University Of Phoenix Online Money Grubbing Inadequate Teaching Personnel ripoff Phoenix Arizona
I enrolled in UoP in November 2004 when it was Axia college- after a brief (6 month) leave due to getting married and moving the college began to merge with Apollo and UoP. As if getting a name change and new FAFSA's filled out wasn't hard enough- the teachers seemed to have become complete moron's! I only have 4 classes left before I am done with their Associate degree in Business but let me tell you the hell I have endured to get to this point:
1.) My enrollment counsellor's and financial counsellors have changed so many times I cannot remember anyone's name now.
2.) They messed up my credit transfers due to the school merger and has cost me to move graduation back from July (this month) to November!
3.) I have had to contact "professor's" multiple times and in doing so found that they are drunk or otherwise intoxicated to the point they have become angry, accusitory, and even verbally assaultive to me.
4.) When I have complained to the "advisor" (again theres been so many) I have been literally chuckled at, told to "save for the end of the block of classes and put it in their survey - and outright refused a transfer or any other kind of satisfaction regarding that particular teacher. (one would THINK this was illegal).
5.) Had a teacher actually advise the class to use Wikipedia as a "fact based resource"! (UoP states they do not endorse and actually are against using Wikipedia for ANYTHING school related)
6.) The left hand NEVER knows what the right hand is doing and I have tried to contact higher-up's in regards to these types of going's on and I get put into the "please hold I will transfer you to someone who can help you" circle.
I am pretty sure that the verbal harrassment I encountered this last block by an intoxicated teacher has some type of legal rammifications available- but seeing as how no one will help me. I guess I am just going to have to stick it out until I graduate and then I am going elsewhere for my Bachelor degree because these people are like a cult!
Rebecca
Huntsville, Alabama
U.S.A.
6 Updates & Rebuttals
Margaret
Houston,Texas,
U.S.A.
STOP ATTENDING ALL THESE JUNK ON LINE SCHOOLS AND YOUR PROBLEMS WILL BE SOLVED
#7Consumer Suggestion
Mon, August 13, 2007
STOP ATTENDING ALL THESE JUNK ON LINE SCHOOLS AND YOUR PROBLEMS WILL BE SOLVED
All brick & morter colleges and community colleges offer on line classes now at reasonable state tuition rates. If everyone would just stop this Bull$#*& of attending these rip off places of higher education, you would not be getting yourselves in a financial bind, or having these rip off companies trying to ruin your credit. Then UOP, AXIA, STRAYER, CAPELLA, and who ever else Jon Doe for profit schools will close up shop and be gone for good!
These on line schools are a 100% rip off. I have taken a few on line classes through one of my local community college's and I am satisfied to know that its 100% accredited and transferable to any 4 year university, no questions asked.
Please everyone, stop giving yourself a heartache
Felipe
El Paso,Texas,
U.S.A.
Proctor and Gamble won't hire UOP grads?
#7Consumer Comment
Thu, July 19, 2007
The following is excerpted from an article in "The Ithacan" (online edition) indicating P&G won't hire UOP grads due to a lack of aacsb accreditation.
"Accreditation from the AACSB would give the business school an important seal of approval, said Granger Macy, associate professor of management and chair of the Program Assessment Committee.
'The accreditation is a clear sign to everyone inside and outside the school that we offer a top-flight business program,' Macy said.".....
And later,
"Accreditation standards have changed drastically over the years, Engelkemeyer said, to the point where some employers value accreditation over a student's academic accomplishments.
'Some of the larger companies, such as Proctor and Gamble, only hire from accredited institutions,' she said."
Thomas
Sacramento,Colorado,
U.S.A.
Ask Lee if the UOP is worried about the MBA!
#7Consumer Comment
Thu, July 19, 2007
I believe you are supposed to tell Lee Finkel about your problems. While you're at it, maybe ask him about these excerpts from a New York TImes front page story on the UOP. If I were going to get an MBA, I wonder how stories like these would influence me?
"Their business degree is an M.B.A. Lite, said Henry M. Levin, a professor of higher education at Teachers College at Columbia University. I've looked at their course materials. It's a very low level of instruction.
In November, the university's reliance on part-time faculty caused a problem with Intel, hundreds of whose employees it has educated. Alan Fisher, an Intel manager, said the company had decided to pay for employees to attend only highly accredited programs. Although Phoenix is regionally accredited, it lacks approval from the most prestigious accrediting agency for business schools, the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business."
Thomas
Sacramento,Colorado,
U.S.A.
Ask Lee if the UOP is worried about the MBA!
#7Consumer Comment
Thu, July 19, 2007
I believe you are supposed to tell Lee Finkel about your problems. While you're at it, maybe ask him about these excerpts from a New York TImes front page story on the UOP. If I were going to get an MBA, I wonder how stories like these would influence me?
"Their business degree is an M.B.A. Lite, said Henry M. Levin, a professor of higher education at Teachers College at Columbia University. I've looked at their course materials. It's a very low level of instruction.
In November, the university's reliance on part-time faculty caused a problem with Intel, hundreds of whose employees it has educated. Alan Fisher, an Intel manager, said the company had decided to pay for employees to attend only highly accredited programs. Although Phoenix is regionally accredited, it lacks approval from the most prestigious accrediting agency for business schools, the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business."
Thomas
Sacramento,Colorado,
U.S.A.
Ask Lee if the UOP is worried about the MBA!
#7Consumer Comment
Thu, July 19, 2007
I believe you are supposed to tell Lee Finkel about your problems. While you're at it, maybe ask him about these excerpts from a New York TImes front page story on the UOP. If I were going to get an MBA, I wonder how stories like these would influence me?
"Their business degree is an M.B.A. Lite, said Henry M. Levin, a professor of higher education at Teachers College at Columbia University. I've looked at their course materials. It's a very low level of instruction.
In November, the university's reliance on part-time faculty caused a problem with Intel, hundreds of whose employees it has educated. Alan Fisher, an Intel manager, said the company had decided to pay for employees to attend only highly accredited programs. Although Phoenix is regionally accredited, it lacks approval from the most prestigious accrediting agency for business schools, the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business."
Thomas
Sacramento,Colorado,
U.S.A.
Ask Lee if the UOP is worried about the MBA!
#7Consumer Comment
Thu, July 19, 2007
I believe you are supposed to tell Lee Finkel about your problems. While you're at it, maybe ask him about these excerpts from a New York TImes front page story on the UOP. If I were going to get an MBA, I wonder how stories like these would influence me?
"Their business degree is an M.B.A. Lite, said Henry M. Levin, a professor of higher education at Teachers College at Columbia University. I've looked at their course materials. It's a very low level of instruction.
In November, the university's reliance on part-time faculty caused a problem with Intel, hundreds of whose employees it has educated. Alan Fisher, an Intel manager, said the company had decided to pay for employees to attend only highly accredited programs. Although Phoenix is regionally accredited, it lacks approval from the most prestigious accrediting agency for business schools, the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business."