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Online College Reviews, Course Reviews, and Testimonials

Current and former students share their personal experiences and online college reviews of Sessions College. Read their online course reviews below.

Degree Programs

"The exchange of ideas, feedback, and support you get from the other students is key in your growth from week to week. The interaction also brings you out of your home, and into a classroom."
- Jason Maclean, Graphic Design Associate's degree program - see full profile

"I wanted a program that was flexible, affordable, and demonstrates the ability to produce professionals in the field. I needed a school that would let me work full-time and do my studies at night. I found Sessions College to meet these needs so I can reach my goal—being a professional designer who can work anywhere in the United States."
- Justin Ashley, Web Design Associate's degree program - see full profile

"My technical and computer skills, especially with Photoshop, have grown by leaps and bounds. I feel like my work has become more purposeful and thoughtful, and overall more organized and appealing."
- Megan Skipworth, Graphic Design Associate's degree program - see full profile

"I am find that I am forced to produce work more quickly due to the assignment deadlines, so I am developing my skill in producing quality work within a time frame. I am also able to develop my skill as I have more time to devote to learning and practicing."
- Malik Perry, Graphic Design Associate's degree program - see full profile

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Certificate Programs

"The excellent course material and tutoring at Sessions has allowed me to greatly improve my design work and apply a professional tone to all projects I undertake. Working within the course deadlines has also helped me to produce quality work in a short time frame which, of course is a great asset when dealing with clients and projects outside of the college."
- Julia Grant, Web Design Certificate program - see full profile

"The biggest differences seem to be an improved 'eye for the design elements' and my workflow seems to be more efficient and productive. My confidence level has really increased also. Now I know that I have the skills to do this."
- Joe Urso, Digital Arts Certificate program - see full profile

"It's exciting to take art from conception into the digital space, and satisfying seeing the final result of your hard work and creative problem solving. Learning about the game art industry is also fascinating as well as playing and analyzing computer games."
- Cherese Schoombee Uys, Game Art Certificate program - see full profile

"The Sessions program allowed me to fit a school schedule to my life. My work is much more professional as I see details that I didn't know existed before. My communication regarding my work is also more detailed allowing me to communicate visions more clearly than before."
- Andrea Raynor, Multimedia Arts Certificate program - see full profile

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Course Evaluations

"Joss Parsey was quite simply an amazing and helpful instructor. I had a lot of reservations about how effective an online course would be, but my first few interactions with her soon put those fears to rest. Her lessons were full of useful real-world information. She really took the time to look at my submitted work and offer well thought out critiques and suggestions to help me progress as a designer. She had my back the whole time, and was incredibly helpful when I had issues that needed to be resolved.  I simply cannot say enough good things about Joss."
- Russ Perkins, Advanced Packaging Design

"This was a really interesting course, it definitely pushed my boundaries, and I worked on projects I didn't even know I was capable of. Joss Parsey is truly one of the best instructors I've had in the program so far. She's great to work with, insightful, and keeps pushing to see greater work. I especially enjoyed the course because she was so quick in returning her feedback, which kept me on a good tight schedule, to complete the course quickly and efficiently."
- Mireia Arbing, Advanced Packaging Design 

"This was an excellent course for honing my typography skills. Andrew Shalat is a terrific instructor. He was very helpful with feedback and worked with me in revising my coursework so it would be the best possible work. He has a lot of support and enthusiasm, which is essential in building design confidence. Every course with Sessions has been a great experience for me—I started out thinking I knew the basics, but the classes have built upon that even more to where I can really create strong work."
- Jill Sheehan, Advanced Typography

"This course was so much fun! It's put together in such a brilliant way that helps bringing out the artistic side in a student without the student even realizing it's there! :) The multiple designs assignments that we had to do in each lesson were very challenging which made the course even more interesting. Bruce Bicknell is another one of your amazing instructors! Very professional and incredibly knowledgeable. Every critique, information, suggestion, etc. he gave was so valuable. After finishing this course all what I want to do is to get into the advertising field."
- Sezar Amin, Advertising Design

"I rate this course 10/10. The lectures are fantastic, overflowing with all the information I'd need to know and the exercises are so enjoyable—challenging but very enjoyable. Through this course I have been able to create some very nice looking design pieces for my portfolio. It is always such a pleasure to work with the instructor Boris Margolin! He responds in a very timely manner, provides high quality critique and really knows how to help his students reach top design work."
- Julia Grant, Branding and Identity

"I thought I had a pretty good understanding of color until I learned so much MORE during this course! I now have a much broader understanding of how color 'works' and how to effectively use it in design and marketing! Ms. Piper Nilsson was a wonderful instructor! She gave excellent feedback and critiques, the lessons and exercises were challenging but also fun and interesting..I'm so very pleased in every way..thank you!"
- Cynthia Mulvaney, Color Theory   

"I had been looking forward to a proper introduction to working with color, so this has been an awaited course for me. It gave me a broad yet detailed start to what I believe is a field that can be almost endless to study and learn about. Piper Nilsson is an excellent instructor, very professional in her attention to detail as well as her feedback, never restricting her comments to just the work but always providing further material/links for research. One can feel that she has a genuine interest for the student to develop. She encouraged me, as a student, to develop my own style, which I think is wonderful. In the end, there is no right way to doing things, it is about contributing with your own style and ideas towards the field of graphic design."
- Karen Ermlich, Color Theory   

"There is so much to learn with Design and Composition, I know we've just barely scraped the surface, but its a great course and one that has helped my improve my design work ten-fold I would actually like to give the instructor Piper Nilsson a 6 out of 5. Every time I submit an assignment for grading, I know that it’s going to be critiqued and evaluated fairly and with lots of comments and extra knowledge to investigate and continue to learn on your own. I value and work on everything that Piper has suggested and she's made me a better designer because of it, so I'd like to pass along my thanks to her, and I think you should do whatever you can to keep her as an instructor!"
- Robyn  Ferris, Design and Composition   

"I loved this course. I learned so much about how use a camera. The exercises were very good because was they were about real situations. I think this course was complete and very useful. The instructor was excellent. He was always objective and realistic. His comments were always very valuable."
- Ana Reza, Digital Photography I    

"I was impressed with the quality of the feedback from the instructor.  It also continues to (pleasantly) surprise me how effective the distance learning can be in this regard. I was amazed at how quickly the instructor Ken Milburn critiqued my work—every single time.  It was thoughtful, and clearly he was looking closely at my submissions."
- Renata Hrzenjak, Digital Photography I   

"I've taken one other drawing course and other design courses. This one still taught me many new things—which was great, and frankly, unexpected.  Together with the Intro to Drawing, I feel like I got a really good grounding in perspective and value, and how to create them. I was delighted with the instructor Jordon Schranz's responsiveness, as well as with the thoughtfulness of his critique. He clearly examined my work, and responded to my work, as opposed to giving a canned  or generic response to the lesson content. His feedback was very motivational!"
- Sara Mckenzie, Drawing I  

"It was a great course with a lot of useful examples. Dreamweaver is a complex program and the course material was great to learn different features. I especially liked the tableless layout. The instructor provided timely and constructive criticism and I would definitely recommend this class to everyone who wants to learn Dreamweaver and CSS."
- Anouschka Zecha, Dreamweaver I   

"I found this course to be an excellent continuation of the Dreamweaver I course and enjoyed it very much! I wish all of the instructors had the same communications skills as Piper Nilsson has. I found her remarks and recommendations to be very helpful and relayed in such a way that I still felt that my work had been given an honest review. After identifying any area that I could use work in, she would make recommendations that if I were to implement them would improve my mark and at the same time leave me with a much better product."
- James Anderson, Dreamweaver II   

"Piper Nilsson is a top notch instructor!! Every class I've had her for, not only has she explained what is right about your assignment, but where you can improve and with links to examples to make it easier to understand and follow. She also doesn't give away free marks, which is great. You get what you really deserve when she evaluates your assignments. She is always fast with her grading turn around and even faster when you have questions."
- Robyn Ferris, Dreamweaver II   

"I went from knowing nothing about PHP to feeling pretty capable in using this language and in interacting with databases. The instructor Janet Valade did a great job at designing the course to slowly build to an assignment that would have seemed overwhelming at the beginning. She was an expert in the topic and gave extremely detailed advice when I ran into problems. I would take another class from her in a heartbeat.
- Jena Pittmon, Dynamic Web Development with PHP    

"Very good course! Maintains proper insight to how a e-commerce site should be both developed and maintained. Anyone creating an e-commerce style site should follow the guidelines in this course to be successful in their endeavors. I felt this instructor takes very seriously the amount of knowledge that a student takes from this course. Excellent instruction and follow-up."
- James  Anderson, E-Commerce  

"Very challenging, but I learned so much! Geoph Essex is one of the best instructors I've worked with at Sessions. His responses to questions are always prompt, helpful, and delivered with a great sense of humor. If not for him, I don't think I would have done nearly as well in this course. He is truly an asset to Sessions College!"
- Lauren Robinson, Flash ActionScript Game Design    

"This might have been the best course I've taken at Sessions! Chris Georgenes was an awesome teacher! Besides the fact that he's so knowledgeable and well-known in the field, he teaches clearly and concisely. It was an honor to have him as my course instructor!"
- Catherine Linzalone, Flash Animation   

"The course delivered a great introduction into typography, keeping a wonderful balance between historic background, technical aspects and practical applications. All lectures were very well written combined with great examples and enlightening video tutorials. Joss Parsey is a very demanding instructor, which I deeply appreciate. She takes time and applies a lot of effort to give detailed and constructive feedback. The fact that she has high standards makes you grow as a student and improves your own professional level."
- Karen Ermlich, Fundamentals of Typography  

"This class had very fun and challenging assignments and I really feel that I learned a lot. The instructor gave wonderful feedback and provided not only tips on making my work better, but his own insight about each project as well. I think this was easily my favorite class."
- Julie Koziski, Game Lighting and Color  

"I can say that Joss Parsey without a doubt was the best instructor throughout the certificate. She always provided a well rounded, valid critique in a very straight forward manner. With that she improved my learning curve significantly, she added to my way of looking at projects and design, she inspired me. She expected quality and when it was not delivered she would push me further to achieve it. At the same time, she delivered quality back to her students, with detailed critique and feedback and also additional links and information on design generally. I was very pleased to have her as an instructor in two different modules."
- Riina Sorra, Graphic Design I   

"When I started this course I was very fearful of trying to learn HTML and CSS hand-coding. It seemed like it would be very difficult to learn. The way this class presented it was very methodical and easy to follow. It went step by step, and didn't ever try to cram too much information in. I always felt like I really learned what each lesson was trying to teach me. Now I am so comfortable with hand-coding I actually enjoy it. I am more comfortable hand-coding now than I am using dreamweaver. This class really is a good one."
- Jennifer Hewitt, HTML and CSS Essentials

"This was a great class! I felt so overwhelmed by Illustrator when I first launched the program, and by the end of the course, I was very comfortable with it and enjoyed learning the basics! I really appreciated instructor Mike Hamm's input and energy for giving constructive, useful feedback. He provided some really great hints and tips to make our work that much stronger, and made the course really fun for me. I would definitely take a class from him!"
Jill Sheehan, Illustrator Basics    

"I loved this course, and especially want to point out that the additional resources instructor Mike Hamm gave were awesome.  It is so evident how much Mike loves Illustrator and wants to help others appreciate it too. Mike was great.  He gave insightful feedback in a way that didn't seem like he was shooting you down."
- Jonathan Tessier, Illustrator Basics  

"The course content was designed with great insight ... I was able to absorb the information very fast (and retain most of it) due to the clear structure and perfect balance of course work, expert insights and solid core content. Instructor Michael Hamm was extremely helpful and went out of his way to provide supporting, constructive criticism. His knowledge of the subject is vast, yet he doesn't overwhelm students with details. His course is right on target, and I will definitely take the advanced module."
- Greg Hamerton, Illustrator Basics   

"Very good introduction to Indesign. John Feld was an excellent instructor. Oftentimes he went above and beyond when answering my questions.  I really like how he was very constructive in his criticism.  He wasn't afraid to tell you if something worked or didn't.  I would definitely take another course from him, if it was offered. I learned a lot from him!"
- Alexei Locsin, InDesign Basics  

"The materials were very well laid out and structured, and for difficult elements there were exercises provided to practice while reading, and illustrations and images were extremely clear. The instructor Paul Halupka has been an excellent instructor; he had high demands for each one of the exercises submitted and marked accordingly. That pushed the learning curve further, I believe. Also, I did not always agree with his evaluation, but that was important, as it showed a different taste/ design vision than mine—something a designer will always come across his/her job. Paul answered all questions clearly and was quite helpful."
- Karen Ermlich, InDesign Basics

"I really enjoyed taking the course. It was excellent at showing how to navigate through Photoshop, use the different tools, and some other techniques that you wouldn't know unless someone actually showed you how to do them. I liked how the lessons took you step-by-step through an activity, and then the exercise allowed you to do it on your own and use your own creativity."
- Jennifer Hewitt, Photoshop Basics    

"I have been using Photoshop for over two years, self-taught and thought I had a pretty good handle on it, but this course completely changed my outlook. I learned many short cuts and far better ways to get the desired effects than the methods I had been using. The instructor was great. His comments were very helpful without being too critical. He also had a great eye, many things I over looked, he noticed and brought to my attention, I was like "Ohhh I see, how did I miss that". Again, great over all."
- Colin Wiley, Photoshop Basics   

"I thought that this course would just teach me how to use the tools of Photoshop. I was pleasantly surprised that the teachings were, "real world", to prepare us for the work force. The instructor was very through in his teaching and an excellent critiquing style. He really helped to push me beyond what I might normally do."
- Brian Severson, Photoshop Basics  

"Thought I had a good basic knowledge of Photoshop going in to the course. The instructor blew me away with many of the techniques taught and his teaching was well presented. Enjoyed the course very much! Instructor Taz Tally was very good about getting back to me, and his critiques were right on. He was consistent in what he thought would help the design assignment."
- Michael Coons, Photoshop Basics   

"The course was wonderful! I feel confident in my ability to put together a powerful powerpoint presentation now! Christopher Schmitt was a wonderful instructor—very helpful in his critiques, pointing out changes he thought would make my presentations more effective and I learned so much from his advice and guidance!"
- Cynthia Mulvaney, PowerPoint Design

"Catherine George has been by far the most responsive and helpful instructor I have had at Sessions. My questions were answered in a timely manner and clear explanations/suggestions were given. Work was graded quickly and the feedback was both helpful and constructive."
- Catherine Wyer, Web Design I

"I was amazed at how much I learned about HTML and CSS. I'm finding myself able to fix issues with my websites that up until three months ago, I don't believe I would have even felt inclined to be able to do. Catherine was a joy to work with. She was prompt and honest with her feedback, always offering up ways to improve my work. I really appreciate the way she approached instruction."
- Jim Switzer, Web Design I  

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