Georgian College : Barrie
Georgian College : Barrie is a Public, Non-Sectarian, Career, Institute established in 1967. The campus is located in Barrie, Ontario, Canada and hosts students with an endowment of .
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Institution Type: Public, Non-Sectarian, Career, Institute
Established: 1967
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They will most likely grant you admission to get your coins but you’re on your own thereafter. Quite racist too. Do yourself a favour and look elsewhere.
Parking pass $200 x6
Plus all the schools unnecessary fees for everything!
The staff is rude.
The nurse office are so unprofessional and will tell you to walk across the street to the walk in because they don’t accept students at the school???! What?!??
I regret sooooo much coming to this school….
I would not recommend this school!!! Save yourself for wasting your money!!
I don’t have any experience with other colleges, so I will admit that I’m holding Georgian College to a lower standard than I would a University. But I’m also in a one year online program. For me, the online program is split 60/40 on good vs bad. The teachers themselves, at least in my program, are certainly knowledgeable. They know the field, I don’t. The courses are practical and teach you how to do tasks you need for a career in fundraising, ie a class on grants and proposal writing. Teachers are available and respond quickly to questions, marks came back within a week or two of submitting the assignment. Getting straight 80s-100% on assignments is fairly easy which is exactly what I expected. and honestly counted on, when going to a college level cert program from a 4-year BA (Hons). This isn’t a complaint it’s a compliment. That is exactly what I wanted, just teach me stuff I’ll actually use and make the assignments straightforward enough that my GPA will pad my resume. Really, the program knows its audience. It gives you the skillsets you need and doesn’t over complicate it.
The teachers all have full time jobs in the non-profit sector separate from teaching and it shows in lazily reused course outlines with wrong due dates from the previous semester or even year. Every one of my six courses had at least 3 different due dates in three different areas for at least one assignment. Some courses this issue came up with every assignment. For a program that’s run entirely online, I do expect the teachers to have a little more of an understanding of how to use Blackboard.Therey were issues with assignment dropboxes closing too early, and only about half of the assignments ever showed up on Blackboard’s calendar for due dates, or would show up a week late with the wrong due date. I’m a full time student and work full time. That sort of mistake is really unacceptable, especially coming from the people who would turn around and dock marks off my assignments if they had as many technical errors as these classes.
I totally agree that it is a money grab. My tuition is admittedly less than my university tuition, but I live well over three hours away and maybe two people in my entire program live within an hour of Barrie. At least one is in British Columbia. Emphasis on the fact that this entire program is ONLINE. There is not a single reason for me to ever come to campus. But I still get hit with over $200 in campus based fees, including three separate charges for an activity fee, and athletic activity fee and a universal fitness fee. Don’t know what those are but they certainly sound redundant and alone cost me $25, $35 and $59. For a program that is intentionally set up so students don’t come to campus, I think there really ought to be an opt out option for these things. I never even got/needed a student card, but I paid for one..
The college makes an insane amount of money. Nothing going towards students.
Absolutely the worst experience of my entire life.
The services are incredibly minimal. There is barely any decent food to buy and the cafeteria is like a high school one. There is NOTHING around the campus, it is a suburban hell. Life will be hard if you don’t have a car.
The instructors are largely worthless. There is a reason they are instructing at a shitty suburban college instead of an actual university.
I attended and graduated from a bachelors program at university and then enrolled in a post-grad program at Georgian that had a very good reputation. It was all lies, and a huge joke. I had much higher expectations, I didn’t learn anything.
The only thing Georgian offers is an internship (for some programs) as they have some industry connections and can provide a tax credit to companies. This is the only part that makes having a class full of international students good: They will have a hard time getting an internship (and you will have an easier one) because companies want Canadians who speak English. The internship still isn’t worth the pain or the cost of attending Georgian though.
The teachers at this school are useless. I often wonder what I’m even learning because the teachers are that bad and do not know how to teach or connect with students.
I am also in the Practical Nursing program about to start placement and they put me an hour away. This makes me furious because I don’t have a car so how do you expect me to travel an hour away out into the middle of nowhere? and they do not compensate for anything like a free bus pass or parking pass at placement. I have to literally pay for everything out of my own pocket.
I absolutely can’t wait to graduate and get the hell out of that place.
Goodluck…!! if you choose other college.
admin treats you like idiot.just went to the bank got a loan for 3 percent interest osap charging 5.5 the people at financial aid should got back and take grade 2 math and people skills 101
Don’t be fooled by co op programs of working at hydro one and power stream you will be working at wonderland for 10 bucks an hour checking how much pee in the water slide
Teachers are good for the most part, there was a few at the start that I couldn’t stand. The only thing I have to complain about is their Co-op. I couldn’t find a co-op to save my life.
I would recommend going to Georgian, but do not take a co-op program.
Professors would list required books, and then never use them. In two cases class books were used in such a way as to destroy them (writing in the book instead of photocopying the page), I strongly suspect so they could not be resold after and more would be sold to the next batch of students.
The CO-OP department is utterly useless and provided absolutely no guidance or assistance in placing me whatsoever. Oh, they did charge me an extra $60 for their trouble and hard work though. Thanks for nothing, Stan, have dinner on the town on me.
The administration and registrar’s office is equally useless and belittling. They operate in a manner similar to the Motor Vehicle Office. In three years of crippling financial burden imposed by Georgian College I have yet to receive a response from the registrar’s office on even the simplest questions. Some of the policies of the administration border on extortion: removing a locker’s contents, then charging to have them returned to the owner.
Georgian College is the corporate assembly line diploma mill of colleges, I wish that I’d of had other options. I feel like I’ve wasted the last three years of my life — I just need their rubber stamp on a piece of paper.
Classes were inconsistent and the course offered unnecessary filler classes. There is a lot of room for improvement.
Hotness factor is very low; a lot of fat clicks.
In 2009 when I was in the on Campus dorms, they where full of thieves, pricks and extremely uptight “hall monitors”. There were good parties, but there were always petty fights and stolen alcohol, drugs, laptops and anything of value. Hall monitors would be on your ass over stupid s**t and would be more than happy to write you up.
Their promises of jobs after school is weak; people struggle just to find co-ops.
6/10 I guess
I do admit that the teachers may not be the best but depending on who you get but some of them are very helpful. My first year i stayed on campus and met many fantastic people and experienced college first hand, party after party but i also had time to focus on my schooling.
A lot of the parties and bars/clubs i went to had a high guy to girl ratio about 3 guys for 1 girl…. which i didn’t mind :p
We do need more girls at this school though i find that its mostly guys and i would love to have more girls to hang out with.
My overall experience so far i would rate 7/10 just because some teachers don’t like to help and you usually have to wait around to get any kind of help from admin. other then that if you work hard you should have no problem and if you wanna meet some cute boys then this is your school!
Ridiculous pricing for parking ensures low morale and high stress. Forget your pass card? Too bad; it costs five dollars for you to go home tonight. Need an Arduino kit for class? Buy the knockoff Uno in the bookshop for 80 dollars; your not allowed to bring your own(19$). Exorbant late fees are often abused (“Well we never got your report!”) and there is nothing that can be done about it because they cut off all (even essential) services from your account until you pay. The worst part is whenever you need to go take care of things at the registrars office, you have to deal with long, slow lineups, unfriendly staff and finger pointing all around.
Once you finish your course; you are effectively disassociated from the institution until you start taking another program or part time courses. Those who are lucky enough to land a co-op where they are not abused then discarded may have a chance at getting a job through the college but even though they advertise that they help grads find work, the extent of that is quite literally handing you the URL’s to public job boards.
I had kind of hoped that college was going to be at least a bit of a level about high school in terms of quality. But Georgian is as close to the rushed, student mill experience of highschool as you can get.