University of Phoenix

[JD50]

UoP and Strayer are great for people that are already in the career. After a bit of experience your degree is just a check box to upper management, the school that you attended is irrelevant. There are exceptions of course, depending on your field.

 

[jteef]

i'm pretty biased, having worked in the government sector for the past 7 years. non-competitive online degree programs have severely damaged the quality of the federal workforce, particularly in the military. computer science is the most egregious bachelors program and MBAs are the most egregious masters program, in my experience. I haven't witnessed a federal employee using a concept from any of their masters programs. not one.

I lose a lot of respect for anything less than a competitively selective program (at any level)

 

[DrPizza]

UoP and Strayer are great for people that are already in the career. After a bit of experience your degree is just a check box to upper management, the school that you attended is irrelevant. There are exceptions of course, depending on your field.

Yep.

I had to take an undergrad level course to meet some retarded prerequisite for master's levels courses I had already taken, so I took intro to business 101 through Strayer. What a friggin joke.

Each week, I had to answer 2 or 3 discussion questions, and had to respond to two other students' responses. The discussion questions didn't promote any sort of discussion at all. Most responses were just a couple of short sentences, often quoting the book word for word (without attributing the book as their source, but plagiarism was generally ignored.) Responses were typically, "I like your response." "Great answer!" etc.

Oh, and let's not forget the 10 question quiz each week; 90% of the answers were easily googled. Plenty of "trick" types of true/false questions. I missed a couple simply because I was using current information and the circumstances had changed since the time the textbook was written. Other times, the question was based on the text which glossed over complicated scenarios. "True," according to the text, but if you really understood the situation, definitely false. At least, I assumed the correct answer was based on the text - I didn't have a text though. And, let's not forget the 5 page paper (*gasp*) that I had to write, with THREE references! (OMG!)

In short, I spent roughly 2 hours over the course of the semester to earn that A. It would have been 1 hour, but I put more effort into a couple of emails disputing the answers to a few questions than I put into the entire course. Midterm was a joke: 50 questions, all from quizzes that had already been taken & which we were given the answers to. Ditto the final exam. And, of course, I had all the old quizzes right in front of me (not that I needed them.)