Can any legal be filed against a college for poor academic advising?

[aingeni]

My fiancee went to a University for several years to try and earn her Bachelors in Elementary Ed. However, during her years which exceeded 6 years she was given 4 different academic advisers. Each of which had different * advising*. Each one would tell her what classes she needed and didn't need. At one point for a year she was told that she must take a years worth of non credit classes. The Education department personnel never communicated with each other. She kept getting told to go other adviser instead of having 1. So now she is severally in debt for a degree she still doesn't have. My question is can any type of legal action be placed on the University for poor academic advising. She has friends younger than her and that started the same program years after her and yet they are graduating. Non of her friends had the problem they all got stuck with one and ad visor.

Basically the Education department kept giving her the run around 4 different advisors, no communication between them, she took classes which were not even part of the curriculum. 100+ credits and NO degree.

Anything she can do besides be stuck with a huge student loan that never got her actual degree. She completed 8 years there and result in only keeping her credits. She is now at a Community college thankfully they have accepted almost all the credits they can with only ONE adviser. The student services also freed up like 18 credits from Indiana Universities crap. She will be finally getting at least her Associates in December.

[baigh]

No, she cannot sue them. She is responsible for her own studies and making certain that she's getting what she needs to graduate. Every accredited university prints a yearly course catalogue and catalogue of degree requirements. All she had to do was to go to the library and look it up. She also has a student handbook which states exactly what she needed to do if she had a problem, and if she didn't do it, then too bad for her.

[spengler]

Your fiancee had the choice of either taking the advise of the different advisers or not. There is no legal recourse for taking bad advise. She could have researched the courses she actually needed on her own.