University of Phoenix - Master of Business Administration

Great School but Unfortunately Bad Reputation

By: Anonymous (In Progress) on September 20, 2009

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I earned a Bachelor of Science in Nursing from the University of Florida which was phenominal.  When I started UoP I must say that I didn't feel challenged until I started taking the accounting and finance classes.  Those classes were taken on ground.  I must say that had it not been for some of my team members I would not have understood what I learned because some of the instructors really were not that great, but I can say that for some of my undergrad courses as well!!!  Thank God I had no slackers in my advanced classes. I am worked hard but I can't say that I really learned or retained any information in those harder math based classes, but then again I can say that about many undergrad courses I took at UF!!  Now, I am finishing my classes online and it is so much better because there is less focus on the team learning and I feel more responsible for my work and I am working very hard. I do have to say that I almost quit when I first began because of so much bad publicity UoP was receiving and I didn't want to be associated with that university.  I wanted people to know that I had a REAL degree.  I am finishing my MBA because I am too close to finishing and I don't want to be known as a quitter.  I guess time will tell after I earn my degree if I do get that desired position. I think that online degrees are getting better reviews nowadays. I only wish that UoP would stop advertising so much.  It does appear to be a degree mill in that sense but it is not. I am working HARD. I know that I am earning my MBA and that my degree is REAL!!!  I think that many haters of UoP are lazy dropouts who want an easy way out and make it bad for the rest of us hard working students.  It is a shame, but when there is a university as big as UoP, there are going to be many critics as well.