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I enrolled in a £7,000 accelerated Digital Marketing course via FourthRev, promising an LSE certification within approximately six months. Unfortunately, my experience was deeply disappointing, and I strongly urge potential students to reconsider before investing in this programme. I have enquired about receiving part of my money back considering that they are removing me abruptly from the course that was halfway through only but no one came back to me on this - radio silence.

From the outset, the quality of instructional content was noticeably substandard. Communication with staff was consistently delayed. Emails addressing urgent academic concerns frequently went unanswered for over a week.

When I encountered difficulties with assignments, clarity was scarce. Despite closely reviewing all provided materials on Canvas, I faced confusion about assessment criteria and grading schemes. Efforts to schedule discussions for guidance on assignment structure and expectations were met with delays.

After two resubmissions of coursework—both lacking clear, actionable feedback—I eventually achieved a 51% grade. Noticeably, I had to REMIND the facilitators to grade my resubmission and they admittedly stated that they had seem to either forget or somehow miss this assignment.

Nevertheless, believing I had met the passing criteria, I was abruptly informed via email of my withdrawal from the programme. Astonishingly, the communication offered no clarity, no direct contact details for immediate assistance, and instead informed me of imminent removal of all course access unless additional payments were made.

The only really beneficial part of this course has been my career coach who has been very attentive and helpful in assiting me to choose a career path.

I strongly advise caution: potential students should thoroughly research alternatives before considering FourthRev courses. My experience suggests significant structural issues, poor communication, and questionable educational integrity - and unfortunately, pretty scam-like practice to gain more money after the large sum you have already paid for.

The LSE Data Analytics Career Accelerator, in collaboration with FourthRev, has been an invaluable experience for my career as a financial crime specialist. The program sharpened my analytical skills, provided industry-leading insights, and equipped me with the tools needed to navigate complex financial data with precision. As financial crime continues to evolve, data-driven expertise is more crucial than ever, and this program ensures professionals stay ahead of the curve.

Data is the future, and this course is an essential investment for those looking to future-proof their careers. The curriculum was comprehensive, and the facilitators and coaches were outstanding. Balancing a full-time job while completing this program was a challenge, but thanks to the incredible support from facilitators and success managers, it was entirely achievable. There’s still a long way to go, but I am grateful that this course has broadened my perspective and shown me the bigger picture.

I recently completed the Data Science program offered by Cambridge University in Collaboration with FourthRev and found it to be highly comprehensive and well-organized. The curriculum balanced theoretical concepts with practical applications effectively, which greatly enhanced my learning experience. The teachers demonstrated deep expertise and were responsive to questions, creating a supportive learning environment. Overall, this program has significantly strengthened my data science skills, and I would confidently recommend it to professionals seeking to advance their knowledge in this field.

Great course, well organized and knowledgeable instructors. Overall a very fruitful experience.

Not at all neurodiversity friendly. Pages and pages of content to read through which I struggled to and sometimes just couldn't read.
E-mails weren't responded to in good time either.
My success manager was amazing though. She supported me through the course so well. Provided extentions when I needed them (all the time because I couldn't get through the content or assignments as fast as the others in the cohort). The actual projects we did were great too and the opportunity to work with an Employer was also amazing.
But I have now been applying for jobs since November last year and haven't managed to even get one first stage interview. At this stage I feel like I could have taught myself and been in the same place. £7000+ all of my maternity pay and savings gone with being told I'll get a job with a good income within 90 days of graduation. Genuinely disappointed. I have since joined a work experience Accelerator with another company and made massive progress on the job front thanks to them.

I think the course was very well organised, and the FourthRev staff were professional and efficient. I deeply enjoyed the course

I think the LSE Data Analytics Career accelerator was a fantastic opportunity to enhance my technical skills. With a background in market research and knowing first hand what analysts provided, I was very keen to become a more hands-on researcher. I wanted to be able to conduct my research and fully analyse the data I received. Doing this with an extensive knowledge of technical tools to speed up and refine potential insights that I can extract was the next step in my career. The FourthRev team and the lecturers from LSE were extremely kind and helpful through-out my studies. I would say this is a perfect opportunity for someone who is a keen self-learner. Thanks.

The Product Management Career Accelerator course was fantastic! It gave me a great appreciation of when Product Management is and real world, hands on experience of how to undertake high quality product management. Would highly recommend!

With an update review for this course: It is really dependent on who you get as a teacher. (The teachers are hired externally by Fourth Rev, they are NOT LSE teachers. The course is also written by Fourth Rev educators, and NOT LSE). The first teacher was the worst-Lack of preparation, lack of knowledge and huge incompetence.

It took the whole cohort to come together and complain about the quality of this teacher before Fourth Rev finally listened to us-half way through the course. At this point we appreciated their efforts in their attempt to fix things for us.

The 2nd teacher, who replaced the first teacher, Jenna Tiffany, was incredible. She was knowledgable, smart, and all the things we could hope for in an educator but we only had her for one project.

I would give the final teacher 3.6 out of 10. His class on CRM was good but the buck stopped there. His level of quality was low for the whole EP project, and many of us didn't think he had a whole lot to share. The quality of his feedback in ours and other group sessions were poor, conflicting with the company we worked with. Which, by the way you only see them twice. One at the beginning of the project, and one at the end for a total of 30mins.

On the whole, it's an ok course, and you'll learn about digital marketing but it's not great. Yes, you get real engagement but what use it that if the engagement is not valuable? Written content in varying sections were repetitive and many times, the programme structure was disorganised.

I would shop around. Pay particular attention to what they're advertising is in the course. We were not taught a couple of the tools they were marketing. We also found out too late that the good reviews for this Digital Marketing and Analytics course were in actual fact, coming from a totally different 4th Rev course and were a couple of years old.

Who teaches you is crucial to the programme. Talk to previous members first. For me, who had a lot of hope, I ended up very disappointed.

At £6k for what you get, I cannot recommend this course. The overall quality just isn't there.

I completely agree with the other posts on this site and wish that I had taken heed before signing up. I signed up for the Data Science with Machine Learning & AI Career Accelerator in 2025. I had high hopes due to the fact that it was associated with the University of Cambridge and had links with numerous well known companies. I was a little concerned that my level of coding was not up to the required standard but was given reassurance, asked to take a coding test which I passed with no problem and then the course began.
Right from the start the course was confused and hard to follow - I could have forgiven this if the teaching was as I expected but it was way below. There is one online lecture per week and an online Q&A - these are open to all - meaning up to 90 students to 1 tutor! The tutor was not able to control question asking etc and so the session often went off track so we would get through only a portion of the material.
The marketing information states that the course should take approx 20 hours per week. Most of my fellow students found it was taking them far longer and they were still not fully understanding the subjects.
Those without a professional coding background struggled in particular as new concepts are introduced on a weekly basis, with little explanation and almost no time to practice. The content bears no relation to the test set to determine whether you have the knowledge to enter the course.
The weekly materials are released on a Monday lunchtime and the lecture is on a Wednesday evening - if you don't have chance to do the work in that small window, its very hard to follow - this isn't conducive for part time study whilst working.
I know many people wished to withdraw during the first module but did not as you only get 50% of the high cost back. I have asked to withdraw on the basis that the course does not meet the standard that it promised but am still in dispute about a refund.
My advice is not to be sucked in by the brands involved - it is overpriced and I really feel that they only care about making money, not about providing quality education.

I did the Product Management Career Accelerator from Oct 2023 to June 2024.

FourthRev was great at marketing and selling the course to me, reassuring me of the quality of the course and the job opportunities off the back of it.
However, from the first day of onboarding until after finishing the course, I remain disappointed with the poor quality of FourthRev's delivery of the course support and structure.

Some examples of FourthRev's poor quality:
- Course is advertised as having product leaders (plural) teaching the content, when in reality you get 1 facilitator who you have face-time with and the other "product leaders" are simply in pre-recorded videos in course content. So if you're looking for networking opportunities with multiple product leaders, this is not the place.
- Employer Project is interesting as you get to work on a "real life" problem with a real employer, but you don't actually get much face-time with them so it doesn't actually feel very "real".
- Support Managers are assigned to learners and are meant to provide admin/pastoral support, however they are slow and require chasing in order to respond to simple questions (e.g. link not working in course content). Considering this is meant to be a fast paced course where new content is learned each week, this is not acceptable.
- Some inexperienced "product managers" grade your assignments. Feedback is generic and unhelpful.
- Course is advertised as having product leaders (plural) teaching the content, when in reality you get 1 facilitator who you have face-time with and the other "product leaders" are simply in pre-recorded videos in course content. So if you're looking for networking opportunities with multiple product leaders, this is not the place.
- Course assignments are meant to be graded like Master's degrees, but having done a BSc and MSc, I can say that the confusing requirements and structure of assignment tasks and grading rubrics felt very unprofessional and not like a Master's degree.

Overall I thought FourthRev advertised a meaningful and high quality course, however their poor organisation and support of the course tainted my overall experience. For the high price you pay for their courses, I would expect better quality organisation and more real opportunities to learn with different product leaders.

Poor value for money because of administration and execution, although the primary teaching was good.
I did the Product Management Accelerator with FourthRev from October 2023-July 2024. I was lucky to have an excellent lesson facilitator who delivered value, and have therefore given this two stars. However, FourthRev does not fulfil many of the promises made during selling and advertising this course:
- “Contact time” with the facilitator was limited and restricted to one facilitator only, where they had advertised contact time and teaching with several industry experts. Instead, we got short YouTube videos from these experts instead of any live discussion time.
- Most of my interaction was with success managers, who are not subject matter experts but rather there to assist with administrative issues, whereas this was misleading in the advertising. Additionally, administrative issues were either not addressed at all, or took many months to rectify impacting assignments
- The program was poorly executed and administered
- During advertising I was informed that we would be connected with and work with employer partners, and have access to such networks. The employer project felt like a tick box exercise to service this without real engagement with the employer partner
- The worst part was when FourthRev attempted to sell us paid job opportunities, ie. We pay hundreds of pounds for a “guaranteed internship” that doesn’t pay us. It took a lot of back and forth to convince them that this practice is illegal.

TLDR: If you are lucky enough to have an excellent facilitator like I did, this course will provide some value, but is not worth nearly how much they charge for it for all of its issues.