My family stopped by McKenna Theater for the Social Work graduation on Sunday. The Theater was very…read moreclean and everything was fairly organized. The sound system was clear and crisp, even with some soft voices. The only "setback" would be the low seats and glitches of the visuals (video) but the video was fixed fairly quickly.

My first time on the SFSU campus and howww lovely! Sheesh! Beautifully manicured, shady trees, easy…read moreto navigate (I was on campus to attend a basketball game), friendly students and staff. The campus is big and I was on my way to becoming lost until a couple of sympathetic students saw the wandering look on my face. If you plan to attend events I recommend baking in additional time to secure parking. I'm always the late one but this time I was early, and all my friends were late trying to find parking. Can't wait to visit again, beautiful campus!

An intimate D1 facility that makes for awesome championship high school hoops, allowing fans to…read morereally feel the action of game. Staff was nice, bathrooms were clean, seating was comfortable. Food and snacks was a little lacking. Parking can sometimes be pretty tough on game nights.

Attended a school ceremony at St. Ignatius. A beautiful church I can see from my home on Lone…read moreMountain I have been here for baptisms, weddings funerals, graduations and holiday masses over many decades and the place remains a beautiful centerpiece for the campus,

Its not the same school after 2020 and I'm applaud by CCA self serving attitude towards any BS they…read morecommit. First of all theres been at least two major on campus protest towards the previous president and his money laundering. 90% of your 250k total tuition goes toward the board of trustee. Cca has over 50 since 2021 (last I checked) while faculty werent paid and forced to take adjunct position.l, the first protest was for staff. The second by students who got tired of tuition increases while CCA gave us little in return. They didnt mention the school had a few labs 2021-2024. We were promised job fairs and assistance for internships but I found out were on our own. CCA also forces u to do an internship but if you cant find one yoyr forced to PAY THE SCHOOL FOR AN INTERNSHIP in order to pass. Cca does t care if you dont graduate the only consistancy is asking for $$$$$$. Everything else is a series of pathetic excuses, miscommunication, ans deflection. If you wana be academically challenged and learn technical skills which are important in the industry Id avoid this place at all cost. The only redeeming field left is maybe architure (6yr program) or Interactive (over saturated). Being a UX designer today is hard Id recommended a camp instead its the same equivalence. A lot of these course are hard to judge since they dont update the class summary on workday nor is it transparent. The class experience verse summary are two different things. Ive had low effort classes and the teacher is quick to leave. No office hours unless u demand it and they have a ridiculous on time policy. You'll spend wn extra $500-1k in class materials so aim for digital courses avoid the craft ones, unless your in those field. I hope your rich and have mega support cuz the rest of us its a huge finacial burden with little return. The campus is shit.... Like literally 20 million bucks and the new building is mostly for labs. Btw you cant use these labs unless you pay for a class thats attached to the lab. The only labs for everyone to use is the rapid prototype and 3D printing. The staff working there is somewhat helpful but mostly annoying useless students. I've met awful students working eager to give attitude or dont care. Inside hooper the main building its ugly and cold. Its also noisy because some classes dont have roofs. You can hear people screaming laughing and being disrespectful. CCA hires and accepts trash people. The network here is nonexistent as most of these students are talentless and self serving ppl. Ive met gen z who didnt know what is a stock img. Jesus and ppl who cried over drawing with paper and pencil. Obviously the school only looks for passionate and naive ppl who wana pay for their dream. Its a pity because CCA acceptence rate use to be 30% and they recruited some of the best. Either way its hard to accept after paying 20k a semester after scholarship this is the type of bs anyone can deal. *Look up current and past lawsuits towards this school. They are not a diverse thinking or whatever dei bs they wana hide behind. Lawsuits from a disabled student where they were called "Retarded" by trash campus staff. A jewish professor Fiss was fired for defending her beliefs there were posters of antisemitism on campus before the school took it off but still enjoy deflecting like they didnt do anything wrong. Overall, take the negative reviews seriously and consider choosing a private art school. A university would be better since this school is now an exoensive dipolma mill.

When I first arrived at CCA, a counselor told me that the training was so strong, graduates…read morewouldn't need an MA. She also said every student is guaranteed a paid internship. However, during my transfer year, I was informed that the animation department doesn't qualify for internships--we were basically on our own. A friend in industrial design was told her department was too small to provide internships. Job fairs only offered positions in architecture. I was also shocked to find that around 90% of the faculty did mot know any industry-standard software! The dean, who proudly identified as a traditional animator, seemed unaware what is the current state of the field. Since I transferred during COVID, it was incredibly difficult to understand how to navigate the industry post-graduation. The results speak for themselves: not a single student from my class has secured a job in the animation or any related industry, and it's been three years since we graduated. Most alarming of all was reviewing the faculty portfolios in the animation department. I strongly recommend that anyone considering CCA--or thinking about staying--take a few minutes to look into there work. You may come to the same conclusion many of us did: the animation program at this $50,000-a-year school feels like a scam. Chair Christoph Steger: https://christophsteger.com Chair Meghana Bisineer https://meghanabisineer.com

Update 3 years in: this is a 5 star review specifically for my department, which is Philosophy,…read moreCosmology, and Consciousness. The staff is amazing and supportive, they genuinely care. The faculty is brilliant and if this is your field of interest you'll likely find your people. It's very unique. I've also taken classes with East West Psychology and had great experiences. That being said, if you're considering the school - please do your research and talk to students who are in your chosen field. There's been many admin changes at school in the past few years so best if you feel aligned with faculty - and staff - before you get started.

Unfortunately, I didn't read all of these reviews about CIIS before I applied. Otherwise I may have…read morebeen more prepared for the experience that unfolded for me. I applied for the undergraduate program in Psychedelics combined with a masters in East to West Psychology. I submitted all of my transcripts and writing samples, and then had a very fruitful first interview for the Psychedelics program. The woman I interviewed with was highly impressed with my knowledge of the Socratic method of teaching/learning, as well as my background and experience in cultural diversity. She seemed impressed with my writing samples and the personal stories within. She left me with the impression that I was a great fit for the school. After that, many weeks went by without any further updates from CIIS about the two other interviews required for the Masters program. I wrote them an email to ask if they needed anything further to help the process move along. I received a voicemail a couple hours later stating that a faculty member believes that AI wrote my writing sample and that they would not be admitting me to the masters program, but that they would be happy to admit me to the psychedelics undergrad program. To clarify, they accused me of fraud over a voicemail, declined my application, but then sent me an automated email with my name cued in the top (to make it seem like it was bespoke and personal to me), with AI confetti animation, accepting me into the undergrad program. First of all, I wrote my sample essay in 2020 during the COVID lockdown; pre AI chat bots. I did put my required goal statement through an AI editor to check for grammatical error and to help clean it up (as several of my friends do in their doctoral programs). However, I wrote the goal statement from deeply personal experience. I was also not aware of any restriction of using AI as a scholastic tutor or editor; nor does it say anywhere amongst the application requirements that you cannot put your paper through an editor to check for errors. All of that aside, I wasn't even accused of just using an AI editor, I was accused of having my entire writing sample fully written by AI. To be accused of full fraud, denied without even an interview or a conversation, and told so over a voicemail was a serious punch to the gut. I was truly passionate about this program and had begun the process of dedicating myself to this through the time, effort, and financial commitment it would all inevitably take. I put this offering out to them, and was told that the work was not my own, I have no say in their judgement, and no voice of my own, but "congratulations because you got in the psychedelics program". All of this after having a stellar first interview with a faculty member that had read all my sample writing and had discussed how AI would help with source notations and research as we got deeper into the program. It's clear to me that the school is scattered and not communicating well amongst themselves. So odd to have such an experience from a school that prides themselves on ethics, consideration, and deep spiritual thought. The layers of irony and unprofessional nature of the entire response has been baffling. This has also led me to question the caliber of students they are letting into the psychedelics program as they apparently shoe in those that they see as fraudulent writers so easily. As I have now read through the many reviews here, I'm less shocked. Almost beginning to feel like I've dodged a bullet by having this experience and deciding to not waste my time at CIIS at all. Feels like a lot of the world (particularly educationally) is trying to wrap their head around AI and what writing is becoming, generally what influence AI will have on critical thinking and where the line is on what it edits or helps us with. The fine balance on whether it is hurting us or helping us. I get it. However, we must not forget that a human still remains on one side of the screen. To be judged and dismissed as unfairly as I was is unacceptable; particularly from a school that puts so much weight on authenticity and giving every human the voice they deserve. There is so much focus on the fear of humans using AI to do their work, that those who genuinely put the effort in are getting brushed aside. Real creativity and human intelligence is missed amongst the cold defense of a changing world. It's sad really; this lack of trust or knowing, or even the opportunity for a word of defense. Is McCarthyism peeking its way back into our society? Though I will not continue my journey with CIIS, I will persist elsewhere. I commend anyone here seeking to dive further into the human experience and wanting to help others along the way. I hope that any discouragement you encounter on your journey from CIIS or elsewhere does not damper your calling for long. We need more people seeking to do good work now more than ever. And, no, this review was not written by AI.

I wish I can give a negative star. This is a terrible…read moreschool. Go check the history of CCSF on google and go around the campus to experience the old creepy buildings. No AC, no heating.... I cannot believe it is happening on the most expensive land of the planet called earth in the 21st century. It is not just the administration problems. The quality of classes could be a JOKE. Instructors are hired because someone knew them. Including the most competitive departments. They ask you to call them prof, but they don't even know what they are talking about, and they don't even know how to offer extra credits. Oh, I don't even need to talk about the food scene. Since it is not even existed.

When I had to drop out of UC Davis for a little bit and to get my mind right, this was my home for…read morea summer session and fall semester. Highly recommend with my utmost respectful regard!

Golden Gate is not a good school and ate up nearly all my financial aid and I don't like Joseph…read morehe's very sneaky and I wish I would of never went here waste of time now I have loans

I am a 23 year USAF vet, and was planning to use my GI bill to attend GGU. So far I have completed…read moreall enrollment asked of me, and have received very little, if any information in my standing or what to do next. I have been attempting to enroll for over a year and a half now, and keep getting told "you are on the waiting list, please be patient ". Although I was told GGU is veteran friendly, I can't imagine how hard this would be if they weren't! I fear this stalling is because of my age and veteran status. I think it's time to enroll elsewhere now.

I am a graduate from 2012 for the Illustration Department. I, like many other poor lower middle…read moreclass family students with high hopes and dreams, graduated with a dismal outcome. I remember clearly, during the very first day of orientation that there was such a need for illustrators and artists out in the world right now. This may be true, but clearly, despite working my ass off for more than five years, I didn't get a stable income job as an artist. I basically graduated and started working survival jobs, with small freelance gigs sprinkled in-between. And that is the unfortunate reality. Some of my peers got full-time jobs, but you know what? They had a higher success rate because they were all friends with each other, and I asked most people they got job recommendations because of their friends, but if you asked me about their portfolio? Let's just say, its all about networking and not hard work. I went onto campus my first year, and decided to save money by attending online campus. It is a WORLD of big difference. I can't believe I attended their online courses. They don't reduce pricing for online, but that really should have been the case. You don't have access to in-person workshops the way on campus students, and those are FREE because the AAU instructors are the ones doing it for their students. This blew my mind when I went back after 2 years. But all classes at the time of 2011-2012 was $2222 per class, per semester, irregardless of online or offline. Online instructors do a lot less work. Some of them didn't even know how to type. I had one teacher write everything IN ALL CAPS - ALL THE TIME, FOR EVERY SINGLE CRITIQUE. Every year the cost of classes would increase exponentially, but standards remained the same. I remember because money was a big deal. I was only able to get Cal Grant at the time for 4 years only, but I kept wondering what would happen on my fifth or even sixth year. Luckily, it didn't have to be 6 years, but I had to take filler classes in the summer even though they weren't high tier classes. They forced me to take a beginner computer class that was so unnecessary. I already knew so much about computers, and there was no way for me to transfer out of it. The digital art classes at the time were also poor. By the time I graduated, I knew I still had to learn more about painting better; I was getting great grades but really great grades and the level of skill that is needed in current times is not the same. For a school that you have to pay $40,000k a year, and still not getting a job is a shame. It's a sham. And for me to still take art classes to improve now, I mean, for me its a passion to get better and become good so I'll gladly want to pay someone to teach me new skills, but a realization dawned on me, there ARE SO MANY great artists out there right now teaching people digitally online. It's affordable and you don't have to sell your soul to Sallie Mae (AAU's favorite private loan lender), not only that but the works their students produce is amazing. Their career department is fake. During my "senior years" at school, I kept trying to schedule and attend workshops with the career department. I only met with them 1 time. I never got my resume or cover letters looked at, especially when I needed them when I was desperately looking for internship, and emailed them multiple times. Every time there was a scheduled meeting they would cancel. Nobody would answer my calls or email. They emphasized that our industry was more for entrepreneurs during the one workshop I attended, but didn't elaborate. All seniors must take a final course that delves into business basics for 1 semester only. In my opinion, all artists should consider that they won't be working for a corporate company such as Disney or Pixar. They need to really focus on teaching that aspect, and be blunt that many people will probably be freelancers as artists, or essentially become a starving artists. They tell you the rates and formulas but don't teach negotiation or people skills, project proposals, and important ways to get clients not be scared at looking at your rates. But they seem to strongly emphasize that people will move into some industry and apply to jobs through online web portals. Maria Brophy's free email newsletters teaches better shit than that class does, and probably would have gotten way more information if I just offered her a $100 for a simple phone call. My conclusion: forget this school, find a cheaper art school that gives you a basis. Get a degree if you must, but art in this day and age means = 1 part skill, 1 part sociability. Learn how to talk to people and present your art, and don't think that just having skill and talent will save you at the end of the day. Also, don't throw money at these for-profit art schools, give it to art instructors online who care.

Biggest Scam university...Hunter Wimmer -- One of the worst person and worst professor.. check him…read morein the ratemyprofessors site. Instead of encouraging students, they often come across as dismissive, unapproachable, and unwilling to truly listen. Favioritsim , dont linsten , Dont care . Full of Discrimination . Lots of political discussion about the world.. I dont understand why University not taking any serious action on these two professors . so many students left the colleges every years.

My son is currently a student here and he is having an amazing experience! He lives in the new…read moreacademe198. It's a beautiful residence with many perks. It's right across the street from the school. He has learned so much in his first year and there was a lot of support available. He loves the people and the professors. The career center was very helpful in getting him an internship at the, San Francisco public defenders office. Internship is turning out to be fantastic. He's from LA but has had no trouble adapting to the school or San Francisco. In fact, he loves it. We're very happy with the whole experience!

I have mixed feelings about this one. On the one hand, they gave me a JD, I passed the bar with…read morewhat felt like ease, I didn't have to move away from my beloved Bay Area, I made some great friends there and did a lot of quality drinking. More importantly, I had a few great professors that I actually learned from because they had the magical combination of good teaching skills and the ability to inspire their students. However, they raised our tuition every year and took a whole building away from us - including our cafe and library - without making it up to us, it's basically in the Tenderloin and our ranking doesn't help the value of my degree. I think the high school atmosphere of law school is something that happens just about everywhere due to the relatively small size of the school, the drinking and more type-A personalities than you can shake a stick at. People contemplating graduate degrees often ask me if they should go to law school - I always say that it's like swimming through a sea of tar, but once you reach the hospitable shore that is your phatty attorney salary (and serving the public and the profession), it's gonna be SWEET.

Quality education, affordable and comprehensive. I'm a life long learner and really enjoy my…read moreclasses here. Excellent instructors. Enjoy!

Review is an outsider's view of the campus…read more I recently visited USF on an informal walking tour. I was immediately struck by how beautiful the campus was and the surrounding neighborhood very nice (I had no idea!) There are some really gorgeous structures on campus and it's located in the middle of a neighborhood, but doesn't overwhelm it, nor detract from it. When I visited, it was very warm and there were lots of students enjoying the outdoors. I was particularly glad to see an ethnically diverse student population, not something you always find at other universities. In all, USF is an impressive looking school - small, urban and clean. I look forward to returning for a formal tour with my daughter this summer. 5 stars.

The pastries do taste good and worth the money. I would still think you have to devote time to get…read moreyour order in and pay. There is no parking. Unless you want to pay at the parming garage across the street. Bus or walk only. But if you are in the neighborhood, it is good to stop by.

Most unhelpful people I've ever came across, the counselors just email to you in circles when you,…read moresaying the same two things when try to get ahold of them, nothing is ever available, the take over a week to respond to emails both veterans and regular counselors, they are extremely rude. How can people attend school if they are making it so difficult to even get help.