Bellevue College

One star only because of their paid parking. This is not downtown Bellevue, not paying a dime here. They need students more than we need them. There are plenty of online universities. Bye.

Terrible, underwhelming institution. I took a philosophy course here, ethics of criminal justice. Turned out to be a hybrid class criminal justice/philosophy. Okay that's fine, except not one philosopher was talked about, not one ethical or philosophical principle was taught. Instead we regularly watched HBO's "The Wire" and John Oliver's crappy late night show. This is the kind of place the "college is a scam" people are talking about. I'm furious I wasted my GI bill on this garbage, they even tried to send me a bill for tuition despite me using veterans benefits, do yourself a favor and earn a degree somewhere else

These are the chairs they still use for their students from 1980’s. They go back when you lay back and for a tall guy like me who’s over 6 foot I try to stand up and tall so my posture is good but it automatically keeps on laying down and the desk is to tiny it can barely fit a laptop but forget hooking up a mouse to it. This is Bellevue, where bill gates lives and Jeff bezos. They can afford better tables and chairs to sit in that are more comfortable. Heck even my high school had bigger tables/chairs! And my high school is Newport high it’s 5 minutes away from this college. Get it together

Really amazing community College. The teachers are great. There is a large variety of classes. The campus is modern, well furnished, and clean. The college has a lot of running start students (highschoolers in college). I've found it totally possible make friends here. The college has an event or two a month with free food which is quite good. Something to keep in mind is that people don't really review schools on Google unless they are mad, almost every I've met at BC is really happy and satisfied here, so don't get discouraged. I think this may be the best and least depressing community campus in the state!

DO NOT GO HERE. I was supposed to be in a 1.5 year program, I've been here for 3 years. I've been trying to get certified in phlebotomy and clinical lab. I was an hour late to registration, and thanks to how terribly they run courses, the final series of classes (program with ~60 students) had 14 seats, all filled, plus the waitlist. And I had to wait 6 whole months to try again. Got into the class, and submitted a vaccine record late, and had to wait another 6 months for for the privilege of paying $4k for doing 160 hours of unpaid work ("At BC, we work really hard to accommodate people with families/ disabilities/ work outside of school!") I was supposed to take my LAST clinical lab course before finishing my certification, but not enough people enrolled, so RIGHT at the end of finishing my cert, they were like, sorry! We'll try to patch your credits into some other certification!! Or, yknow, you could wait 6 months (if we have the class then). Go here if you hate yourself

Overall not a bad place to get your education imo, genuinely good teachers and classes for the price. However the recent discovery of the dead body on campus, and naming it as "not a threat to the community" after it being there rotting for weeks is not acceptable. People go to school in the summer, the body was found on a main road. That's a threat to safety. There has been growing safety concerns on bc campus for a few years, Of course there's only so much staff can do to respond to and prevent tragic incidents, however this is definitely an example of an inappropriate way to handle such an incident.

The school environment is great, and the teachers are all very dedicated to teaching. You can learn a lot of things.