University of Phoenix-Corporate Office

I just want to urge anyone who is considering the University of Phoenix to

please reconsider. First and foremost, the extremely high cost of tuition at

the University is not a fair exchange for the subpar education you receive.

You will be paying for shorter classes and peer learning, and from the

research I've done, most employers do not recognize a degree from University

of Phoenix as much more than a piece of paper.

I made the smartest decision ever by changing schools. I now attend Oklahoma

State University. Not only is it a division one school more widely

recognized, but its CHEAPER! The kicker is, the classes you take at UOP are

mostly non-transferrable to any State funded or division one school. After

many arguments and debates, frustrations and setbacks, a number of Oklahoma

colleges finally took UOP to court just to get a course catalog with

comparative class information for their courses so they would no longer be

left with the burden of trying to determine which classes you need credit

for when transferring. Secondly, you cannot get a transcript of your classes

from UOP unless you order it from the main campus either online, or by

calling at a cost of 7.00 per transcript. Need an overnight transcript? How

about a charge of 45.00 + the cost of the transcript itself! Yep, you got

it! 52.00 dollars for a piece of paper delivered to you the next day (within

2 days if you don't order by 10am Phoenix time!) I've sent heavy parcel mail

via Ebay transactions for less than that overnight!

The bottom line is, The University of Phoenix engages in unethical business

practices. I have filed formal complaints against them with the Better

Business Bureau. Will that make them change their ways? Probably not. But an

informative website like Complaints.com help average people like myself make

informed decisions. Should you decide to attend UOP, I'd like to say "I told

you so" before you're the next person here expressing your frustration.

Sincerely

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I just like to say that I am a HR general for a F500 company, and as long as the degree is accredited, you can get hired. UoP is just terrible for working adults to attend and the price is way too much money in the long run for a degree. There are other online universities out there. My sister in-law graduated from UoP.

You all who are complaining need to read the documents that you sign first, like I told her. I graduated from a traditional university, and it works the same. Financial aid isn't going to pay your entire tuition, you must have just gotten it from UoP to cover some classes, but not all. Financial aid is a government program, the government is not going to pay for your degree...get real. Furthermore, if UoP didn't receive your FA money yet and you failed a class, well of course they would charge you for it before releasing you transcripts and by law send the money back to DOE. This is WHY you guys need to get a degree so that you don't sound foolish when complaining about something that isn't founded. Like I told my sister in-law, if you allowed some advisor to tell you the truth, you're the fool. UoP work off commission, their best interest is not in you. You have to be the one to educate yourselves before picking a school. BTW - My sister in-law has a better job than I do.

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As mad as I am and as backwards as they are, I worked at FedEx Ground for 6 years and they do not care where you earn your degree from as long as it's an accredited school. Also, my daughter is in the U.S.Marines and UOP is an education option at the government level. In fact more than half of the students in the classes I took were from the military.

My beef here is that when I enrolled at UOP the financial aide forms created an amount that I would be able to contribute, toward cost, while in attendance. That amount was zero. Now I have taken a shot at my first two classes and I fell behind, due to family issues. I was communicating this and trying to avoid complications that this could create. I didn't really make the deadlines and was basically tossed out of the University until I can pay them the $2000. for the two classes that I need to retake.

Financial Aide will not pay for them.

I have 56 credit hours from my community college, from which I have have to retake courses there as well. BUT, at the community college there are FA probation's and you are not automatically in debt if you do not pass a class but you will have to pay out-of-pocket for the retake.

Why would UOP charge me $2000. to continue my education there if just 6 weeks prior they worked my financial's and concluded that I was broke?

They did not take any money from my financial aid - so I didn't get ripped but I have lost the chance to pursue my degree after they got be believing that I could.

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I agree with the initial comment. As a university professor, I urge students not to pursue education with "fast track" colleges such as UoP. With perhaps an exception in business, the degree is no where close to the education one receives at a nationally recognized university. In all honesty, these colleges are considered a joke among educated professionals.

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I am not sure where you got the price for your transcripts but that isn't right I overnighted it too and it was like $15 not 50. Also when I transfered to UNT in Denton to finish up my degree all my credits transfered so I don't know where you get this. The truth is it's such a large university 400,000 students that when 1000 people complain its may seem like a lot but that is the same as 3 people complaining about a smaller university. The truth is I have never had aproblem with getting a job and UOP being on my resume and I am proud of it. I actually got a job at as an HR manager making $70000/yr because my peer was working there and told me they had some openings in dallas.. Verizon actually pays 100% of their employees to go to UOP along with a bunch of other very large corp companies because those employers believe in their education. Examples of this are FBI, IRS, Verizon, Xerox, Boeing, Sprint and Ford Motor credit. You can contact any of these empoloyers hr department and find this info out. So nothing your really say sounds ligit. It just sounds like you are bitter about something else and I have found that it's usually that person's fault.