My diploma arrived yesterday
After two years and around $20,000 later, my associate’s degree diploma arrived yesterday from University of Phoenix. I’ve shared some of my experiences with UoP, and some have commented and shared theirs. Overall, my experience with the online school was not the best. Basically, I don’t believe the programs offered by Axia College of the University of Phoenix to be of much worth; certainly not worth the money required for their classes. While I can now hold a degree in my hand, I’m left feeling unaccomplished. This is perhaps the worst part. I don’t feel like I’ve accomplished anything at all. Yes, it’s just an associate’s degree; however, I do not believe that I would feel anymore accomplished if I pursued a bachelor’s from UoP. I think I would just feel all the more cheated. Cheated out of my time, and money.
Honestly, I learned little and was stretched even less. Toward the end of the associate’s program, while I was spending a majority of my time in a theatre, I was shocked at the decent grades I received on assignments that hardly met the criteria. I had to sacrifice some assignments for sake of time, but this reflected very little on my grades. I’m not saying that I didn’t do good work a majority of the time. My experience with being graded well on poor assignments is limited to the few assignments that I knowingly turned in without meeting all the requirements.
Now I’m left to wonder how I should go about actually accomplishing something in higher education. This requires that I decide on some sort of path of study. Heaven knows that my two years with UoP did little to aid me in that area. Yes, I want to go further and know that I’ll need to in order to be successful in something. The problem is that I don’t know what that something is and I fear locking myself into it at the expense of other things which could in fact be the best something for me.
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I’m glad to read that, I have been torn with whether or not to further my education via UoP, and I think this really helped me. Thanks for the post. I’m thinking about Empire State Online… hmmm. Narrows it down a little.
Hopefully you have a better experience than I did. I’m sure there are online programs out there that are more substantive and challenging. I’d search online for students who have taken classes from Empire State and see what kind of feedback they are providing. Had I done this with UoP, I may not have gone that route at all.