Rogue Community College – Redwood Campus, Grants Pass | Fees, Rankings, Address, Admission, Vacancies, Reviews & More

Nightmare of a college and a waste of a lot of my money! Don’t bother going here for an education…. you won’t get one!
Teachers don’t teach and staff is clueless. It is a sorry excuse for a college.

We (my daughter and I) met with a counselor. They set her on a ‘track’ and signed her up for 2 classes. I paid $1300 for 2 classes not counting the materials and curriculum.
One class was in person and seemed a tad odd for a requirement for the track she should be on so we met with counselor again and was told it was mandatory. WRONG! Turns out when said and done the counselor had her on the wrong ‘track’ and it was the wrong class.
The worst part is the instructor made them meditate at the beginning of every class- what a joke pushing her own beliefs on the students. My daughter just showed up late 15 minutes every class. This class was not worth $650 plus materials.
Second class was the biggest PROBLEM and the one I am most angry about. It was an ‘online’ class. Funny- the instructor NEVER taught one class! NOT one- not joking. YOU HEARD ME. NOT ONE CLASS. Not even recorded classes. He sent the curriculum to purchase with a syllabus of when assignments were due. That’s it! $650 and it was a self taught class! All he did was grade the work.
****I feel completely scammed****.
When we ran into issues about the material and emailed the teacher (twice), the reply from the instructor was one to three word answers that made no sense.
Shame on him!
Needless to say she failed the course- even after her dad and I spent days sitting with her to try and teach her and get her caught up but the instructor takes points off late work and she couldn’t recover! Again- shame on him. He said he teaches too many classes to be able to instruct this course.
Then why did RCC charge me $650 and $250 for the kindle curriculum? They should have informed us of this classes circumstances and didn’t. $900 for someone to grade her papers. She could have learned this Excel course anywhere online for a lot less.

Total was almost $2,000 for 2 classes! Learned NOTHING!

I am angry beyond words. I want my money back, but they don’t care.
PLEASE- don’t waste your time, money and energy here.
***There is no education here!***

The instructors are great. The office staff and financial aid department is a joke. I have been a student for over 3 years and am almost ready to graduate, and I have been asked to fill out form after form every year, even though my household information has not changed. Even though a person fills out a FASFA, they will make you fill out more forms to “make sure the FASFA is correct”. I filled it out and checked it, of course it’s correct. I just think the financial aid office needs to find a way to keep their jobs. I went in first thing in the morning and still waited over 15 minutes for a financial aid lady to call me back. Why?, because they were to busy talking with each other about non-work related stuff. I could here their whole conversation. So while a person attending college (that secures their employment) waits to be helped, they just sit on their butts and talk. Terrible service. Then their books that are used for certain classes are printed with just the chapters needed for a particular class, printed on regular paper, have a 3 hole punch, and sold wrapped in plastic. The books are terribly expensive (another way for them to make tons of money). You are expected to pay for a 3 ring binder, and on top of it they won’t buy it back at the end of the term. So you are stuck with an expensive stack of papers (that they call a book) and can’t resell anywhere. The classes are expensive. Financial aid is put on a Higher One card (which is also a joke) and fees have to be paid to withdraw the money from the card, unless you go to the atm located at the college. Also, the atm at the college doesn’t have 24 hour access. Their solution is for me to get a bank account to have it transferred, but then I have to pay bank fees because there isn’t money going into the account every month. I have to tell you, do not waste your time attending Rogue Community College. I rent my books now from an outside source and have saved tons. I seriously am contemplating transferring to another college just so I don’t have to deal with them anymore, and that way it drops their graduation rate and retention rate down even lower! Look at this college success rate, it speaks volumes!

As far as some instructors go, they run their classes beautifully, but the school is a waste of time. They capitalize on the idea that they’re the only continued education facility in the valley, which is true for the most part. The alternatives are online courses which may not suit everyone’s needs.

Trying to get financial aid for the first time was appalling, Just skip the TRiO office (where i was first directed to) as they waste your time with useless paperwork, give you no deadlines, and can be the reason you go an entire year without financial aid.

The courses themselves are way too expensive for a community/junior college, again, capitalizing on having a monopoly on higher education. You often pay upwards of 360-400 for a 3 credit core class before books and supplies. The counseling department is useless, they tend to just repeat themselves, even if you ask on futher clarification. Their record keeping is flawed (i spent 3 hours waiting to talk to someone in the financial aid office about a payment and they have no record of it)

They contradict themselves. For example, telling you if you miss any of the first two weeks of a course you WILL be dropped then turn around and charge you for a class you never attended stating that they don’t always drop you. they fees are ridiculous the office is completely unwillng to help you and even if you play by their rules they still get their money by other means (like your tax returns or garnishing your wages)

If you can find away around this establishment, i recommend it. If online school works for you i advise you go there instead, because this was the most frustrating 3 years of my life.