Terrible at vetting the people they hire. They have mental health counselors like Mary Broussard who like to call people derogatory names on social media. Now is that what you would want your children to experience from a person helping with their mental health? It's a shame. read more

I have heard excellent things about faculty and class sizes that makes this university attractive. What I was less than impressed with was their business operations-- bursar / billing (including involving the president's office). To explain...after being diagnosed with brain cancer, SELU, with full medical information (diagnosis, proof of cancer treatment, etc.) continued to demand a $792 bill be paid by my son who had to withdraw from school. SELU even went as far as sending a threatening letter to refer him for legal action to the attorney general if it wasn't paid. With no one willing to waive this payment (after several calls), I paid the bill to get the school to leave him alone while he continued to recover. read more

So here's the the thing with Southeastern, there are great class sizes here. Smaller classes with pretty great teachers. The problem here is really the way they handle enrollment and any other service. I transferred here from the University of North Texas and the process was RIDICULOUS. After applying and sending my transcripts I needed to send my vaccinations. I sent them and my tetanus shot was on a separate fax from the other vaccines. Anyway, immediately after being sent I called the medical record area of SELU to verify and yes they confirmed they received both and were good to go. She said it should take only 24 hours and the hold should be lifted. I'm generous and wait 2 days still there's an issue. I call again and apparently the person working isn't authorized to handle this so I call back the next day. This person said oh yeah it's all here but my tetanus wasn't entered in when received. I literally called to verify and people suck. So I still can enroll and go up to the school. They start me in admissions then to counseling then back to admissions then back to counseling. Clearly confusion. They said there was an error with my acct but ensured me it would be fixed and I should be able to enroll no later than tomorrow. The next day it says I have 0 credit hours and a GPA of 0. Hmm odd since I have my associates degree... so I call and I can finally enroll! Problem is it's a week until class starts after weeks of run around my course history still isn't showing up. So that means I can't take any class that requires prerequisites that I've already taken. At this point I call the Finance and Accounting Department (I'm an accounting major) and try to tell them what's going on to see if they can just approve me for these classes manually. She says yes just send me an email with your name W# (Student ID) and I'll get back to you. So I email with a description of the conversation as well. I wait 48 hours and get no response. I proceed to call two more times where the secretary said she'll leave a note. I never got a response. At least respond and say you can't do anything. So I'm able to take classes that are just entry level business classes that I haven't taken yet which is a bummer because I really needed to bulk up on accounting but it was fine. I ended the semester with a 3.75 GPA (on the President's List) and I'm transferring again because I really don't want to spend another $1 here after the way I was treated. So now I'm transferring in between fall and spring (cutting it close - short amount of time) and their ordering of transcripts process is even hard. They use a 3rd party that requires a hand written signature. So I ordered my transcripts TWO WEEKS AGO and the school still hasn't gotten it. They send it by mail and not electronically. UNT they sent electronically and took one day to get there. School starts in a week and SELU is going to screw me out of even going to another university. I would honestly recommend spending the extra money and going to UNO or LSU! read more

This university has the most incompetent financial aid department in the world. If you like not knowing if you will have funding until the VERY last minute simply because the financial aid department hasn't awarded you your aid then this is the place for you. If you like unnecessary stress due to an unprofessional financial aid department then this is your school! read more

I currently attend Southeastern and I have to say it is all I ever wanted in a college. The school has over 15,000 students and yet it fells as though there's 1,000. The classes are small and the professors are willing to help and they actually know your name ! If you want a small college feel in a big college setting , Southeastern is the place for you! read more

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Brought back many memories! Little sis is now a proud student. Everyone was so friendly during move in mane-ia! Lots of helping hands moving everything in. I hope she has a blast! read more

I can't say anything about undergrad but I am getting my masters in organizational communication here and I love it! It is a bit of a commute from NOLA but the professors are flexible. I even had a prof meet me in Mandeville to take a midterm. read more

Of all colleges I visited and considered in Louisiana (including LSU, Nicholls, ULL, UNO, Tulane, and Loyola) Southeastern is the only one where they remembered my name, were responsive to telephone calls with questions, and they genuinely seemed to want my business. I graduated and am now sending my child to school at Southeastern. Southeastern is the ONLY University in Louisiana with international recognition for their recycling and renewable energy development. read more

Do NOT go to this school for its nursing program. I will admit there are some good teachers here, but there are too many bad teachers to make up for the good. This is one of the schools where the teachers will feed on their young. If someone doesn't like you they have the power to fail you and they got this new thing where you got to take a test or something and if you are doing well in the class, but don't pass that test, you can fail the class. So much for hard work studying. There was this guy that I knew who was a pharmacy tech and was passing his pharmacology class, but they had this crazy test to take and he didn't pass that test and failed the whole class cause of that test. I think that is ridiculous. See people will agree with the test, until they have to take it themselves and you have to make a certain HIGH score to pass it, They do not have study guides that give you clear detailed meanings to subjects or tutors or anything to help you with the test. Heck, I even had to call a tutor who was a nurse practitioner from another state who worked with me throughout my stay in the program and said that I would have done better going to another school because I was a better student than the ones she taught in her state! Also, there was this military veteran also in the program who went to the dean in the nursing program here about problems he was facing and the dean yelled at him about how they don't want dumb students in their program. She said it loud enough for everyone in the office to hear and I was like, Wow. If they don't respect the vets than they don't respect their students. Also, if someone was dumb, how were they able to make it INTO their program? read more