I don’t know where all this bashing the school because its online is coming from. This is an online degree website why bother going around bashing online schools because there not traditional brick and mortar? The University of Phoenix is regionally accredited by The Higher Learning Commission (HLC) as a member of the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools (NCA). It also has accreditation for a variety of its specialty degree programs, including its nursing and MBA programs. So all the online schools "not good enough" hate comments are bull. I have another beef with UoP, I consider their school to be ridiculous expensive for an online program. They are also very structured which made it difficult to complete coursework for working adults. You have to constantly log on and chat with other classmates. Like another reviewer stated people can cheat by riding off comments that you posted for a particular subject. I made a mistake once and submitted the wrong attachment to a lesson that was due, when I tried to re-submit I was denied and given zero for a common mistake. Don’t fret on getting a zero either, you have so many assignments and participation requirements getting a zero will hardly affect your grade because so much crap is due. UoP discussion boards are the worst, UoP claims that its necessary to communicate and debate with classmates to build self esteem and maturity around other working adults. What UoP fails to consider is that most people attending online schools are not 17 years old out of high school but middle class workers that probably communicate with customers/employers far more than traditional college students. I will agree that UoP is known by many employers to be an online school and might be look down upon as an inferior education, it might be better to go to a no name online school to avoid the suspicion. Over time as online schools continue to be acceptable alternative education from traditional ones will this stigma cease.

I've attended both a traditional four year college and UoP. It's disturbing to say the least that UoP doesn't have the reputation it deserves. They're definitley not a degree mill like some might think. The courses are tough and take a lot of work and effort to complete successfully. They are expensive and sell convenience. At the time I started there were no other regionally accredited colleges offering a degree online in information technology. UoP is ahead of the curve in online education and hopefully the public perception will change with other universities finally catching on.

I have not been impressed by UoP. The tuition is stupidly expensive and I have quite frankly not gotten much bang for my buck. I have had instructors that have been very unclear as to their requirements. I have an instructor in an abnormal psych class who is an attorney not a psychologist, and likes to take off points without real reasons other than I think she has a hard time giving full credit. I have had instructors argue APA formatting and I have APA software. I had a math instructor who was absolutely no help when I had questions. I dropped the class after 1 week and paid $240 for it out of pocket. My academic and financial counselors are about 12 and have no real world experience. I have had some decent instructors but over all I am not very impressed.