National University Reviews

Former Employee – worked at National University as a contractor for more than 7 years

Pros – Flexible schedule. Competitive pay. Online platform for teaching is excellent.

Cons – Getting to the right person with HR or payroll questions can be quite a task.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at National University full-time for more than a year

Pros – - employees given a lot of sick time; vacation
-perks like employee award ceremonies and dinners
 - family bbq and picnics
- rated one of the best colleges to work for in 2010

Cons – - Need to pay their employees more, especially advisors. Competitive pay would be helpful.

Advice to Senior Management – Provide employees with more feedback and guidance on how to move into higher positions.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at National University for more than 3 years

Pros – Tuition discounts, friendly staff, some people are knowledgeable

Cons – Horrible pay, no raises, little room for growth

Advice to Senior Management – Pay your employees what they are worth!

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at National University full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – The people are great. You learn the basics of non-traditional higher education. There are great opportunities to network and meet individuals in your field. Plenty of opportunities to attend conferences and learn best practices for your area of specialty.

Cons – A lot of students to serve with very few colleagues to address issues. Several positions need more support staff.

Advice to Senior Management – Make the case to bring on more staff.

Current Employee – been working at National University full-time for more than a year

Pros – Freedom to create and develop skills. Lots of student contact if that is what you desire. The students are adults and most are appreciative of assistance. Some great faculty if you look for the gems and listen to suggestions.

Cons – Low pay for experience and responsibilities. That said it is a great place to make a name for yourself in your field.

Advice to Senior Management – Invest in your personnel especially those who invest in your students. This is how the University can increase market share and positive word of mouth advertising.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at National University as a contractor for more than 7 years

Pros – NU has always delivered what they promised to myself and those faculty around our department. I've been allowed to still input my own personal style in courses while following their requirements.

Cons – It's still an institution and follow their own directed style of the course-work and how things should be done.

Advice to Senior Management – A good place to work...

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at National University full-time for more than a year

Pros – good benefits. staff scholarship that pays for your masters program (although your taxes go way up).

Cons – low starting salary and very hard to break into the upper echelon of salaries in the company

Advice to Senior Management – Decrease the pay discrepancy between upper management and everybody else that actually does all the work with students.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at National University full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Tuition discount, for those pursuing a Bachelor's/Master's degree, Health benefits. A clean, working atmosphere. Co workers are friendly and helpful.

Cons – Starting pay is very insulting. The school will use all the excuses in the world to not give employees their raise. Upper management does not listen to employees. The school is run like a for-profit school where the focus is on calling people everyday to beg them to enroll. As an admissions advisor, you will spend the majority of your time reminding the same students every week to submit missing transcripts or to pay the collections hold on their account just because a lot of the people who apply to the University are irresponsible and do not take the school seriously as anyone can get in with a 2.0 GPA for undergrad and 2.5 GPA . So you don't have to be a rocket scientist to attend school here. You will also find National University in malls, so if you get hired to work at a center in the mall, you will be required to wear a uniform, work both Saturday and Sundays and work until 9pm. The schedule changes every week so if you want your life to revolve around work and you want to struggle to pay your bills for the rest of your life doing the same job since there is no room for growth , than work for NU. They actually beg employees to stay that are looking for better paying jobs elsewhere because they know nobody else will stoop low enough to except such a low paying job even when they have been unemployed for 2 years!

Advice to Senior Management – Listen to and respect the ideas of employees. Pay what they are worth as most employees have a college degree

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at National University

Pros – Benefits
Educational scholarships available for employees

Cons – Unrealistic expectations in recruiting and servicing students, depending on which campus you work at.

Advice to Senior Management – Let recruiters recruit. Let other advisors service students only. Combining these duties only sabotages retention efforts.

Former Employee – worked at National University

Pros – Free Education

It's a job

Nice coworkers

Some employee's are knowledgeable more so than their managers.

Cons – Management does not have any consideration for employees.

Management is unethical to say the least.

Preferential treatment is given to certain employees.

"Merit" raises are insulting.

Workload/Pay balance is insulting.

Employee morale is extremely low at this company.

Company is not consistent with procedures/ expectations.

Advice to Senior Management – Stop bragging about how much money this "nonprofit" University brings in, and start paying your employees decent or at least comparable salaries.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend