Governors State University

This is a great school that caters to working adults. Classes are available online and on campus. This is the only state university that will transfer an AAS degree. For many people, going from an AAS degree to a bachelor degree means starting from scratch, but GSU has a Business and Applied Science program. This is a fantastic program that every university should offer. I’m so grateful that I can continue my education here at GSU.

This school is pretty alright. It’s supposedly the cheapest university in the state. Not too many people know about it & it’s in the middle of a corn field about 30 minutes from my house in the south suburbs. All the classes I know of don’t start until 12:30 & caters to working adults. There are also weekend courses. It’s a transfer school meaning you have to start off as a junior. Most of my gen eds transfered over so it will take me 1 year to get another bachelors followed by a masters degree. I like that they have the school of health professions… occupational therapy, physical therapy, speech pathology (my major) etc. They also have a cadaver lab that I’ve worked in.

It’s been a few years, and it’s a long story why I had to take classes here for a year in the middle of my regularly scheduled 4-​year program elsewhere, but I was very pleasantly surprised by how nice the experience turned out to be.
The instructors were wonderful, and the folks in the various offices were all very good to me as well. The campus was even pretty, and it’s more affordable than a lot of other options. There was a time when I thought paying more for your education meant something better, but having taken classes in both kinds of places, Governors State was just as «educational» and in some ways even better if the focus is on a degree.
The thing that’s unique is that this school is designed for students who have already completed an associates degree or similar amount of classwork, and it’s very much geared toward adults wishing to complete a more advanced degree. Even back when I was there and the whole idea of «distant learning» was newer, I was able to take a few classes remotely (just popping in for exams). Now classes are available online as well, so it’s got to be even simpler.
If I found myself back in the area wishing to learn some more, this would be the first place I’d consider again.