Is the University of Phoenix Online a legitimate degree?

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I was just wondering if anyone had received a degree from the University of Phoenix Online and if it is a real degree or just a certificate? Do employers take this degree seriously? Thanks for any stories or other suggestions!!

Answer 1

Legitimate? Yes.

Respectable? No.

The school is accredited. However, it is a For Profit Corporation that costs a lot more than respectable public universities. The school was fined a record $9.8MM last year for sleazy recruiting practices and is currently under investigation for padding their placement numbers.

Employers do not respect people with degrees from the school for two reasons. The first is that the school accepts nearly everyone. The lack of standards makes it hard for people to know what they are getting. The second is that it is felt that the classes taught there are light on the material.

Companies like Intel have recently decided that they will not pay for employees to take classes there because they lack rigor.

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The Jury is still out

U Phoenix is accepted by the masses less than homeschooling is accepted.

No one here has yet to say I got my BA from U Phoenix and Harvard Law School has admitted him.

That would set a precedent.

Many here say the course of study is very rough and you do learn.

The question is will SUNY Cortland admit you to a Masters program in Art History with a U Phoenix BA in Art History.

A BA program is a complete learning experience and I have no details on if U Phoenix offers acceptable courses in Biology, Chemistry, College Math 1 and 2, Poly Sci all of which are required by brick colleges for anyone to graduate, even a Football major.

I don't see how you can do Science Labs in U Phoneix. And ALL students have to take a Science LAB course to get a BA, even Art Majors, it may only a biology and College Chemistry Lab course (baby science) but 1 year of science is manditory for a BA degree in anything.

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UOP is regionally accredited, the highest level for a universitiy (whether online or onground) and graduates have completed an accredited and reviewed course of study. Yes it is a real degree, the delivery format is just different.

We are one of the largest employers in the state and we accept UOP degrees, and have had people become successful with them. Many of them are military personnel and working parents. Check with your potential employer, they should have a policy on acceptance of accredited degrees only.

To correct Tranto, Intel (singular company, not companies) passed a new requirement that tuition assistance would be limited to AACSB-accredited schools, which is a good policy, but a very high standard that only about 5% of all universities meet. UOP is not one of those schools, nor are most.

That being said, like CoachTurner says, on a comparative scale, it doesn’t hold as much water and you should look into one of the fine options he mentions. It is also too expensive by far.

Legitimate? Yes. Will you learn? Of course. Accepted by employers? Yes, but not preferred. Best when paired with good experience. Can you find a better one? Yes.

Answer 10

Let my start by saying that I was an enrollment advisor for University of Phoenix Online, and AXIA/WIU Online under Apollo Group for 3 years. I recently quit from my position as one of their highest paid advisors. Paid on the amount of enrollments I did in 2003. I also completed my MBA/MKT while there.

For all of you in this forum defending this organization, you are simply spewing ignorance and rehashing information provided you by this organization. Please stop, you are not doing any good and I am sorry to say this, but you are wrong. So wrong that it borders on ignorance.

Let defend something for a moment. The company as a whole does contain good people, some of which do try and help and have good intentions. The problem stems directly from one man the CEO, Brain Muller. He has set in motion internal policies that create a hopeless scenario for all within the organization. They either comply, lose money, or are fired. When you start threatening a person's lively hood, they will usually fall in line. This is why so many good people have had to deceive or lie to potential students, and why you see so many reports in this forum.

There are many things that can be addressed here but let's start with some basic things. Accreditation. UOP Online is Accredited by the North Central Association of the Higher Learning Commission (Perdue Shares the same body as do many other schools) However, this really does not mean anything.

Yes, UOP has their programs screened and verified by the HLC, but their accreditation is not reviewed for years. What most people do not realize is that it is extremely hard to loose accreditation once you have it. There is no active monitoring of courses or instructors. Any audits that take place require UOP be given advanced warning.

This means that can basically provide sub-par courses for outrageous prices. Yes, their classes are a joke. If you believe that college is about shooting emails back and forth via Outlook Express and working in "Learning Teams" then you are delusional. Fact: Learning Team arose as a reaction to an audit by the Federal Government on UOP's financial aid usage. They had to require learning teams in order to maintain Title IV funding capacity.

As said before, UOPO is fully accredited, but they do not require the GMAT for the MBA programs. What does this mean? It means that they do not have AACSB Accreditation. Here is more on that: http://www.aacsb.edu/ This is why when I present my MBA to professional organizations, they laugh. Sorry to inform you, but your degree is not as valid as you want it to be.

Next I would like to address the organizations misuse of funds. They have been for many years now, embezzling monies from their employees and Title IV funding.

Let's start with Title IV. As mentioned about, they were abusing access to funding in the late 90's by claiming student living expenses on their report for on campus housing. Hmmmm, online makes that a little hard to validate. They were using this money as venture capital to finance growth and investments. They continue to do so till this day, just in a different way.

First, you must understand the accounting variables that go into a billion dollar company. There is money flying all over the place on their balance sheets. Income, expenditures, investments, etc. It is a fact that UOP has continuously decreased its amount of new enrollments each year since its peak in 2003. This is part of the reason they rolled the UOPX stock back into Apollo group last year. However, the CEO's Brain Muller and Todd Neilson still need to generate shareholder interest to keep the stock high.

Now, if there is a decrease in enrollments as compared to prior years, but the CEO is still claiming huge growth in years to come, how does the company make up for that? By counting scheduled students as enrollments for their report without every actually having those students start.

There is one problem. Smart investors can look at organizations financial statements and tell if they are losing money. So how does UOP make up the money difference in the accounting department? 2 ways. First, it decreases the pay of its employee workforce and (for years) violated AZ and Federal Overtime law by making overtime mandatory but refusing to pay employees overtime wages.

A quick search online will reveal the lawsuit filed by the AZ Dept of Labor last year and the $10 Million settle UOP had to pay. 10 Million? Sounds like a lot right? Not when you consider the amount it saves over the last 20 years by not paying overtime wages. Somewhere in the 100 million mark. Wonder how they were able to grow so rapidly?

Second, accounting is basically money in, vs money out in an organization. When you are dealing with a billion dollar company, it is hard to keep track of every dollar. One might wonder why UOP Online takes so long to distribute Title IV funding to students. They tell you it takes 2 to 3 months, this is a lie.