I first started in UDC in fall 2019. The professors and classes were great. I am proud of being a UDC alumni.

UDC sells itself on affordability, and while it is indeed the cheapest school in the city this is for a reason. UDC is a LAST RESORT SCHOOL. While this place is indeed accredited and has some qualified professionals, the institution ideology is more focused on collecting federal dollars and grant money than providing a meaningful opportunity to achieve professional success after college. I did not fulfill my goals BECAUSE of UDC, but more so in SPITE of their best efforts to make every step of the process as painful as possible. The administrative arm of this institution seems hellbent on making the lives of any student who dares come ask for help into the equivalent of torture. Communication is universally nonexistent and the ubiquitous "SYSTEM" they use to address your concerns is ALWAYS "down". Financial Aid will ALWAYS be late. Student Accounts will charge out-of-state tuition to an in-state student, while their account literally says in-state designation, for 4 years with no recourse even from the President of the University himself. They won't even APOLOGIZE for charging someone tens of thousands of dollars extra. Student Accounts will hold onto private loan money 3+ months after it has been disbursed to the school, while giving no indication that they ever received the money and continuing to threaten and harass for payment. They will put multiple separate administrative holds on a paid-cleared account to prevent registration even when in totally good standing, and since that system is down they cannot remove the holds or even tell you why it is still there. Nobody even knows who removes them apparently. Using the online support ticket is useless because it is seldom that somebody contacts you about the request you submitted. Advisors will force you to take unnecessary classes that are not on your program schedule, sometimes multiple times. At the same time, and despite advising being mandatory before every. single. semester, you cannot rely on the advisors to give meaningful advice that will assure you have the credits you need to graduate on time. Research professors are largely not engaging their students in the experience, which is weird considering how small the STEM cohort is in relation to the amount of faculty. Most don't come to campus the required 4 days a week and none of them are consistently on time. The school of engineering only announces guest speakers the same (or next) day they are speaking; same goes with scholarships, internships, and career opportunities. Despite most of these kind of things taking a few days to complete the application or plan for they usually give you less than 24 hours. My professor and department chair, Dr Paul Cotae, had no qualms disparaging my desired career path; even going so far as to call me greedy and lazy; and if this is not indicative of the faculty culture it is also worth mention that professors do not return grades for assignments and some not even for tests. But that is ok, because you could do absolutely nothing but show up in most of these courses and still get a B! Some professors like Dr Hongmei Dang bump all grades a letter by default, counting an 80% as an A and 70% as a B! There are no meaningful professional development opportunities for the engineering school despite it being one of the largest and best-funded on campus. There is zero alumni involvement, no employment drives for seniors, and the only real shot the school provides Engineers at helping you seek the career you desire is at a single STEM conference (BEYA) that one could attend on their own and free of charge. Very few employers visit campus to hire or pipeline talent despite being surrounded by some of the biggest firms in the world. This is a LAST RESORT SCHOOL!

For the most part you can NEVER get in touch with anyone, no one ever answers phones or emails, I’m still waiting for finance questions from last semester. Intentional hurdles thrown at people who just want to learn

I have been taking one year worth of prerequisites classes for two years because I am a first time college student teaching and guiding myself! If you can afford to go elsewhere please it is in your best interest to do so. UDC does not care about you especially John Trapps the advisor for the nursing program! I have submitted emails and phone calls up the ladder. Ultimately there is a disregard for accountability here. Save yourself the time, money and heartache! For those of us with limited options continue to give it your best, the only outcome is success! Prayers for your succession if you are reading this!

There are some good professors and lots of nice people, but the people in charge of administration are the worse, the worse in the sense that you never from them when you need them. They don't answer emails or calls, you have to Google what they look like and try to catch them around their office just to get your answer. Not professional at all.