University of Phoenix

The school mission statement should be Overpromise/Under-deliver. Worst experience in my 49 yrs. Others charge much less, have better quality. No-one accepts their credits. BS received, will put it on resume leaving out the University name- too ashamed.

I got my Business/Finance degree from UOP back in 2006 with a 3.6 GPA. I was already in the Financial field at the time and needed a Bachellor's to continue in my career path. I had not fully completed earlier attempts at college and found this to be a program I could pursue at night while working full time. I took on-ground classes when I could, with finance classes offered and completed only online. It is truly a shame that UOP must outrun an undeserved bad reputation. I have benefitted greatly from the education I received and much of it applied DIRECTLY to the work I was doing (and is true today). In my experience, professors were successful, working professionals in the fields they taught and their guidance was absolutely invaluable. The only negative I experienced was from the bad reputation that UOP had garnered from reviewers like yourselves and from companies that did not value the degree. For that reason I got my MBA from a traditional B&M school (graduated 2011). UOP has a fine program if you are willing to learn and to take it seriously. If only their reputation matched with the high quality of the education then perhaps comapanies would value these potential employees as highly as they should.

I paid way too much for this worthless online degree. It taught me nothing. My first job - I made it through the HR door and was hired because of the degree. However, the expectation was that I had a very thorough knowledge of finance. I come to find out that all of my peers that went to REAL SCHOOLS got this background. UOP gave me EASY BS that I can't really remember nor apply to anything practical. BUYER BEWARE. You are not getting an education here, you are getting a life "ticket punch". Don't expect to have something to offer an employer after you get done paying off your student loans for this garbage. GO TO A REAL SCHOOL - PLEASE LISTEN.

I graduated from UOP with a BS in Finance in the summer of 2007. I liked the instructors there, and they did seem and prove that they knew very well what they were teaching and had much years of past and current experience to prove it. The learning teams were OK; there were pros and cons to it. But overall, I think I paid way too much for an education and it's been hard for me to advance in my career field for such an expensive education. I'm considering going back to school to get my MBA, but I'm sure that I will not be going back to UOP for that. I want to get an education from professors that focus more on teaching and education - not on profit. And also go to school that is "respected" more. I've gotten so many reject letters from companies that won't even give me an interview, and I believe the biggest reason is because I got my degree from UOP and not a "better" or highly established college.

Ok I will grant that they have a decent use of technology, but that is only because the classes are offered online. UOP charges way too much for tuition. The support from advisors or financial aid officares is crap. THey change or get fired every month. The e-books are very difficult to go through and find what you need. I was able to complete my degree with only having to crack the books to answer an occasional homework problem. The team learning sucks since most people do not do their part and the teachers don't seem to care. I think I have one maybe two instructors who had an idea of what they were teaching. Now that I am trying to get into grad school there are some that see my UOP degree as sub-par and want a higher GMAT. I graduated with a 3.2. I understand not the best, but after awhile I got to the point that it really did not matter what work i did.

worthless degree program. I completed two years of my bachelors program here. I then tried to transfer to a traditional school and they accepted precisely NONE of my credits. I was told by UoP that all their credits were transferable. I was told by the traditional school that UoP is considered a substandard program. After enrolling at the traditional school I understand why they say UoP is substandard. Avoid at all costs

I find this program to be easy and well organized. I did find that facilitators all teach differently but do follow the guidelines of the school. It was frustrating at times when the servers where down and when the school was updating to a new system. After the new system was put in place the frustration of emails not posted and assignments not posted was lessened. I found the online books to be easier to navigate then to have a book on hand. Overall I would recommend this program to anybody that can afford it. I have found that I can still work full time and still have family time even though I am at school everyday. I have enjoyed this program and will continue on to my master degree after a short break.