary education. A poor academic staff means poor networking opportunities for students so limited job opportunities. I do hope Fanshawe College sees this and improves their standing. London is a great area for employment, just not for Fanshawe students.
Staff are lazy and don’t care at all when students are getting mistreated.
Staff also LOVE to make false accusations of academic offences when they see something they don’t like, simply because they can get away with it.
The residence is incredibly overpriced, their roommate matching systems are complete trash, the water and air quality has never been worked on, and the RA’s are ridiculous on enforcing the stupidest rules.
The classes are jokes, you don’t learn anything and you commonly get lied to about what to expect on assignments and exams.
The entire school is basically a cash grab. I mean, $400 a month for “Sex toy bingo”?? Come on, how do more people not see this? The college is only living on its reputation as a party community college.
bullying is completely tolerated at this school and they do nothing about it
Complete joke of a school. Especially the Simcoe campus with the welding techniques. The school is literally in the middle of nowhere. The teachers lack training in how to instruct kids and the office gossips about the students. Harassment is not taken seriously and neither is the curriculum.
School owes me money and has given me the run around on it for 2 months now…
If any of you actually want to be a welder, go to a private college. Costs more money but is worth it. Fanshawe is a complete joke of a school.
The College in general is a joke, but especially bad is the Fine Arts program. The instructors, both full-time and part-time, lack the skills to teach any techniques and are there just to hang out and have fun. If you’re full time it’s probably a great gig. If you can manage to con your way into an MFA somewhere you can get a job teaching at one of these crap community colleges.
In Fine Arts, the goal – especially for the first year – should be to teach the basic techniques for drawing, painting, sculpture, etc. There should be a hard-core emphasis on the basic tools needed to create art, whether fine art or commercial art. Instead we get instructors who are laughably bad at their subject, and with maybe one exception don’t or couldn’t make a living by their art if they had to. (Commercial art demands ability, and most of them lack that ability. Fine Art? Anything goes I guess.) Many of them, like Marla Botterill, care more about the stereotypical touchy-feeling hippy aspect of fine art (as she sees it). There’s a sculpture teachers who doesn’t even consider himself a sculptor anymore, but a painter. Everything is more about what you feel than being able to do anything. It’s a high school art course, but where you have to pay – an almost obscene amount given the quality of instruction and types of projects.
A Fine Art degree from a university is already pretty useless, except if you want to teach, but a Fine Art degree from a college like Fanshawe is just like flushing money down the toilet.
Fanshawe College is charging me $7078.18 for a course I never did after I was Denied a Visa. I reside in West Africa with student id 788360. I paid $7078.18 as international student tuition fees, since this amount was stated on the admission letter, that am to pay that at the due date stated. THERE WASN’T ANY DEPOSIT FEES FOR ME TO PAY, BUT RATHER, the whole semester fees to be paid as an international student. I informed the college when the embassy told me that my application was on pending queue, and will be informed if final decision was made. I insisted for tuition refund after writing an appeal letter twice. But was told by the administration of the international office that, without refusal letter from the embassy, they can’t refund my tuition paid, also, if am NOT in Canada, something can be done on my tuition refund. It has been 4 months, 2 weeks since I was DENIED A VISA and am still asking for my tuition refund but Fnshawe international office is saying that, my tuition can’t be refunded. Am to pay for a course I didn’t do? A country I’ve never been to; much less a school never attended? Is this really possible or it is because I applied to the college by myself and didn’t use an agent? But how much does an ONLINE COURSE COST?
Please, AM STILL ASKING FOR TUITION REFUND!
This college is a nothing but a cash grab. I came here to pursue Business management with a confirmed seat…upon arrival i was told that I don’t have any seat in the program I was selected in…that is despite me having paid all the fees and finished all the requirements as asked by the college. I was told to either enroll for the next batch..or to move to some other course. I had no other option. In the college the staff is least helpful and they ask students to shell out money for every little thing…from what i learn…fanshawe pays consultants good money to get international students in. So they end up over filling seats and then once students are here they are forced to change their course….consultants push students to come over here for the same reason but upon completing the course it gets hard to make a good case for getting a PR. Humber, Sheridan, George Brown and Seneca are the only colleges that are worth getting into…never fanshawe
WRIT has two main functions:
1. To allow those with high-level writing skills to test out.
2. To determine which WRIT course is appropriate for those who didn’t test out.
WRIT is not a fluency test and I’m not surprised that many native English speakers fail it. The areas analyzed likely include the following: proper grammar, complex sentence formation, logical argumentation, rhetoric, and diction.
Yes, I did test out. I also earned 80s and 90s in my essay classes at Western.
You get out of it what you put in. So far the IT program has been great. There is a lot of support for students. My only complaint is about the Writ test – they do not have any information or help on what you need to know to pass it. I found information at https://sites.google.com/view/fanshawe-writ-test/home
Okay, I don’t know what all those bad reviews are all about, probably Canadians don’t find it good enough but there’s not enough options for international students though.
For those who’s saying college is not helping you with accommodation, well – you should have enough brain to find one for yourself on your own as I did already 2 times, firstly room rent in 5 bedroom house 15 min from college and second time a 2 bedroom apartment 20 min walk to Fanshawe.
You also should have enough knowledge in finding job. No country, no college or university is going to take you and bring you to workplace saying “hey, that’s your new job, you got nothing to do and will receive 100.000$ a year”, good luck with thinking like that. There was also the review saying that Fanshawe doesn’t care about your wellbeing. Well, 2 months ago a car hit me right before exam week, and you know what? EVERY single teacher of mine sent me and email asking if I’m okay and what can we figure out together concerning passing the exams.
So stop talking bullshit about college. It’s my subjective opinion, but I find it awesome. Teachers in my major have worked with all high top hotels and can share real experience as well as service classes at those “bars” at college which gives you confidence and experience before going to a real job as a server for example. My program is Hotel and Resort Services Management and even though the volume and amount of work and projects sometimes is too much, I’m still in love with the program I chose.
Fanshawe College : London is the best college of the word
Semester has 15 week, but don’t study – first week because introduction, midterm week and week before, and final week and week before. So, in general you study 10 weeks, it is nothing.
Actually a single college is not stated good in any comment.
Then where should one go?
I am searching for aircraft maintenance engineering college and didn’t find any thing good on college times
Where to go? Where to go?
Budt
BE WARNED that it’s nearly impossible to land a temp. job in London without having a vehicle. Every general labour posting says the same thing: “Must have your own vehicle”….”Not on a bus route”….etc…
So if you’re planning on staying in town between semesters to work you better have a car. The bus system in this city doesn’t give a damn about factory workers. It’s gentrification on a city wide scale. No love for low wage workers in London at all it seems. Guess manufacturing isn’t important in a University town.
Other than that I liked my time at Fanshawe but wouldn’t even consider living in London since I prefer to be car-free and I need the option to be able to work those temp. jobs until I find something in my field. Wouldn’t go back to Fanshawe either unless it was a fast track program with no breaks as sitting around doing nothing for four months can really drain a bank account quickly.
So many other cities offer tons of public transit for getting to factories so why not London? If you NEED TO WORK between semesters pick another city with better transit options because London is a black hole work wise for anyone that doesn’t have a car. Check out the job listings on Indeed for yourself if you think I’m exaggerating.
Not to mention London has the highest unemployment rate of any big city in south western Ontario. There’s a reason 98% of grads gtfo after graduating. Can’t blame them. Only the townies stay in London when they’re done school.
the management system is too bed and they have no any strategy for the admission.
they give the offer letter to all and collect fees from all, but after when u reach at college they says that the course is full you have to change your course. Many student change the course due to college’s bullshits. I am very frustrated from their money earning plans. They play with student’s life.
Please if anyone want apply in fanshawe please don’t do this it will be worst for you.
I enjoyed my 1 year at Fanshawe, I took the Electrical Techniques program. Some of the teachers are great, JC, Al and Kyle are excellent. Some of the other teachers don’t really care about your education and are just there for the paycheck but it’s like that with every school. Most of the classes provide good information to get started in the electrical trade while some classes are completely useless and more so designed to get your feet wet in other electronic/industrial related concepts. Overall it’s a decent program that will increase your chances of finding an apprenticeship over someone with no experience but be warned that finding an apprenticeship is extremely difficult if you don’t have connections, of the 90 or so that graduated maybe 5 found apprenticeships within a year or two if graduating.
In School of Information Technologies, College require from students to buy Ethernet cables and Cisco cable in their shop for labs. They made business from students. It is not my problem that laboratories don’t have cables. It is College’s job to provide everything. Thank God I don’t have to buy books, I can get it from internet.
College require to pay for next semester in the middle of first semester, but if you fail exams they won’t give money back.
They make you take some bullshit English fluency test – WRIT – even if you’re a native English speaker.
Worst school in Canada if not on the entire planet.
Co-op is a joke. The only help your $800 gets you is to sit in a room and watch some badly drawn powerpoint slide.
The teachers are god-awful (won’t deign to call them professors because I am better educated with a masters degree than they are). The quality of business education is laughable
Complaining to the ombuds is a complete waste of time – that guy, Greg Hessian, sucks up student fees in a swank office, shows up LATE for his own appointments and has no idea why he’s there.
All the public funding that the government pays to that school goes to support a bloated, overpaid, underworked and unprofessional staff and administration. It certainly doesn’t go to the classrooms – most of which don’t even have up-to-date electrical outlets so student can set up laptops or even proper lighting. This is not an exaggeration.
Whatever you do, don’t waste your money or your time here – go somewhere else.
Hey guys i needed help from the students of Fanshawe actually I have received addmission in this college for Professional Financial Service Course which of is of 1 years course i needed to know do we have proper job opportunities after getting this course complete and is Fanshawe college teaching staff and other thing are proper
I dont know about the college’s quality about any private programs because i am prepare to study here and didnt come there yet. But the service helping international student is great as the first come to new place, they help and care me all with many friendly staffs. Thanks
WARNING: This place rents out its rooms to members of the raping pedophile founded global genocidal death cult aka Islam from Spring to Fall. If you think anyone here has any decency to keep these vile pigs out of the country and out of the place they rent like a hotel to other normal people to come to you are wasting your time thinking you will enjoy your stay here even for one night to wake up and see these evil Islamic pigs walking all over the buildings. Watch your back if you are stupid enough to stay here among these genocidal death cult followers.
it was complete waste of 3 1/2 years.
i did the fine-arts program but i missed a few extra credits so i stayed for 1/2 year
was not allowed to submit my work into the year end show, was the first time
they ever did this.
anyways i shame Fanshawe for its lack of skills in
actual artistic trades such as printmaking. or painting. most of the students
were just painting other artists style and calling it there own.
why did i waste my life with school…it has taken me along time to forget
everything and pretty much everyone i have know from this school
including the girl i dated for over 2 years.
since then i retaught my self how to paint, and draw, believe me its hard to get rid of
things you though were useful but they clearly were not.
im a self taught and i encourage toehr to learn on there own its easier
it took along time to get away from the lessosn taugh from the minds of those teachers,
since then i concentrate on the fundamentals of art. focus on actually making good work,
I took Multimedia Product and Design in 2012. This school is honestly pathetic. I had a better time learning things on Youtube.
My Girlfriend put a deposit to this school to hold a seat, was unable to attend due to student loans falling through. During a call about registration she attempted to cancel the semester at school, they told her she would not need to make any further steps to do so. Which apparently was incorrect, and they are now attempting to charge her for a school year she not only didn’t attend but didn’t remotely sign up for in any shape or form. So far the school representatives have had a very tough luck attitude despite the error being from their employees. She was told she could make an appeal, so hopefully something good can come of that.
It’s a good school for international students and a poor school for domestic students.
This was the stupidest decision of my life.
Although the school offers many courses, only a few of them are organized and well thought out. The quality of the professors is extremely low. They seem to only employ people who did so poorly in their own field that they decided to teach because they couldn’t earn paychecks in the real world. The school (including all bathrooms) are filthy.
One word: Awful.
After coming to Canada in 2008, I was a student in a couple language schools in Toronto (ILAC and Omnicom), then I took 2 certificate programs at the University of Toronto, and now I am in Fanshawe College.
First of all, it is the a very good place to study for immigrants and international students because of all the support students get here.
Inexpensive accommodation, free airport pick up, carreer services to find off-campus jobs and internships.
When I asked for career support at UofT, they tried to sell me a course for $650 on how to interract with Canadians at work – and thats all the best university in Canada could offer.
At Fanshawe, from month 1 and during the 1st semester, students are offered free resume services, interview training, job search seminars and lots of networking events througout the program from different departments.
No wonder Fanshawe was rated by ISB #2 in the world this year for international students services.
The city is very friendly, cheaper than Toronto and way easier to find students jobs in retail and services, since there are not many first generation immigrants.
All the bed reviews on this web site are made most likely either by competiting colleges that advertise themselves actively online or by people who made their own mistakes and they don’t want to take the responsibility for them.
Fanshawe College is one of the best schools for those who want to study and live in a good environment and have better job opportunities.
Had a horrible first experience there 5 years ago being fresh out of highschool. A horrible experience that cost $10, 000 all together. Decided to give fanshawe a second chance. Enrolled but unfortunately to the fact that I’m a mom now I was unable to actually go to school again. Never went to a day of classes.. Didn’t even know my student number and they still are making me pay $2300. The administration was extremely unhelpful and did not care to even hear what I had to say. As long as they get their money they do not care about their students.
Horrible school , does everything to get all the money out of you as possible and you come out with nothing.
I enrolled in Fanshawe’s “Multimedia Product and Design” program or as it’s now called “Interactive Media Design and Production”.
This was simply the poorest and worst educational experience of my entire life. I dropped out of my two year program years ago and continue to be absolutely bitter about my experience. The high school I attended in Mississauga actually managed to teach me more about my industry at a higher level than this cash grab of a college. My high school teacher was also more qualified than these so called “experts”.
This college is literally a breeding ground for unintellegent waste and kills any attempts at cultivating intelligent thought. You can really see the artistic cultivation when you walk around the school. They showcase the “best” Photography they have to offer, in which every single photo has the contrast raised far too high to ever be printed in a newspaper or magazine (literally every single damn photo!). The art paintings look like they were made by children and anything that is remotely good is from a naturally gifted student that attended in the 80s. The toxic environment is further reflected by the posters for Porn Star Moustache Contests and the fact that it prides itself on spending $400 a month on Sex Toy Bingo. It doesn’t a take a a degree is Psychology to see the problems in those “educational” choices! If you live on Res and are looking to bond with other intellects (hint: there are none!), you have movie night to look forward to. 300 fully grown adults sit around in their onesies pajama pants and watch the latest crap to come out of Hollywood. Such as Ironman 2 and shitty Romantic Comedies.
As for my courses, all my teachers were all unemployed Web Developers. Our teachers actually changed multiple times in the first semester because they quit when they managed to get real jobs. And made no effort to hide this. Saying ___ got a real job and left. The photography class teaches you how to take a picture. What the parts of a camera are and thats about it. The animation class teaches you how to make a ball bounce up and down with tweens in Adobe flash (no give in the ball either, literally a dot going up and down, a 5 min exercise dragged out for days). And the other courses teach the wonders of Photoshop aka how layers work and adjusting the contrast on a photo. But don’t get too excited about these basic skills your 8 year old computer whiz of kid can teach you or you can learn for yourself on youtube for free, because the first month is spent learning how to use the keyboard and mouse. Im dead f***ing serious. A college computer course on Web Design that taught mouse and keyboard basics for the first two weeks. When I asked why, it was because “we have to make sure everyone is on the same page”. I’m pretty sure you need to know how to use a mouse and keyboard just to enrol in college!
When it came to actual coding they skipped the basics and essential html that is basically timeless and tried to do it all in CSS. For those of you who are unfamiliar with coding, CSS is basically for stylistic elements only, such as changing font colors and what not. Hence the name “Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)”. And when I say taught, I mean forced you pay $80 for the WORST TEXTBOOK EVER and let you work through it yourself. As someone who was already making professional websites (i had taught myself in the 10th grade) I couldn’t help but feel bad for my students who were learning to make web pages that looking like myspace pages from the 90s and were paying for it.
On a final project I was accused for plagiarism for using coding that was more advanced than the bullshit they were teaching us. I was given a 0. My parents and myself sat down with the Department head and he overturned the decision saying it was obvious that the site was infact coded by hand and it contained no computer generated lines of code. My professor re-marked my project and bumped it up from a 0 to 60%. How a website that was so good that it convinced a professional teacher into thinking it was stolen could only be worth a 60% still baffles me to this day. To add further insult to injury, I had spent 7 days coding that website. I had coded a friend’s website who was attending the University of Western in one night and he received a 90%. I eventually became so frustrated with the pace of learning, the marking scheme and the fact that the assignments felt like the sort of thing parents give their children while they save the real talks for the grown up table, I had to drop out. There was no teaching, no important information passed on, and no inspiring or creative cultivation. This college is like the remedial retard class of colleges. I hated it and always will. I wish their entire staff dead.
I took one program and it was great with excellent faculty (GIS and Urban Planning), so I signed up for the GIS Certificate course and have never been so unimpressed.
My comments below are in regards to my second experience.
Some of the teachers are horrible and when you try to discuss this with upper management, they dismiss you.
I am paying for more hours than the teachers teach… one class should be 4 hours and the teacher left after less than 1 and he was late.
They have the classes set up in 3 hour blocks but charge for 4 hours and claim lab time, but none is given.
Some of the teachers do not help and force the students to learn 80% of the assignments on their own and lie about what will be on the exam.
If I didn’t need this program so badly I would drop this school.
Not worth it if you can learn somewhere else.
I am writing this in response to Mr Patel’s comment below.
“” Shut the f**k man ..!.”
This school is a joke.
The majority of the courses are completely irrelevant to the program I was taking. I decided to do an online program in my spare time and it was a nightmare trying to navigate their terrible Fanshawe Online system. It is not user friendly at all and constantly has errors and crashes on me, which is just what I needed in an online program.
The teachers were useless. They basically copied word for word from the text books and put that in their lecture notes. Why bother making lecture slides when I can just read the textbook. Plus a number of the instructions and quiz questions had typos in them. Seriously?! Take five seconds to proof read your work. I know everyone makes errors and this isn’t really a huge deal but this was a pretty frequent thing and shows zero professionalism. While these are just little things there are tons of them and they all add up to make this school seem like a joke and that they only care about making money.
Don’t waste your time or money on this school.
Save your money. The used to have the teachers secretaries teach the summer courses and now they have resorted to hiring cocky, no it all students to teach student. Really check out you school before you enrol in a school that only wants your money, then fails to teach you and blames you for not having what it takes. Run and run fast!
WORST SCHOOL
ALL THE GOOD POSTS ARE WRITEN BY AGENTS AND PAID SCHOLL STAFF
THIS SCHOOL SUCKS
THE STAFF ARE VERY UNHELPFULL
AND DO FRAUDS OF TAKING MONEY THEN KICKING YOU OUT AT THE NAME OF PALGARISM
ALL GOOD REVIEWS ARE PAID TO LIE TO STUDENTS REGARDING ITS BAD REPUTATION
THE COLLEGE IS A FRAUD
DONT WASTE YOUR MONEY
YOU WILL REGRET IT
SHOCKED TO READ THE REVIEWS!! I AM STUDYING IN FANSHAWE COLLEGE FOR THE LAST TWO YEARS AND MY EXPERIENCE HERE, HAS BEEN FANTASTIC! THE TEACHERS ARE AMAZING, VERY VERY HELPFUL STAFF, EXCELLENT PEOPLE AT THE INTERNATIONAL CENTRE AND VERY JOB ORIENTED EDUCATION.
TO ALL THE NEW STUDENTS WHO HAVE APPLIED TO FANSHAWE – A GROUP OF STUDENTS WAS THROWN OUT OF THE COLLEGE LAST YEAR FOR PLAGIARISM (CHEATING) AND THOSE STUDENTS ARE CREATING A BAD NAME FOR MY COLLEGE. I USUALLY DONT POST REVIEWS ANYWHERE, JUST LIKE ANY OTHER SATISFIED STUDENT, BUT MY RELATIVE WHO IS COMING TO FANSHAWE THIS INTAKE, TOLD ME THAT THE REVIEWS ARE NOT GOOD, WHICH FORCED ME TO SHARE THE REALITY. IT IS UNDISPUTEDLY, ONE OF THE BEST COMMUNITY COLLEGES IN CANADA. IF YOU HAVE TO CHOSE BETWEEN TWO COLLEGES – CHOOSE FANSHAWE! IF YOU HAVE SECURED ADMISSION IN A UNIVERSITY – THEN GO AHEAD WITH THE UNIVERSITY.
I WOULD REQUEST OTHER FANSHAWE COLLEGE STUDENTS TO POST THEIR HONEST OPINIONS AND SAVE THE GREAT NAME OF OUR COLLEGE. THANK YOU.
THIS IS FOR ALL STUDENTS DREAMING ABOUT FANSHAWE AND ITS FAKE PROMISES
FANSHAWE IS PROBABLY THE WORST SCHOOL IN CANADA
ALL AGENTS WHO GIVE YOU PROMISES ARE PAID BY THE COLLAGE
IN SHORT NO JOBS NO HELP NOTHING
U HAV TO FIND UR OWN HOUSE OWN ACCOMADATION
NOBODY HELPS YOU
IN THE COLLAGE
RUDE AND HELPFUL PROFFESORS
IN INTERNATIONAL OFFICE @SAURABH MALHOTRA THE SO CALLED REPRESENTATIVE
JUST IS A PERSON WHO TAKES STUDENTS FROM INDIA LIKE CATTLE
AND DUMPS THEM HERE IN CANADA
ON THEIR OWN
WHILE FAITH IN INTERNATIONAL OFFICE IS ALSO ANOTHER PERSON WHO JUST GIVES A STUPID SMILE AND DOESNT HELP YOU AT ALL
THIS IS A WARNING TO ALL SO CALL INTERNATIONAL OFFICE
THE COLLEGE WILL NOT HELP YOU AT ALL
YOU HAVE TO FIND ACCOMADATION YOURSELF
FIND UR OWN SIM MOBILE LAPTOP
THE COLLEGE WILL NOT HELP YOU
THIS SCHOOL IS JUST RUNNING A BUSINESS
JUST TO TAKE EARN MONEY
TAKE STUDENTS FROM DIFFERENCT COUNTRIES GIVE THEM FALSE PROMISES AND DUMP THEM HERE IN CANADA
DONT EXCEPT HIGH LEVEL OF EDUCATION YOU WILL ONLY FIND DUMB AND MEAN STUDENTS HERE THOSE WHO HAVE MONEY COME HERE WHO DONT EVEN KNOW HOW TO SPEAK ENGLISH
THE COLLEGE CAN DO WATEVER IT LIKE SO DONT EXPECT A GOOD AND HAPPY ENVIRONMENT
THEY CAN BLAME U FOR THE SO CALLED PALAGARISM
AND KICK YOU OUT OF THE SCHOOL
WITHOUT ANY WARNING OR REASON
AND NOBODY WOULD LISTEN TO YOU
AND A VERY GOOD WARNING TO YOU
IF YOU ARE LATE HERE
YOU WILL FACE DOUBLE THE DOOCHEBAGNES OF THE SCHOOL
YOU WILL NOT GET ANY EXTRA CLASSES PROMISED BY YOUR SO CALLED AGENTS
AND YOU WILL GET 0 IN ALL YOUR SUBJECTS
COLLEGE WILL NOT LISTEN TO YOU NO MATTER YOU CRY OR BREAK YOUR BONES
THE AGENTS ARE PAID BY THE COLLEGE
TO GIVE YOU FALSE PROMISES LIKE JOBS AND ALL
THE ONLY JOBS ARE GIVEN TO CANADIANS IN COLLEGE
AND GOOD LOOK IN FINDING ACCOMADATION IN WHICH COLLEGE WILL NOT HELP YOU
AND YOU HAVE TO ROAM ALL AROUND LONDON WALKING AND FINDING ACCOMADATION
IN SHORT I HARDLY RECOMMEND YOU THAT THIS IS JUST A BUSINESS SCHOOL JUST EARNING MONEY OF INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS AND TREATING THEM LIKE S**T
WITH NO HELPFUL STAFF
ITZ BETTER TO STUDY SOMEWHERE ELSE THAN THIS STUPID SCHOOL
Fanshawe college is a great school, provided you choose to make a concerted effort to learn. Those who party and drink 4 nights a week are not going to be successful. Residence is expensive, but other than swiping a card to get in the rules were fine… it keeps people like the ones posting here from being idiots. My program is fantastic, one of the most desirable in Canada. It offers an articulation agreement to one of the hardest to enter programs in all of Canada. The professors all have masters degrees and the techs are either graduates of the program with work experience or have Guelph university LA bachelors.
So going into Fanshawe I knew it was more of a community college that probably wouldn’t be strong in the arts department, but at that point in my life (from January 2011 to December 2012) I didn’t have a lot going on with my school plans, so decided to take a chance in the film program as an aspiring filmmaker. I have been completely finished with Fanshawe for more than a year now and the absolutely bitter, frustrated, and angry feelings I had for it upon completion are still strong within myself.
In order to get into the actual hands on filmmaking program you have to take a year of General Arts & Science and meet all of the required mandatory film classes to even get to touch a camera. For some people who are unsure about what they want as a career this can be a good thing, but for me, someone who was quite sure I wanted to work in the film industry, it was very frustrating and depressing. I had to take one mandatory english course, two sociology (or psychology) courses, and plenty of film studies courses for a year before I could begin making films, which was what I actually wanted to be doing.
I can understand that a film program would think it was important for film students to have a base knowledge of film history and studies before entering actual filmmaking courses, but I think it is absolutely not necessary. Although I am interested in film studies, the fact that it was mandatory was something I detested. I had to take two Film Criticism courses, a Film Noir course, a Canadian Cinema course, and a Documentary Film course. Of all of these mandatory courses I would say the only ones that came close to being at all necessary were the film criticism courses, which over two courses traced the history of the worldwide film movement from beginning to present. All of the others were somewhat interesting, but excessive. My film studies teachers were alright, some showed clear passion and enthusiasm for what they were teaching, while others were clearly the type of teachers who are more performers than teachers who really want to have an honest, current dialogue with students about film. They are there to be listened to, not to indulge in any students opinion that might be different than their own. In any creative environment, that is toxic.
A criticism I have heard about going to film school from others is that the content is stuck in the past and biased, which I agree somewhat with. I think it is important to know the history and study certain directors and movements of the past, but from all of my research on film studies it seems that everyone talks about the same ten heralded directors who all made their last movies in the 1980s. As someone passionate about film and more modern films, I was okay with discussing filmmakers who thrived in the 60s, and 70s but also wanted to discuss my favourite filmmakers who are still making fantastic films today. There was not a lot of room for those discussions, so most of the time being in a film studies class felt like being stuck in a crappy high school class where your interests are not being considered, although you are the one paying for it. I felt like I was one of many students in film studies classes all over the world memorizing the same old textbook that hasn’t been updated in at least ten years.
As for the work we did in the film studies courses, it was all very basic, boring stuff. In all of my courses the weekly routine was to watch a film of the week, then have a ten question quiz and discuss the film as well as others for the rest of the week. We would also write multiple essay papers on films and have a final exam. I felt like I was being so disrespected and part of some embarrassing joke when we would have our weekly quizzes on film. Instead of questions asking about techniques and style, the questions were more along the lines of, “What colour was this characters shirt in this scene?”. Are you kidding me? That was part of what we were being marked on and would be included in our final marks. That is a joke. All of our essays were expected to be very basic, by the book compositions that held following the rules of a proper essay high above any creativity. So those were the film studies courses.
The actual filmmaking courses, of which there were two split into separate semesters, were a completely different set of deeply upsetting and frustrating problems. The first and one of the biggest problems was our teacher. Instead of being a filmmaking teacher, our instructor was a television production teacher, which while similar to film, is not the same thing. I’m not sure if Fanshawe thought they could pass this move off without any hitches or not? There were many hitches. Our program consisted of weekly in class lectures and online videos teaching us the basics of using Final Cut Pro 7 as an editing system and handheld cameras of pretty low quality. Our in class lectures would be an entire class of students on Mac’s facing one teacher who would take us through that days lesson. I found this frustrating, especially as someone who had never used a Mac before taking the class. I was lost and left behind within five minutes of the first class. If you fell behind you stayed behind until the lecture was over and if you had time to ask the teacher to go over it with you, which most people did, you’d be lucky to actually get a chance to have your questions answered. Much of my time in class was spent being confused about the lesson, then waiting sometimes up to twenty, or thirty minutes to be able to speak directly to my teacher about my issue. Since all other students seemed confused as well, or knew what was going on, but were busy working on the days lesson, you had no choice but to wait to talk to the instructor. The filmmaking courses expected students to do a lot of work outside of class figuring out on their own how to use the cameras and Final Cut Pro. Our teacher would always tell us we should be watching the online videos and practicing the lessons multiple times a week at least, which is a nice thought, but in the real world ridiculous. While in the course we were all in at least four other courses, and some students have jobs on top of being in school, so I think the amount of work we were expected to do outside of school to be able to keep up was ridiculous.
Throughout my entire time there it seemed to me that Fanshawe’s idea of a student was a young person who was financially stable enough with most likely support from parents to attend the school full time and still have plenty of time to study outside of school with plenty of their own resources. I think the definition of a student needs to be much broader than this and considered, otherwise so many people get left behind.
So back to the filmmaking course, along with our embarrassing work expected of us in film studies, the projects we had to do were a complete joke. In our first semester we had to do a thirty second milk commercial. In our second semester we had to do a five minute film which included certain phrases and props such as a pencil and a shoe to meet the criteria. I felt like a respected adult in a professional institution with those projects. As well as my issues with the film studies courses, our work was considered 99% of meeting the rules, and maybe 1% of creativity. In a creative field like filmmaking I think the ratio needs to be changed. A lot of times we would be marked down on a project for having shaky shots, or other filmmaking no nos, even if we told our teacher that was a conscious, creative decision. And the actual marking of our projects was laughable. Our projects feedback and grading seemed to be done by a student teacher who clearly didn’t give a s**t, than a professional instructor. Our feedback was all provided in jot marks, not full sentences, and so most of the time I found myself confused by my teachers comments and really not knowing what she meant. I think that is completely unacceptable. The frustration of being in a filmmaking class taught by a television production teacher who seemed to not care about the art of filmmaking, or creating a dialogue with students, was despairingly frustrating.
The students at Fanshawe were…depressing. I know that students opinions on each other is completely subjective, but in my classes and walking through the hallways everyday all I felt was a heavy sense of alienation and disconnect. The entire time I attended Fanshawe, I felt like a mature adult coming to class with a decent, respectful attitude willing to participate with fellow peers in a hopefully great learning process. This was met with whiny, spoiled toddlers who clearly did not have any sense of the term mature, or respectful. Many people were very obnoxious, quick to shout out their crude opinions, get into Star Wars debates with teachers and students, and generally waste everyones time with stupidity. The fact that everyone there was actually an adult who was paying to be there to work towards a career in the real world was never evident. Everyone still acted like they were in high school. For me this had a large, negative effect because it made me constantly uncomfortable and frustrated while in class and was distracting everyday. Every time a student would go completely off topic during a class, instead of a teacher steering them back towards the lesson, they would be indulged. The fact that I and others actually paid for and sat through multiple debates on Star Wars between students and teachers during class time still makes me want to vomit. I can understand that teachers want to give students a break, but I think one of the issues of students remaining immature and spoiled is when there are little to no repercussions for not following criteria. Something I’ve always hated about the education system is how much teachers hold students hands. It is unfair and holds others back. Although I can sympathize with a student who needs an extra day, or two to finish an essay, it is still their fault that they didn’t complete it on time. Many times at the last minute teachers would announce a two week extension on a project, or 1 extra mark for all students who manage to hand in their projects on time, with an extension and no repercussion for those who didn’t. Oh great, 1 extra mark, how kind and worth all the hard work trying to get an assignment in on time. That type of thing is understandable in high school, but college and university, come on.
On top of the stresses of the degrees of professionalism and disappointing courses there, dealing with the technical, paperwork side of Fanshawe was with no doubt a freaking joke. I cannot believe that the amount of mistakes that occurred with me alone happened at an actual college which deals with sizeable amounts of money and not a clown talent agency. Paperwork of mine was actually just lost on their side, and they would make mistakes with my files and payments constantly. A recent example of how incompetent Fanshawes registrar department is that recently my partner, who also attended Fanshawe in the same program I did and hated it as much, was called multiple times on the phone by the office telling him he had to come into the school to pick up a document or it would be destroyed forever. This was more than a year after he had graduated and they would not tell him what the document was, just that he could only come in person to pick it up and that it was important. So finally my boyfriend made the trip into the school and waited for an hour and a half in the registrars office to talk to someone about what this whole issue was about. After waiting for a secretary to look around in the back for fifteen minutes she came back and told my partner that, in fact, there was no document for him to pick up. He had actually picked up this document more than a year ago upon his graduation. So, why then did the office call him and tell him it was important for him to come in person to pick up a document he needed, but had already picked up and signed for 16 months before? She didn’t know. The incompetence is unbelievable. A year and a half after finishing Fanshawe, the school is still haunting my boyfriend and I.
So overall if you are a student interested in filmmaking in a serious way I would not consider Fanshawe at all. It is a school that will do less for you than just buying a camera manual and reading it front to back will. Although I would like to say that despite my crappy courses and time there, I learned a lot about myself and life and made lots of friends, I didn’t. I hated the experience and got little to nothing out of it and still to this day feel bitter and disgust whenever I think about it.
Well where do I start?
My professors are alright, they’re very well experienced in my field (GIS and Urban Planning) and the classes are fun. My problem is with the college itself.
Residence is far too expensive, It was around $7000 for my first year. Then they have the nerve to charge for laundry and $2 every time you accidentally lock yourself out of your room. I wouldn’t go as far as to call it a prison, but I can say that they have strict rules that are very stupid. Also, they give out a form to fill out before you move in asking for roommate preferences. Unfortunately, you never get what you asked for as I got a bunch of guys with a high school mentality partying 24/7, giving me a bad working environment. It took 3 months to process a moving request to go to a more laid back suite.
The college itself is a joke. Bunch of stupid bureaucrats and capitalists. They only care about the money rather than people getting a good education. A mistake was made on my schedule last term; they forgot a course that I need to graduate. I told the “student success” adviser that I needed that course but they kept telling me that there were no mistakes. When it was too late, it was only then they realized the mistake and now they have the nerve to charge me for taking the course over the summer for 3 weeks. I also needed the office of the registrar to send a form for my education plan and I handed it in 2 weeks before the due date. They sent it 5 days after it was supposed to be in and I never got the money I needed. I have had multiple issues with the college regarding OSAP. The food at the college is expensive along with the bookstore. For example: they charged more for a textbook I could have gotten at Chapters for $20 cheaper. The college events are ridiculous. Sex Toy Bingo? Give me a break, they want to lose the reputation of being a party school and then they have stupid events like this.
Overall, if you want an education, don’t pick Fanshawe, it’s just a company disguised as a college. They’re the Electronic Arts of Post-Secondary Education.
DO NOT GO HERE! Do not stay in residence it is literally a prison so many rules and you have to pay for everything! 3$ for laundry, 2$ if you forget your card, they charge you if your room has posters on the wall or the furniture is moved. This school is just a money grab, $7000 for residence and you get a tiny fridge that fit maybe 2 roomates food, only one kitchen all the way on the 6th floor. The #1200 meal plan was gone in the first semester because everything is crazy overpriced. The air quality is horrible I have been sick since getting here. So many problems with this residence I have heard none of these problems from my friends in Ottawa and Toronto. This school is okay I guess but residence is the worst thing ever it is not a party school anymore just an overhyped community college.
If you want to go college just to party and to be exposed to “raunchiness” then by all means go to funshawe. You can tell this school only trives off its reputation as a party school. They provide enough activities for the sheltered, over privileged white kid who was too stupid to attend Western (sex toy bingo, bar inside of fanshawe, etc). But, when it comes down to actual academics and professionalism, this school is seriously lacking.
The professors here are 50/50, half are good at their job and care, but the other half are people who failed in their field and don’t give a s**t about teaching. Many professors here don’t even have a degree higher than a BA.
What really shows funshawe’s true colors are the students. Man, the self entitled mouth breathing white privileged is high with this school. The permenant look of pure mental retardation from the students as you walk down the hall is pathetic and sad. College is a place where you cone to better ones self, not to live off mommy and daddy’s dime and party. But, since this is funshawe, that is exactly who you get attending. Many of the students are going adults who never had to work for anything and who are still in the high school mentality. If you have to work with any of these idiots for a class assignment, it’s like pulling teeth.
Also to people who bash community college, I’ve attended community college in the states and boy let me tell you. Not only do all the professors at least have their masters (its required if you want to teach at college level in the states) but, many of them have their PhD and years of experience. The college I attended had a program that garunteed you a transfer to the local university,
All in all, if you don’t give a s**t about school and aren’t paying for it, then attend funshawe. You’ll get the cliche party school experience you see in TV shows and movies, you might get knocked up and be in a riot too! But, if you want to better yourself, avoid this place like the plague, this isn’t a school, its a business trying to milk their “students”.
THIS IS FOR ALL STUDENTS DREAMING ABOUT FANSHAWE AND ITS FAKE PROMISES
FANSHAWE IS PROBABLY THE WORST SCHOOL IN CANADA
ALL AGENTS WHO GIVE YOU PROMISES ARE PAID BY THE COLLAGE
IN SHORT NO JOBS NO HELP NOTHING
U HAV TO FIND UR OWN HOUSE OWN ACCOMADATION
NOBODY HELPS YOU
IN THE COLLAGE
RUDE AND HELPFUL PROFFESORS
IN INTERNATIONAL OFFICE @SAURABH MALHOTRA THE SO CALLED REPRESENTATIVE
JUST IS A PERSON WHO TAKES STUDENTS FROM INDIA LIKE CATTLE
AND DUMPS THEM HERE IN CANADA
ON THEIR OWN
WHILE FAITH IN INTERNATIONAL OFFICE IS ALSO ANOTHER PERSON WHO JUST GIVES A STUPID SMILE AND DOESNT HELP YOU AT ALL
THIS IS A WARNING TO ALL SO CALL INTERNATIONAL OFFICE
THE COLLEGE WILL NOT HELP YOU AT ALL
YOU HAVE TO FIND ACCOMADATION YOURSELF
FIND UR OWN SIM MOBILE LAPTOP
THE COLLEGE WILL NOT HELP YOU
THIS SCHOOL IS JUST RUNNING A BUSINESS
JUST TO TAKE EARN MONEY
TAKE STUDENTS FROM DIFFERENCT COUNTRIES GIVE THEM FALSE PROMISES AND DUMP THEM HERE IN CANADA
DONT EXCEPT HIGH LEVEL OF EDUCATION YOU WILL ONLY FIND DUMB AND MEAN STUDENTS HERE THOSE WHO HAVE MONEY COME HERE WHO DONT EVEN KNOW HOW TO SPEAK ENGLISH
THE COLLEGE CAN DO WWATEVER IT LIKE SO DONT EXPECT A GOOD AND HAPPY ENVIRONMENT
THEY CAN BLAME U FOR THE SO CALLED PALAGARISM
AND KICK YOU OUT OF THE SCHOOL
WITHOUT ANY WARNING
AND NOBODY WOULD LISTEN TO YOU
AND A VERY GOOD WARNING TO YOU
IF YOU ARE LATE HERE
YOU WILL FACE DOUBLE THE DOOCHEBAGNES OF THE SCHOOL
YOU WILL NOT GET ANY EXTRA CLASSES PROMISED BY YOUR SO CALLED AGENTS
AND YOU WILL GET 0 IN ALL YOUR SUBJECTS
COLLEGE WILL NOT LISTEN TO YOU NO MATTER YOU CRY OR BREAK YOUR BONES
THE AGENTS ARE PAID BY THE COLLEGE
TO GIVE YOU FALSE PROMISES LIKE JOBS AND ALL
THE ONLY JOBS ARE GIVEN TO CANADIANS IN COLLEGE
AND GOOD LOOK IN FINDING ACCOMADATION IN WHICH COLLEGE WILL NOT HELP YOU
AND YOU HAVE TO ROAM ALL AROUND LONDON WALKING AND FINDING ACCOMADATION
IN SHORT I HARDLY RECOMMEND YOU THAT THIS IS JUST A BUSINESS SCHOOL JUST EARNING MONEY OF INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS AND TREATING THEM LIKE S**T
WITH NO HELPFUL STAFF
ITZ BETTER TO STUDY SOMEWHERE ELSE THAN THIS STUPID SCHOOL
I concur with all the above, I’d like to add that the tap water in London is awful so you have to drink bottled water which has a lot of health Cons. I think a lot of the problem here is that it stems from that fact that the water sucks… All the girls i saw at the start of the year used to be fit, now are getting really out of shape, the same goes for myself and friends. When i go home and drink the tap water i feel a lot stronger and overall better. London as a city just sucks so the school is s**t along with it, wish i never came here. When picking a school check the status of the towns drinking water, i assure you its a good indicator of how you’ll feel when your there. Yes I’m aware I sound nutty.
I entered Fanshawe as an art’s student. I was surprised by their rigorous Art department as I was in class about 35 hours a week. This felt fine enough to put in some good work.
However
As I switched programs from the arts (found it became more of a hobby, also starving artist doesn’t pay much these days =P) I then switched into General Arts and Science and WOW was it the worst mistake ever.
I went from 35 hours a week to 15. This isn’t even two full workdays for my last job and this was ALL week. I made the mistake of living in rez (more rez mistakes in a bit) so now my days (still here) consist of sitting in rez, going to class for about 3 hours a day (one hour classes) and trying not to stab my eyes out, out of boredom to pass the time. My only good class is Humanities where I learn about the destruction of capitalism, which is dangerous to teach kids that go here because capitalism seems to be the only thing driving this school.
And that’s NOT an exaggeration, on the average walk to class I pass by some 10 shops run by the school selling things from cheep clothes to haircuts. It no joke feels like I walk through a mall to get to class. Not to mention Fanshawe RENTS ITS HALLWAYS to flea market stalls. People who bring in crates of crap to try to sell to these kids, Old NES games, cheep posters and jewelry, Bob Marley Flags. I WISH I was making this up, this place is a South Indian bazaar with “College” under it.
Now rez. Whats rez like? Well you have to show a card to prove you live there EVERY time you enter the building. They have maids come into your room every Wednesday and will knock on your room door and yell at you if your room is not up to their standards so that THEY can clean it. That’s right…the maids complain about cleaning. But the thing that drives me UP THE FREAKIN WALL is the meal plan.
Ok so when you pay for rez, you also pay a MANDATORY meal fee. 1200 dollars. This is for the entire year. Now if you’re thinking “Well I could survive two semesters on 1200 dollars.” Well you’re absolutely right. You CAN survive…on your own. BUT NOT AT FUNSHAWE! See that 1200 bucks goes right onto your student card so you can have the “convenience” to buy anything around the school. The kicker is this:
Imagine going out to dinner. How much is that gonna cost you? 20? 30 bucks? Alright well now you don’t have the choice of staying home to eat, because your money is no good at grocery stores anymore. Nope you can only spend your money at Denny’s and East Side Mario’s. That money is going to drain quick. I lost 1200 dollars keeping myself fed and it only lasted the first semester. And this is not just me, I’m a frugal guy, everyone here is broke. I HAVE NOT EATEN BREAKFAST SINCE SEPTEMBER AND I AM STILL OUT OF MONEY.
I don’t know how to conclude this. I’m leaving this school WITHOUT any credentials as of this semester and I can safely say I have learned nothing, but can also safely say that’s NOT MY FAULT.
But I think the saddest part is, even though I’m soon to be considered a “College drop out” I’m not afraid of whats ahead…because in the time between classes, I have in all seriousness been able to learn conversational dutch. SO THANKS FUNSHAWE! I’m off to go live life as a translator.
Tot Ziens!
Fanshawe college is an embarrassment to the Canadian education system.
They let anyone who applies in, and the academic standards are appalling. Most of the classes I took during my program were completely useless. The teachers seem like they don’t even want to be there. Waste of money, waste of time.
The Ontario grade 12 curriculum makes this school look like daycare.
There are so many things about this school that anger me. To list them would take forever. Residence is a joke to me, slim to none of the people running it have their s**t together. The food plan sucks, and the options are limited. Today I had no other choice but to eat the Oasis where I waited 30 minutes for my food, which was overcooked and tasted horrible. The people working their always mess up my order, and then get mad at ME for screwing up. All my classes are in the Z building, about a 20 minute walk away from residence, where the only food options there are unhealthy and/or WAY overpriced. I feel like I’m in a prison on residence most of the time with the rules they implement. Fanshawe is okay if you’re only worried about your program, but the experience outside of school work really blows. End rant.
I’ve been going to Fanshawe for 3 years now and I can say it’s a great school. I was in the business program but felt that it wasn’t for me so I switched into the hospitality program and say that its the best decision I have made. The school made it easy for me to switch programs and the staff members are helpful in anything that you need. I would recommend this school if your serious about your studies, the first semester will be easy but that’s only because they want everyone one the same page for going into the other semesters. You wont get as much education as you think in the first year, that’s because they want to weed out any students that are just there to party.
College is what you make it.
If you are some loser that is just going for the ol’college try and end up not going to class and just drinking. Well then of course you won’t have a good time.
I took multimedia and did my grad course with Post Production. It’s a good school if you are going there in mind of what you want to learn. Also having a plan is going to really help you.
I did experience a bit of rude staff and teachers that always said. “email me” and I’d NEVER get a response.
tl;dr
College is what you make it. Stop blaming an educational system for your shitty and lazy habits.
Love this school,professors ans staff. Everyone is so helpful that i cant feel that i am away from my home. School is full of different cultures around the world,along with studies i learned different languages lol. I will miss my school:(
I am a student in the Building Technology Department. I am really happy with the studies and the teaching methods of the professors. The professors are just amazing in my program. The have been teaching these courses for so long and they have been in this profession for so long that even judging them for how they teach would be a disrespect. I have a co-op out west and i would give all the credit to Fanshawe College and its dedicated staff. They helped me in scoring good grades and helped me in every possible way to get a nice co-op job. Also, we have had dozens of companies coming from other provinces to hire co-op students from Fanshawe College. This is only because of the great reputation of Fanshawe College everywhere in Canada. But sadly some people are trying to destroy this reputation by stating useless facts.
Consedring other people’s opinion, i would like to pont out that Fanshawe is not what they have described it to be. Fanshawe has a very good reputation across the globe. Thats why we have stuents from so many different countries who come to study far away from their homes. Some people have described it to be a party school. Name one professor in the college who teaches how to drink or party. Its just the students who spoil the name of the college by doing stupid things in and around the college. No staff member professes partying in the college, so why blame it on Fanshawe?
Some international students say that representatives of Fanshawe in Asia didn’t tell them about the requirements of their program. They scored lower grades than what they were supposed to, and they are blaming it on the representatives! Wow, thats like you dont know how to swim? And you blame the swimming pool. I dealed with the same people when i came to Fanshawe, and they provided me with all the necessary and very accurate information. They are professionals and they know what they are doing.
Somebody even said that Canadian High Comission refused their visa and they telling people not to come to Fanshawe. That is just ridiculous! You dont satisfy the High Comission with the documents that you provide, and they reject your application. How is Fanshawe a bad college in this?
I have had the best professors of all times. Some people say that their professors dont know how to teach and stuff. I you have a problem with a professor Then go talk to the professor about the problem. If the problem is still not solved then go to the program co-ordinator. They try their level best to solve the problems.
fanshawe is a shity school dont go here
My first semester I had an excellent teacher.My second semester I had the most disrespectful person as a teacher.The slower student he would yell at and single out.He has called people honky,mungie cake,and gay.He has also used rascial slurrs like jigga boo.He will start off a conversation by saying the people he hates the most is indians.His behaviour as a professor is inexcusable.I voiced my concerns with the individual in charge and she assured me she was upset and would take care of it.All she did was take some student teacher evaluations but did nothing about it.The scary thing is hes been employed with fanshawe in the past and they do absolutely nothing about it.This whole situation is a disgrace and i am ashamed to go to fanshawe.
F**K YOU F**K U BITCHES. like what are you talking about but this school is great
waste of time. don’t ruin your future
Fanshawe college staff are idiot and senseless, they don’t know how to talk to students and how to teach student’s.
I don’t know how the people studying there for 2-3 years. They do not have any good faculty who can guide you properly. And this India office are asking only money nothing else. I personally request you to do not apply in Fanshawe college.
Partying and underage drinking is what you go to Funshawe for. Not an education. Unless it’s in drinking 101. Save your money!
Hello Friends,
I just want to say to everyone please please please don’t go to Fanshawe college because they don’t have any good courses, they don’t have any system, they are not providing any student facility which they shows on brochures.
Staff are uneducated.
And if you want to go then no issue, you will also write the same as per I do now.
Thanks,
Yes Hiren, you are so true. I am from Gujarat and I had apply through vidyanagar consultant and I don’t know the system of this college. I have had 6.0 band in IELTS and due to my consultant good relation with Mr. Saurabh they gave me in PG Diploma program but then after I got refusal from Canadian High Commission and after that I found Canadian High Commission requirement is 6.5 band over all in IELTS then and then college can issue offer letter for PG program. I don’t understand why those people are playing with the student’s future. If the Canadian govt. requirement is 6.5 for PG program so tell us we will give IELTS another time but please don’t spoil our future. I personally try to do contact to Mr. Saurabh and wants to tell him about this issue but he didn’t come on phone because he found his guilty. But now what nothing I lost my money + I can not go under SPP now and I lost my moral for Hight education. I would like to share with all student’s and all consultant please don’t send your application to Fanshawe college and don’t trust on Fanshawe college India office. They won’t help you in any sense.
No professionalize in management and all staff.
College has no professionalism and total rubbish management. I don’t know how the people studying there and college admission policy is different from other colleges. And the Asia regional office staff are very egoist, I don’t know why college has given Asia region to these people. They do partiality with local agents. They refuse my application because my agent was small consultant in comparison other big consultant. I had 6.5 band and throughout first class in graduation then after these local representative Mr. Rahul has refuse my application.
All are bullshit, I suggest please don’t go to Fanshawe college then and then they will realize our value.
This college is a shame to the education system. Trying hard not to paint all faculty with the same brush, I personally have had three or four teachers throughout my three year program who were really awesome. The others however, paint a bleak lifeless angry retributive picture. The complaint process is useless, the ombudsman clearly works for the college and your complaint will met with warnings about sociopathic teachers with retributive marking schemes once your complaint goes public.
I have personally worked with teachers who do not respond with emails for almost two weeks ( during an excellerated class of 6 weeks in duration), syllabus’ that are SERIOUSLY 5 YEARS OLD !!!, teachers who do not post a syllabus or do not follow it, you read and do the homework on the syllabus, only to discover that it was not necessary and the teacher has decided to change the course outline for that week ~ so much for my 4 hours of input to the reading and homework – in the garbage it goes. Teachers who blame the class when 50% of the class fails a project, ( i seriously have written proof of this), teachers who call out other mandatory classes as ‘useless’ and a waste of time and money’ ~ i actually have on audio tape one teacher saying that a class we had to take in our program was a waste of time and to “save your money” .
If your intending to attend FUNSHAWE – warning ** do your homework and pick a better college. unless you want to drink and party in the bars on campus.
This school is horrible, I have been attending it for only one year now and have never hated once place so much before it is horrible!!! Do not live in residence it’s way over priced, the RA’s are brutal and the rules are ridiculous. If you are looking for a good education fanshawe is an alright school, but nothing special. so if you are looking for a good college experience do NOT go to fanshawe.
This school sucks big time very rude staff, bad administration people specially in International department and they really don’t like you to leave the school because its all about money.
Any international student who wants to switch to any other school they charge $1000 on your tuition fee and the staff will make you wait few hours just to fill one little form.
Big No for this college
School sucks. So glad i only took a one year program, Cause i will NOT be returning. Alot of regret and Disappointed I went here, the support staff is an embarrassment. if you have any questions about anything you might as well post on the schools facebook because you actually get an answer. I wouldn’t even say come here if you want to party. Im in Residence at the moment and I can tell you i am counting down the days til april when this is all over.
On the plus side I do like my teachers, all down to earth people who you can tell, enjoy teaching.
i new at the college ..i don’t know more about this college ..but according to my few experience college is good for education.
As a student who took applied sciences as well, PLEASE SAVE YOURSELF AND RUN. This school should be compared a high school and the professors well as maybe be blue berry muffins. Don’t let their facility fool you into thinking that they actually have qualified teachers, this has been common in ALL departments. As one faculty member had said it: “Fanshawe is not a place for learning, it’s where managers go to get jobs” In my opinion it’s more similar to a circus.
As a student in the Applied Science program, I must say that Fanshawe College is a waste of time. Years and money wasted on a program that does not seem beneficial to me learning wise. However, I have met some people who are very sociable, and have obtained experience working with first year students at the college residences. That\’s all. As far as the international student department goes….useless. to me they only accomodate ESL students. Why are there not sufficient events for english speaking international students? The professors in my program are pretty good with the practical work, but when it comes to the theory, most of them suck at presenting it. Fanshawe is just one big high school with the title of college. I can\’t force anyone not to go there, but if you choose to attend, do so at your own risk.
Like the above poster said, this school is great for partying. Besides that, it is a complete joke and waste of time/money. I am really upset that I went there over a more serious college. I would say 9/10 students don’t graduate on time and most people don’t care. This stems from the fact that it has a reputation as a party school, so people who like to party go there and they will admit anyone into the school.
That said, the school has so much a potential to be a great college. Higher the admission standards, so you can weed out the losers who will drop out anyway. OR get serious and start converting programs in to a BA-type platform and partner up with Western.
Most will argue that this is a community college and they are suppose to admit anyone, which I kind of agree. Its a double edge sword. If they ruin there reputation as a party school, they will see a decline in enrolment, but if they get serious , then they become a more reputable college.
Hate this school….just finished highschool and im taking the gen. business program….don’t learn a thing! the only plus side about it that you get amazing grades, cuz you already know basically everthing!!! Useless school, would NEVER recommend it, unless you wanna waster your money and time and still get a diploma!
The school is great for partying, but the majority of people working there are incompetent and could be replaced with monkeys. The school of IT are a bunch of lazy blooming idiots who make you suffer for their lack of ability to file paperwork probably and on time.