4 Year
SANTA BARBARA, CA
Rating 3.22 out of 5 41 reviews

Antioch University Santa Barbara Reviews

41 reviews

My experience at Antioch is new and exciting. It is writing and discussion focused, which is challenging but intriguing as well. The resources I have received have always been helpful and accessible. I would like to see more help with financial aid, specifically with scholarships

My experience at Antioch was wonderful and enriching. I feel like I was exposed to diverse perspectives, expanded my critical thinking and also learned more about social justice. I feel it prepared me to take on any leadership position and offer innovation.

Antioch University is a fabulous school which really takes care to accommodate it's students' individualized needs. With small classes and a friendly staff, each student is given significant attention in assisting them on their road to success. Additionally the school's commitment to social, environmental and economic justice is not only admirable, but is reflected in the teaching in the curriculum highlighting how we as future practitioners prevent exacerbating these issues as well as brainstorming potential solutions to them.

Review Antioch University Santa Barbara

I was kicked out of the PsyD program for being the domestic violence victim of a veteran. They loved my GI Bill and as a vet's wife I was a hero. But when they found out I was the domestic violence victim of the same veteran, after stealing 3 years of my tuition and getting me in debt they led a witch hunt against me with their staff and a few recruited students who were willing to slander me and make up false accusations. This is not a school. Its a business. And a soulless one at that!

Professors with no experience . Read a book and regurgitate what you read. Disconnected from the real world. Phony social justice.

Antioch professors had no real world experience. Often, they knew less than the students. The text books were dull and classes were a regurgitation of the text books. Projects were unfocused with excessive technical data. The school had a weird, phony social justice vibe. They didn't even realize when they were marginalizing student with strict opinions about learning. This school felt like a small fundamentalist church with a strict belief system.

I could have attended Brandman University for a lot less and got a better education.
A lot of politics going on in the background with staff. Teachers going off on students for a poor review, unprofessional!! Narcissism at its best!
However, each class was an easy A and finished within a year...whew!

Did not attend online. At best, there were projects did in group settings. Not all group members participated in the groups at times.

Most professors made the online experience great in our virtual classes. They were creative in ensuring we were practicing therapy despite not being in person.

The Masters in Clinical Psychology Program is great! I love the courses and my cohort. It is a very small school which means your professors get to you know you well as a student. The only downfall is some of the faculty were not good instructors and it is very expensive.

My experience at Antioch University was very interesting. This was my first term studying at a university. I was enrolled with groups of few students. The teachers always showed professionalism in their class. Each class was very original since each teacher had her own way of teaching her class. In each class they gave us the opportunity to participate and share experiences and opinions. What makes Antioch University especial is that the teachers know us and see the type of student we are since it is a private university.
What I would like it to be different is that we have more support from the counselors so that they can guide us on the way to school and that we know exactly which is the academic plan that we must follow. The classes at the university are very expensive, that's why I want to be very sure that I am taking the classes I need for my degree. I also wish there were Latino people working at the university.

In this first term, all my classes were online for the reason that the university was closed due to the COVID 19 situation. I have had experience in online classes. The teachers used a very easy to use platform. Where we could find the assignments to complete. Also our classes were by zoom and it is a very easy to use application. I sincerely liked taking my classes personally, but I like the online classes and in the same way the teachers and students showed respect and professionalism. The teachers were very punctual in the online classes. We communicated very easily on behalf of the university as well as with the tutors. Online classes also have its advantages, since my son is also taking his classes online and I can be supervising and helping him. So I also enjoyed the interaction in online classes.

I have yet to learn online with Antioch SB, but I have communicated with several staff and faculty and their responses have been prompt and professional.

I am just applying to Antioch Santa Barbara and I have heard a lot of good things about them. All of the people I have talked to are currently working in the field, and that is very important to me when choosing a college.

I was accepted to Antioch and was super excited to transfer to become a liberal arts major. However I was also able to get a rare opportunity to be in an esthetician program so I chose that instead, deferring my enrollment to antioch. After I got licensed as an esthetician, I went back to antioch to discuss classes and my major, however I was shocked when they told me that I wouldn't have enough units to get a liberal arts degree in the amount of time they originally promised me I would, but that I would be eligible for an "applied studies" degree in the amount of a two year period. I was so happy I deffered my enrollment and didn't start paying for a degree that I was promised but couldn't complete in two years. Staff is extremely nice, but do your research before you make a full commitment to paying for those classes that their telling you your getting your degree for! Plus, I have met one or two graduates from there who are complete screw balls, obviously antioch did not help!!!

This school was awful...Like an extremist cult...Anti-male pedagogy... Discrimination against male students was institutionalized.... the teachers had no experience in education...Many of the students knew more about the subjects than the teachers who lacked any practical experience...just political nonsense.

This place is for academic underachievers and the staff is not even remotely close to being professional top caliber instructors, rather they are mostly bottom of their class wanna-bees. It's an alternative school for alternative students, which means students who couldn't cut it in mainstream universities. Avoid avoid avoid!

Review Antioch University Santa Barbara

This horrible low class dump of a school (if it can be called a school) is a diploma mill and nothing more. Horrible instructors and staff. Most of the students are underachievers and only go here because they know they can pass every class, and they know they will not even be graded.

Love it! Great teachers and students.

SB is very pricey. Splitting an apartment might be the best way to go here. I am not aware of any housing program through the school.

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