Margaret
Houston,#2Consumer 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,#3Consumer 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,#4Consumer 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,#5Consumer 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,#6Consumer 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,#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."