New River Community College - Information Technology
User since Fall 2010

"I'm impressed. After using BecomeAlum, students ask questions that are purposeful and informed. I spend my time discussing their goals. Best of all, their plans are accurate and they take the classes they plan!"

Carlotta Eaton
Faculty Advisor and Professor
Dept. of Information Technology IT

"I really like the semester and prerequisite checking functions of BecomeAlum. These helped me build a plan that is more accurate."
"I have friends who haven't made a plan and they are just now realizing they will probably have to be here an extra year."

Josh
Human Nutrition, Foods & Exercise

Virginia Tech - Human Development
User since Fall 2007

While a few human development students find us as freshmen, the vast majority of our undergraduates discover our major through one of our entry level courses or word-of-mouth, so many students come to us as sophomores or even juniors. Because our students have so many different career interests in the human services they are often double majoring or working on a minor. This makes for some complicated decision making as students grapple with pre-requisites, major requirements, and restrictions on when courses are offered. It was for all of these reasons that we jumped at the chance to incorporate BecomeAlum course planning into our curriculum. The BecomeAlum plan of study is actually an assignment in one of our early classes, assuring each student takes ownership of their education. In addition, BecomeAlum provides composite reports of all student plans which helps our Department plan how often and how many sections of classes to offer, an especially valuable tool in times of scarce resources.

Mary Ellen Verdu
Director of Undergraduate Studies
Dept. of Human Development HD

"I really like how simple it is to input my data and see my progress towards my different majors."


Jessica
Biology & Nutrtion