Georgetown University School of Continuing Studies - Washington, District of Columbia

Toby Friesen

After participating in a continuing ed course at Georgetown I have the impression that the university is wildly over rated and has developed a reputation simply because its location and unique course offerings. Most institutions would be embarrassed to offer the service level they offer. It took days to sign up because their technology is so inaccessible. Making a complete payment was challenging and calls/emails were never responded to. Getting the final grades has taken weeks (which is important for reimbursement purposes). Beyond having a nice building in downtown DC, there’s nothing I would recommend about participating in Georgetown CCE courses.

Eric Podzorski

Don't ever study here. My wife applied to take some English courses here. They lost her proficiency test and then after more than a week told her it was past the deadline to register classes so they were keeping her $50 application fee. They don't answer the phone at the school after calling more than 5 times. We even went to the school and we were told by the security team that we couldn't enter the building without an appointment. It takes 4 days to get a response from the team by email. This is not a way to run a business. They should be ashamed.

My wife is already disappointed she can't attend the classes but at least have the courtesy to make a mistake the university made right. We WILL NEVER GO HERE AGAIN!

Hemant Gaule

Great institution, excellent faculty and resources available to students. A lot of impressive events and conferences are hosted at the institute.

Larry Poe

The classes and the professors are superlative. However, I concur with many comments here....THE SUPPORT STAFF SUCKS!!! You expect a lot more from the admissions office, registrar and folks that answer the phones (oh, by the way, if you call the SCS you usually receive the voice mail) when you pay 60K for a Master's degree. Georgetown is truly "resting on its laurels" and academic reputation in the customer service department. Every time I needed assistance from someone, it was as if I was asking for a favor and not paying for a service (lots of attitude and unhelpful comments). CUSTOMER SERVICE IS TRULY NOT A PRIORITY AT THIS INSTITUTION....

Rose T.J. Perna

Georgetown SCS staff are unorganized, unresponsive and unprofessional. My son had a horrible experience with the administration. They do not return phone calls or emails. It may be an "elite school" but the SCS program has less than stellar staff and administration. I hope that they clean up quick, his actual program was very well and the insturctors were very qualified. But if you need a document or any type of administration assistance- you'd be better off going to another school.

Monica Puerto

I enrolled into the Data Science Certificate Program at Georgetown. It is a waste of money and your time unless you have a robust background in Python. Most students did not because this certificate program appears to help you turn into one. I have background in SQL and data analytics and was hoping to gather some skills to make me a data scientist. Although I understand that a certificate program can’t turn you into one (although the marketing and messaging of this makes it appear so with the “robust” curriculum).

This was purely taught on slides and wish it was more hands on. It is very expensive and you don’t start learning till the 3rd class. The first class was an introduction on what is data science (around $900) for some powerpoint you could have read at home.

Second class was to get into groups to create a data product on a process that you barely know about.

I recommend General Assembly they are more hands on. Although they don’t have the prestigious name (which I think Georgetown takes advantage of to teach this way), you will learn more and actually do projects AFTER you learn the material.

I thankfully dropped out and sadly was only refunded the classes I did not take although intro to data science and getting into groups does not feel like real classes..

Amy F

Like many others have said, the support staff, to include the Deans Office, is absolutely awful. Unhelpful, discourteous, unprofessional. I expected so much more from this institution, but the SCS is a disappointment and can only be described as a mediocre school at best.

Renaldo Mckenzie

Premier academic institution of the highest caliber. The campus intertwines with D.C life so intimately and captures the essence of academic tranquility and productivity