Montgomery College

GREAT community college. Three campuses (Germantown, Rockville, Takoma Park/​Silver Spring). I have been attending MC for almost two years now and it’s been awesome. Class sizes are reasonable, no more than 30 – 35 students and 35 is A LOT for a class at MC. You can get all the resources needed to pass classes, they have great tutoring centers and flexible library hours. Coursework is relatively challenging but up to par with four year schools. Can’t say I’ve ever had a terrible, incompetent, professor however it’s all up to the person. They have an array of culbs and sports to join as well as symposiums and lectures given weekly at various campuses. MC has all the aspects of a four year school with a super affordable tuition cost and excellent transfer opportunities. The only downside is that public transportation (Ride On) is unreliable at times and the cafeteria food sucks.

Worst community college in this county. I needed a counselor’s approval to take a class. Advising room is packed and wait for my turn. I notice a counselor surfing on Facebook and some blog before taking another student. Seriously? As I finally get to my counselor. Counselor takes aloong time looking through my records to approve me. Also counselor is typing a finger at a time. He comes across my bad parts of my grades and ask what the class I’m trying to get into is needed for. I tell him pre-​requisite for vet school. Tells me, «you’re not getting into vet school like this». I know vet school is hard to get in, but it seems that all the counselors in montgomery college love to judge you and tell you you’re not getting in. Thanks for the support. Finally it’s been taken care of, but the thing is he tells me «you better not get anymore C’s» in a loud voice. Some people look up and I’m embarrassed. So much for my privacy. While this does not apply to all teachers, but there are teachers who do not use Blackboard so my grades are not posted. I have to keep asking what my grade it. Also, the grades that the school posts are mid-​terms and finals, which is very useless in tracking your grades as anything can go up or down in between. Also they apparently cancel classes if there’s not enough people taking it, which happened to me, they notify you only 5 days before classes start. Some say that’s enough time, but what took it so long to verify there wasn’t enough students? Payment dead line was Jan 1^st. This class had 35 limit seats and two lab classes which only seats 16. Lecture has 17 students registered and my lab class gets cancelled. Now the 17 students scramble to get the 16 seats. Guess who didn’t get it, because they couldn’t fit one more student? Now I’m asking the professor if I can still get in because if not, I am forced to drop the class. Way to go MC,
TLDR: Counselors are rude and terrible. While some teachers are great, most are bad. Grade posting is terrible. Class registration is a gamble and a effing mess. If taking classes for pre-​reqs, don’t take it here and take it at College Park, UMBC, etc. if possible.

This is a pretty lil campus that has a gorgeous water feature, clean campus and I saw a sign for student child care which must be convenient for parents attending classes.
Took my daughter for her SAT exam and thought the campus was lovely.
Campus is convenient to MoCo.

ghetto campus. Nothing but children attend here. I thought parking was bad at Gtown this is hell. First day of school, the rent a cops in full force saying you cant park here. I had to park across the street near the BOE for MCPS and being 9months preggos didnt help. Ill I need to do was to visit admissions and that was it. I rather go to a 4 year school but since my employer is paying… I have to tolerate this crap. Teachers are here for their benefits and the pay IMO.

It is a good value. It isn’t as adult and online friendly as they claim but otherwise they give everyone an opportunity to get an education. For the most part it’s a good insitution. My nutrition, BIology Dr. Barrie, Spanish (Dr. Beach) professors were amoungst the brightest and most alturisic educators I have ever met. My worst experience was when my English professor told me I was stupid (yes, I am not exagerating). I had written an essay that she deemed was to advance for my feeble intellect (again not exagerating) and that I must have plagerized it. I ended up gettting one of the highest compentency score in the class and at the college. A math professor who normally teaches at Germantown was extremely mean to me. I asked him for help and he replied, «I guess you’re a whiner». (I saved his email as proof!) At the time I was on the dean’s list and received a B in his class. But a thousand other people absolutely love him! Also, do not take the biology of reproduction class online at Rockville. it is the most awful formatt and everyone in the classes hated it. (I dropped the first class and took another one thinking it would be better, I was wrong). The Germantwon campus registration department is a mess. They forgot to send me my transcripts three times in a two year period!

I received my associates degree from Montgomery College. I got my bachelor’s from UMES. I’ve also taken classes at University of Maryland and UMUC. I can honestly say that the best classes, and the best teachers that I’ve had have been here. Awesome! I learned so much here.

Awesome junior college.