University of Phoenix - Master of Arts in Education

Won't recommend it... won't return!

By: Anonymous (Graduate) on June 2, 2007

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Just graduated and I am still working on a complaint I had against an instructor almost 4 months ago. Many instructors are quite helpful, but there are quite a few who aren't and unfortunately those FEW really affect your experience! 

-I was out having a child that came early and an extension WAS NOT GRANTED. Offered doctors not and everything.  Still nothing. Most of the time the instructor just simply ignored me. If I had known she wasn't going to be flexible... I would have dropped the course. 

I contested the extension policy (would think the school in general would have a particular set of rules and guidance, but nope.... I was informed that instructors have the right to grade any way they choose and they do not have to grant extensions, even legitimate ones!  So, the grade grievance process is a band-aid. It is only there to let you think you have another channel to work through. 

-Flexible?  Geared toward working adults? Military friendly?  Nope, not in any way, shape or form. I find it hard to believe instructors have a FULL week to provide feedback to students in a five week course. If you have a follow up assignment and haven't received the feedback from the first assignment, how do you move forward?  

My advisor was HORRIBLE. Once again, he ignored my emails, didn't return voice mails, and failed to provide me with the assistance I needed to rectify this course. 

I should have graduated with a 3.95, but due to one class, where I received a C+, I graduated with much lower. 

Ridiculous. 

The school ONLY cares about money... not the students. When things are great, you can talk to your counselor all day. When things are bad... you can't ever reach them!!! 

Find another school that is a better value. At least if they screw you over, you wouldn't have handed them over a grand for each course you take!