Top Rated 5 University in Eureka, CA - A Smart Choice for the Future

Eulises Ochoa Alex wright is so disrespectful. Called him and he dismissed all my questions and told me this call was not necessary. Made me feel stupid and he was very unhelpful. Sadly it seems he is the only counselor at this college and dont plan on meeting up with this person.

Kenneth Adelsperger Its a nice place, good place to learn new things question is is it a worthy place to get an education or career? Honestly its not like the college of the redwoods I remember when my father attended here and it can be really really hard to make one friend or more. Hopefully this place is worth something or not.

Daniel Jewell Beautiful campus and decent selections of classes.

Tori Kronmann This has been the most frustrating and disappointing experience I’ve ever had with a school. Communication is virtually nonexistent—they don’t respond to emails or phone calls, leaving students completely in the dark. Despite my efforts to get answers, I was met with silence at every turn. After a disastrous first term, I decided to withdraw, but even that process was a nightmare. It required escalating my concerns to the dean just to make any progress. I cannot, in good conscience, recommend this school to anyone. Save yourself the headache and look elsewhere.

boris heller After I’m just kicking me out of the college for no reason except for the professor Dr. Davis was allowed to bully me. I was denying my rights to have any legal advocate to stand up to me. I would never recommend this college. Let along the social work program if you wanna be like me and spend a lot of money and get zero results then go to this college and attend the social work program to top it all off. They decided that it was acceptable for me to pay for the class. they kicked me out of here proof there’s a lot of other colleges. They’re actually friendly professors. They actually work with the students not Pacific college.

Bridgette The IRB process at Pacific Oaks College is an absolute nightmare. It is filled with bureaucratic red tape, delays, and incompetence. The staff are unhelpful and unresponsive, making it nearly impossible to get your research project approved in a timely manner. The process is convoluted and confusing, leading to frustration and wasted time. Save yourself the headache and avoid Pacific Oaks Colleges at all costs. It is a complete joke and a disgrace to academic research.

Josh Michaels A most disorganized program that changes requirements constantly. The rotating band of adjunct instructors cause chaos, changing class requirements mid stream, with little regard to the impact on students. The financial aid office extends offers of scholarships, then fails to fulfill terms. The only positive, the full time professors are caring humans… just utterly disorganized. Save 100,000$ to go to a better school.

Patricia Martucci Best decision I made for myself. I graduated with an MA in Psychology specializing in Marriage and Family Therapy and I have have a thriving career for the past 15 years and have been able to do everything Ive wanted to in the field and more, included teach at a community college, be a clinical director, work in a thriving private practice and supervise other professionals in the field. Im currently writing a book and looking to expand my work even further. I highly recommend. It is what you put into it and there were some of the very best professors that Ive engaged with ever.

sivie suckerman I’m sure each department is unique, but I found the counseling program to be significantly lacking in mentorship opportunities, accountability by leadership and support to students navigating both the masters and PhD programs. The school is all about checking boxes and not about actually learning anything. In fact, I had faculty literally tell me to just check boxes and I refused to accept that a PhD program should be about checking boxes. Maybe I expect too much, but it was my assumption that PhD programs were about advancing a field not asking you to just regurgitate talking points like you’re in a cult. Also, if you try to have a meaning with leadership about concerns and feeling like you aren’t getting what you need from the program, nothing changes and you are labeled a troublemaker. For a program that prides itself on being social justice oriented and “humanistic”, it’s approach is very colonialist, and it feels very arrogant.

Jessie Young I was accepted into this school and I was so happy. I always heard great things about this school. I was told my BA would be covered by financial aid. I repeatedly told Martha from admissions that I was not going to take out any loans. Well I was mislead. I was also told that tuition deposit was going to be returned back to me and again I was mislead. Now that I dont want to go to this school nobody calls me back. I look on the website and it states that the tuition is non refundable. My question is why was Martha lying and why does she not call back? How dare you lie and take peoples hard earned money especially in a pandemic and not return it and lie about everything. This school is just about money. You should be shut down. I hope your donors know what is going on. I want my refund!!! You dont even deserve this one star.

Derek Walker We were establishing a partnership with the College to work with Marshall students identified as needing assistance. Great staff interaction and hope to get it going

Ms. M I wanted to take some time before I posted my remarks about this college. I once believed in this school, its mission, value, core belief in education and educating the future educators of our youth. My grandmother graduated from this school and at one time I was proud to work here. As I continued to pour myself into this organization building partnerships and relationships and enrolling students into programs that at one time had some credibility, seems the executive team and cabinet members decided to make changes that didnt benefit the students. They placed people in positions who had no experience and had lacked management skills. Power trips and egos weighed heavy down every hall. A school where money in their pocket meant more than the education of the student. Where we promoted work life balance to our student, community, family, equality, and diversity. Yet somehow that was never promoted to our staff and was not allowed to be practiced by staff, we were yelled at, degraded, and belittled for having a voice, but yet voices is our magazine and we wanted our students to have a voice. As a form of constructive criticism I can only hope that they work on really utilizing the training sessions they used to make us directors sit, because they would waste a lot of money on those for nothing. I can only hope they can clean house and revamp and stop trying to fix a method of education that is not broken. Stop trying to change things when we really need to teach our children values and community which is what our new and up coming teachers are looking for and if you keep changing your core value someone else will take what you had and roll with it. Because that is what the market is looking for and that is what your graduates are teaching in their classrooms. Instead of asking your alumni for money ask them for help.