If I had any kind of a degree from U of P I wouldn't tell anyone.
A degree from them means nothing to me as far as education goes, the best I could say is that it could indicate a person has a long enough attention span to stick it out.
My take on University of Phoenix, or at least the one in La Mirada:
If you pay for the class you get a C. If you pay for it and actually show up, you get a B. If you pay for the class and show up and do any work at all, you get an A.
I enrolled there and took some classes just to get them out of the way. Turned out they didn't transfer to a real university so it was a total waste of time and money, but at least my company was paying for most of it.
First class:
Instructor (not a professor, not even close) assigned study groups.
I got stuck with a woman in our group who was on disability for some reason that wasn't apparent so she was getting paid to go back to school.
She didn't have any books or materials. Not even a pencil, even though reading was assigned and a paper was due on the first day (which she never did).
Next week, same thing. No books.
Third week, no books and she still hadn't done anything.
The group was supposed to be meeting every week to work on the final paper and presentation but several of them were not interested, didn't have time or whatever. I was losing patience.
So the next week (1 week before the paper was due), I just told them that I'd write it and give them their parts before we were supposed to present it.
I knocked it out, 10 pages with proper format and footnotes.
I made overhead slides (it was a while ago, OK?), wrote scripts for the other members for the presentation, all of it. Took about an hour and a half. It was actually pretty good.
We all end up getting an A on the final and in the class, even the woman who NEVER bought the books or study guide or did any work at all (except read the script I had given her and she barely got through that).
She hadn't done a single bit of work, but she sure was pissed at me!
She claimed that on the cover page of the paper I had put her name last because she was black and I didn't like her because I was racist!
I told her (in front of everyone) that I put her name last because the names were in
ALPHABETICAL ORDER and I didn't like her because she was lazy and worthless, and that the color of her skin had nothing to do with it.
Next class:
It was a marketing class. The first day the instructor asked if anyone planned to go into marketing for a living, everyone said no.
Then he said good, I don't want to waste your time and I don't want you to waste my time.
Go ahead and do what you want, the only assignment for this class will be the final paper and you don't have to do a presentation. Just turn in something with your name on it.
We would show up, hang out for an hour and leave. The instructor would play solitaire on his laptop the whole time, barely acknowledging that we were even there.
Again, I wrote a 10 page paper for the group but this time it was all crap I made up, and we all got an A. I doubt the instructor ever read the paper. I could have written jibberish and still recieved an A.
So if you want to get an easy degree that's basically meaningless, UOP is your place.
It seems to me that it that's all you want, buying a phony degree online would be faster and cheaper in the long run.
nope, not gonna say it, not gonna take the easy jab .... 