Thannks, Steve...

I will get the homework done on this... good advice.

AZ

I'm with Steve on that one.

kcdpas:

tedmeister:

What do these people at Rip-Off Report expect? Private universities are very expensive because they are not getting subsidies from their state legislatures.

Don't really want to argue with you. If many say avoid a school, I would. You could still go at your own risk:)

UoP has nearly 300,000 students. If they have even a normal proportion of discontented customers, the raw number is enourmous.

Better to read the nature of the complaints to look for consitency and for things that resonate with you.

Funny, but one doesn't hear their graduates kvetching....

I am currently going to UOP. There is even a campus about 45 minutes away from me. I did look into many online colleges and I found UOP to be the best for me. There are no books to buy. There is one major sofware to have and that is the Microsoft word. I am getting my associates in business. I started December 28, 2008. You have 2 classes for 9 weeks. Then you start a new set of classes for the next 9 weeks. Where I am there is alot of miltary people that is going to UOP from what another miltary friend told me. The best thing to do is talk to the school counslers and get all the information you can get and see if you get a good or bad vibe from them. I talked to a few schools and got bad vibes from them, and some of them didn't want to take the time to answer my questions. So make sure you get all the information you want before you make your choice. Good luck!

All these rants on ripoffreport are nonsense.  I go to Kaplan University.  There are tons of rants against them on that site, but I have had no bad experiences with them, other than the fact that some of their people don't know how to return phone calls.

Going to a strictly online school will do nothing but hinder you(unless of course your current employer is promising promotion, extra pay etc)in the long run.

There are so many online degree programs offered by B&M state and private universities that there really is no need to pay the ridiculous price for these for profit online schools.  Not to mention a state or private not for profit school is going to be more recognized and have a better reputation than U of P, AIU or Kaplan etc.  

 My advice is to check out your state universities that are offering online degrees.  Most can be had for 1/2 or nearly 1/3 the price of U of P or Kaplan.  

fatguynlittlecoat:

Going to a strictly online school will do nothing but hinder you(unless of course your current employer is promising promotion, extra pay etc)in the long run.  There are so many online degree programs offered by B&M state and private universities that there really is no need to pay the ridiculous price for these for profit online schools.  Not to mention a state or private not for profit school is going to be more recognized and have a better reputation than U of P, AIU or Kaplan etc. My advice is to check out your state universities that are offering online degrees.  Most can be had for 1/2 or nearly 1/3 the price of U of P or Kaplan. 

I agree that one should consider all one's options, and that it's very important for most people to consider tuition rates when deciding on a school.  But I disagree that going "to a strictly online school will do nothing but hinder you".  That's nonsense.

-=Steve=-

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B.S., Info Sys, Charter Oak State College
M.A., Educational Tech Leadership, George Washington University
Doctor of Health Education, A.T. Still University, in progress

I'm with Steve on this.  It may come as a surprise to you to discover that UofP actually has more CAMPUS based students than any other school in the U.S. (at least last time I checked).  So much for being an online school only huh?  Aside from that there are some really great only only or "virtual" universities out there that I would hire a grad from without a second thought to their education, APUS being chief among them.

Yeah, but the quality of the students at most of these schools like U of P are generally lacking.  If you have the money, they will accept you.  I know several people that studied at U of P, the general consensus was that they must let anyone and everyone in.  It's not really a good thing that they have so many students.  Wouldn't that make them completely non-selective?  If every private and state school accepted anyone and everyone, I'm sure they could boast and brag about how many students attend as well lol. 

 U of P, Walden, Kaplan etc...they are the butt of most people's jokes in higher education.  

fatguynlittlecoat:

Yeah, but the quality of the students at most of these schools like U of P are generally lacking.  If you have the money, they will accept you.  I know several people that studied at U of P, the general consensus was that they must let anyone and everyone in.  It's not really a good thing that they have so many students.  Wouldn't that make them completely non-selective?  If every private and state school accepted anyone and everyone, I'm sure they could boast and brag about how many students attend as well lol. 

 U of P, Walden, Kaplan etc...they are the butt of most people's jokes in higher education.  

I think the whole concept of an open university is going over your head here.  Of course they have nominal screening, that's the point, then they subject the student to the same rigors of a program without compromise and allow the course content to screen out those who can hack it and those who cannot.  In fact this is not a new concept whatsoever, one of the more famous institutions who do this is the Open University in the UK. 

fatguynlittlecoat:

Yeah, but the quality of the students at most of these schools like U of P are generally lacking.  If you have the money, they will accept you.  I know several people that studied at U of P, the general consensus was that they must let anyone and everyone in.  It's not really a good thing that they have so many students.  Wouldn't that make them completely non-selective?  If every private and state school accepted anyone and everyone, I'm sure they could boast and brag about how many students attend as well lol.

There are hundreds of public colleges in the U.S. with open admissions.  They're called "community colleges".  They've done a very good job making higher education available to a whole lot of people for whom it was formerly out of reach.  The sort of tired elitism you're promoting lost this battle quite a while ago.

U of P, Walden, Kaplan etc...they are the butt of most people's jokes in higher education.

I work in higher education and don't find this is the case.  No one says they're ivy league, but that doesn't mean they can't meet many people's needs.  Besides, it was traditional higher education's lack of responsiveness to the needs of working adults that led to the rise of these schools in the first place. 

-=Steve=-

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B.S., Info Sys, Charter Oak State College
M.A., Educational Tech Leadership, George Washington University
Doctor of Health Education, A.T. Still University, in progress

Anonymous:

Hi ana - I'm sorry to tell you that neither U of P nor AIU are especially prestigious here in the USA.  Please look here for alternatives:

http://www.elearners.com/online-degrees/associate/criminal-justice.htm

Neither of the above schools are "bad" but each has negative characteristics.  You are smart to check around before making a choice.  There are many, many Criminal Justice degree programs available.  Most are not included in the above link.  Read carefully before you decide.

"Yeah, but the quality of the students at most of these schools like U of P are generally lacking". Unbelievable!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I go to UOP and I am not lacking. I am a supervisor at a powerplant and I work for a large company and my managers are tickled that I am attending college. They have no problem with me attending UOP. What a joke!!!!!!!!!!!! Get a life and quite bashing UOP.  

Steven:

"Yeah, but the quality of the students at most of these schools like U of P are generally lacking". Unbelievable!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I go to UOP and I am not lacking. I am a supervisor at a powerplant and I work for a large company and my managers are tickled that I am attending college. They have no problem with me attending UOP. What a joke!!!!!!!!!!!! Get a life and quite bashing UOP.  

I wouldn't stress about it.  People say things like that because they're new and think it makes them sound edgy and well informed.  But it doesn't work -- there are too many people around here who have actual experience with proprietary schools and know better.

-=Steve=-

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B.S., Info Sys, Charter Oak State College
M.A., Educational Tech Leadership, George Washington University
Doctor of Health Education, A.T. Still University, in progress

I work with (and have worked with) too many UofP alumni who were bright, intelligent, professionals to even humor such BS.  But that's just my own personal (and humble) observation.