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Horrible school and worse faculty. I attended Cisco concurrently with another, larger college a few years ago and had a horrible experience with Cisco. Fast forward a few years and someone else in my family attended and the issues were largely unchanged. Everyone in the financial aid office needs to be fired and replaced with individuals who want to do their job. They cant tell you what you’ll owe for a semester, won’t assist in filing financial aid AT ALL, aren’t capable of providing answers to even basic aid questions.

Next, the instructors for some of the courses are not just unhelpful, they are bad teachers. If people wanted to just show up for a test, they’d sign up for online courses. The instructors don’t cover material that assists in actual learning and they pride themselves on trick questions (which is a big no-no in real education courses). It doesn’t aid in learning and has actually been shown to hinder development through numerous studies. Teach good courses and have good easy to understand exams and Cisco likely wouldn’t be the laughing stock that it is.

I realize the school cannot afford to hire the best and brightest, but that should preclude them from hiring decent instructors. Saying “I’m not going to cover what is on the exams, you have to study too”, isn’t an effective teaching strategy. Yes, students have to study, but to then throw out trick questions that ultimately need to be thrown out after the exam is taken does nothing for paying students. Hopefully Cisco improves in this area, but it hasn’t happened in the past 10 years, so expecting it to happen is a pipe dream. Good luck to future students.

This college’s dual credit courses are not handled well in the high school setting. They do not honor their initial stated syllabus and will negatively impact a student’s GPA. Instructors are allowed to change due dates and not allow students to get assignments turned in. When attempting to reached out we were denied the chance to even speak to anyone. Assignments are not graded timely to allow students to adjust how the complete them to appease what the instructor wants. Poor customer service and an disservice to to young students that want to pursue any college in their future. This is geared toward the program through Coleman ISD. If anyone would like to reach out to me and help with this ongoing issue it would be appreciated. This is not an isolated incident, several students are and have been impacted.

If I could leave zero stars, I absolutely would. This place is HORRIBLE. Getting in touch with anyone in the financial aid department is a nightmare, and when you finally do get someone, they’re incredibly rude and act as if they cannot be bothered to help. It has been an awful experience from the start trying to go to school here and I will never recommend it to anyone. Good luck trying to get anything accomplished here because nobody will help you.