Alvin Community College - Alvin, Texas

Violet Ray

Financial aid dept is a mess. At first they said I was approved and then the day of payment deadline they said I need to send required documents that I have emailed them several times for weeks. And now suddenly I have some kind of hold on my account. I have screenshots of them approving my financial aid and balance was at 0.00 now I'm stuck with almost 1300 statement. A bunch of liars in the financial admin dept. A. Duran you should be ashamed of yourself.

Gianina Rockwell

1 star because I experienced racism, prejudice and discrimination while taking some online classes here. Only 1 prof was supportiveof her students to succeed and she was Dr Creel. The rest I had (although passed) was just setting the student up for failure probably to repeat classes and pay more money ? Go to another community college that cares

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Financial aid dept & admissions have no idea what they are talking about. I completed one semester there and that’s all I could afford because everything was out of pocket. My financial aid was never applied, loans were not approved, and I was told by admissions I could choose whatever classes I needed. I was never contacted by an advisor on how to register for classes or if I had any questions. The 2 professors I had were amazing very helpful.

Leanne0531

I love this college
It has the most wonderful and amazing employees and I’ve never had a problem with the employees here, Since I started in 2020.
Anytime I need help with something they never pass the bucket, they always help me and know what to say. If they don’t know it then they give me a recommendation on what to do. I transferred here from HCC due to so many locations, I couldn’t keep traveling everywhere to all these locations so I transferred here. I was doing very good at HCC but I was going to drop out of college because the drive to the colleges was extremely outrageous and I have panic attacks going down town due to a car crash I suffered in 2018.
I love this college because where I live is only 15 minutes from my house and it’s an absolute extremely easy drive there. I’m going here for child development and my professors are always the nicest people and very supportive. The Office of Disability, such very good and kind people to their students with disabilities. I had so many issues with the disability office at HCC but here I’ve never had a problem with them. They always know what to say and how to help you better with your disability. I have ADHD and if I am ever in a classroom then the seat is reserved for me because I have to sit in the front of the class, I won’t be able to pay attention to anything the professor says if I am in the back. I am very lucky that I am at this college because it beats HCC and all its issues.
I give this place more than 5 stars for its amazing job by the employees and professors.
If anyone is looking for a college then come here because it’s only 1 campus and not so many locations like HCC.
Come and get your studies here because you will be extremely happy and impressed.

Shauna Herrera

This heartfelt review is difficult for me because I actually attended Alvin junior high and Alvin high school off and on throughout my 12 years. I love this town. I was happy to attend this college for that precise reason. However, there were many many obstacles I went through to get my degree here. Frequently, I had to wait my opportunity cost between a poorly taught class, and a class dedicated towards my profession. This should not be happening. Two things caused this. Professors who do not calculate the time required to perform homework and assignments out of class Is one. The second cause were professors who should not be teaching at all. They are either rude, careless Or have some type of issue within their person. Every semester I had a professor like this even after referencing rate my professor. Eventually because of this college hiring so many professors with personal issues it eventually cost me my accumulative science and math GPA to fall under. Consequently, I would not qualify to enter into university science or math department. Every semester on student loans, I worked 10 hours a day for seven days a week for two years. There should have been no reason why my grades were affected. However, how a professor teaches is one of those things that an individual has absolutely no control over. Because of the poor department management and analysis of teaching from professors by administrative, I will no longer be able to pursue the group degree I intended on pursuing. As a compromise, I had to apply for graduation for a general studies associates to leave this college peacefully, and it not destroy my loan approval or potential to graduate in four years. Best degree plans for this college are governments, English, etc. Stay at another community college for science and math because these departments are seriously on organized and not monitored.

Soltice Soltice

I am not able to give a review on the entire school quality of education. As every program is under different individual. Buildings and programs don't work. People do. I can specifically mentioned one of their programs: The strive program. This program gives the opportunity for education and a college experience to individuals with intellectual disabilities. The coordinator and instructor is Ms. Mary is wonderful she embraces everyone uniques and levels of learning to STRIVE.
Downside..there is no financial aide for this community.
Don't involve the work force commission.. You AS A college create an in house school financing for students interested in your program. Then. You as an institution will STRIVE.

David Carlisle

Great place to take classes. My son takes classes here in the summer to transfer to his 4 year university. He has enjoyed all of his professors. I like the school because they have a great enrollment process. They've got a waiting area and they call you up by name and clearly post your name on monitors. I only give 4 stars because of their police department. If you pull through a parking space-ticket. They watch every vehicle and the slightest parking lot infraction can bring a quick ticket. They're using it as a money generator. You've got to read their police handout. A lot of rules are in place that aren't posted and a visitor can quickly find themselves ticketed. We've switched to College of the Mainland and we've been happier.

Adam Burkey

Keep Alvin Beautiful greeted at the Alvin City Fall cleanup. Texas Pride and others showed up 2 collect all kinds of trash and recycle. Really impressed with everybody that I got to work with as they had a great attitude and even though most were new to the event they jumped in and made things work well. Really proud of everybody who participated and made this a great event and keeping our city sparkling

Update: the EMS and police cadet departments pulled together to do a huge exercise for the training of their students. Using the building abandoned building across the street they staged a mass shooter that the police cadets had to take out and then they pulled in the EMS students to help pick up and treat all the wounded. Was a terrific activity and professionally done. Very fun to participate in as a victim.

Update: we had the spring Alvin clean up and had the best participation ever. 151 people brought all kinds of trash, metal recycle, electronics, batteries, paper shredding, and green waste to be recycled. Had a super day. Thanks to Hugh and the others at Texas Pride for another terrific job