Strayer University reviews

3.1

50% would recommend to a friend

(706 total reviews)
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Karl McDonnell

59% approve of CEO

44% positive business outlook

Strayer University has an employee rating of 3.1 out of 5 stars, based on 706 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Strayer University employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Education industry (3.7 stars).

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706 reviews
2.0
Sep 28, 2019
Recommend
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Pros

Courses are designed and set up for adjunct faculty.

Cons

I taught part time online for about eight years. Each year the academic integrity went down, down, down, while our work load increased (post videos, etc,) and pay stayed stagnant. A lot of student cheating and low quality work with Deans and administration forcing faculty to change failing grades upward to pass students.. Starting to approach a diploma mill.

1.0
Aug 3, 2019
Recommend
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Pros

Helping working adults learn and move forward in their careers is satisfying.

Cons

Online instructors terminated one professor per thousand students. Grading is done via contract teaching assistants paid $15/hour. Numbers and not students matter.

2.0
Aug 16, 2017

Okay to build experience, good if you need to eat

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Great benefits, pretty gay and minority friendly, made a lot of great friends here. Irving Strayer had a great thing going with the adult education idea!

Cons

Management is disturbingly incompetent, politics is astronomically concerning to anyone who wants to advance without kissing grass, they're more interested in hiring externally for managerial positions than promoting highly competent, current employees for arbitrary and belittling reasons. They are losing a LOT of talent because they refuse to listen to current employees about toxic leadership. No exit interviews when people leave to see just WHY they are leaving. They preach that they care, but they really don't, their "idea" portal gets a lot of lip service, but leadership does zero follow up which is likely why people don't care about it or take it seriously; they reward favorite employees, not those with genuinely good ideas. They'll bribe employees into silence with occasional gifts and food. Some employees have even been threatened into silence for attempting to bring legitimate concerns to higher leadership. Talent comes here for experience, then they leave for greener pastures elsewhere because of the horrifying politcking.

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