Doctor of Management in Organizational Leadership

Baloney. Again, Baloney. 

Well of course you're going to give it a good review- only a fool would be critical of the Ph.D. program they're wasting their time and money on.  Truth is  U Phoenix is a joke -why would you do post-grad work there and not a real school?  Because a real school won't admit you - simple. 

This school has been the worst academic experience of my life. It was a hell, and the above reviews stating that it's all great and perfect i wonder if they are real people, since it seems that UoP spends a lot in marketing (especially on the web and on TV). In about 18 months i had to take classes with several professors who appeared they had been fired by their companies, and my feeling is that they advertised that as it was a privilege. One was truly a great professor. I was enrolled in the Doctorate of Management and leadership but i don't recall I have had one professor who had a Doctorate degree in business, or economics, or finances, or management.., they were psychologists. 

The servers that host the website (the class) seemed to be non reliable, once we couldn't access the school website for about a week. None knew how to proceed or what to do. 

In 18 months they changed my academic counselor like 3 or 4 times without any reason, and i don't remember how many financial counselors I have had, which at the end, messed up my FAFSA; I had to escalate to the highest grievance committee to get the things fixed. What seemed to be the most ridiculous thing was that the person against which i was appealing, was the same person who had the faculty to accept or reject my appeal, and of course it was rejected twice. 

They advertise the school is online, but it appears to be different. You have to travel to Phoenix once a year and spend 4 days there, which seemed to me the middle of nowhere. During my first year we were supposed to work on critical thinking, management theories and things like that (as expected if you are enrolled for a degree in management): guess what? We spent 4 days talking about child development and Piaget!!

When i started to doubt about this school i began to look out to see the value of their degree, in other words, how companies look to a degree awarded by University of Phoenix. I was shocked. It seemed it had almost no value!! At that point i switched to another university, on-ground campus, i started from the beginning as they did not consider any class/unit from UOP, and i'm now at the end of my degree, and soon i'll be a doctor and a manager! 

I'm sure there are people who have had a different experience, my suggestion is: look around, 360 degrees, and chose the school that better fits your expectations/needs. Read its reviews on as many websites as you can, see where its former students are now working, and remember, you are the author of you future. If that is UOP then go ahead and good luck! :)

I am in my second year with the DM program through UoP and am quite pleased. It is a rigorous program. It takes dedication and hard work, but has already been very rewarding! The professors are knowledgeable and experienced. My year one residency was easily one of the most intense and rewarding experiences of my life. I look forward to beginning serious work on my dissertation in the coming weeks and to the opportunities that will follow!

I am currently in the second year of my DM.  I have completed the second year residency and half way through academics and working diligently on my dissertation.  Listen, this is no cake walk!  The classes are rigorous, challening and really make you critically think and support your work and ideas.  Granted there are no exams...to me that is good because all exams prove are that you can memorize stuff and forget it.  Their approach with 8 weeks of continual writing, problem solving, analysis with written work is a challenge...and to backup your thoughts with research is both rewarding and challenging.  Again, no cake walk here.

I earned a DM from UOP in 2006. All of the classes are not online. We had to complete three 2-week residencies and two weekend residencies. Essentialy, we spent about nearly 50 days of the program in Phoenix doing coursework in typical classroom setting.

Additionally, the program was quite rigorous. Only three members of my eight member cohort have completed their dissertations and graduated. Also, UoP gets a "bad rap" occasionally, but the professors were very knowledgeable and would not accept sub par assignments. 

Finally, one of the members of my cohort received a book deal with his dissertation committee on casino gaming and is a full professor at UNLV. This degree can really open some doors if you are willing to do the work.