University of Phoenix Fraud! Huge Scam!
88July 6, 2009 - University of Phoenix Fraud! Huge Scam!
Thinking about attending a 4-year online college? Think again. The University of Phoenix Online is a huge for-profit diploma mill. This online college operates to take your money and teach you nothing. I know this for a fact because I attended their Bachelors of Science in Information Technology program, I graduated with a conceited 3.9 grade point average, and almost a year after graduating from their program, I am still unemployed. I didn't learn anything in their program, only type papers all day long, and I have a huge $50,000.00 debt in student loans that I have to pay back.
A former employee of the University of Phoenix Online claims this fraudulent business is there first and foremost only for the money. You can read his entire claim published 5/31/2009 here:
http://www.ripoffreport.com/reports/0/457/RipOff0457045.htm#427423
So, if education doesn't matter, why allow for any college or university to remain in operation if money is the first and only issue? Why isn't the Department of Education shutting down this huge scam?
I've done tons of online research and at web site "ripoffreport.com", I've read about students getting easy A's and I mean easy. Former students claimed receiving an A for turning in work late but they still got an A as in 100%. Other students on this web site claimed they got 98% because they failed to turn in a bibliography or works cited page. Well, isn't it called plagiarism if you don't turn in a bibliography page?
I was particularly interested in the section about the University of Phoenix awards ceremony. The sales people, the enrollment counselors, got 70% of the awards, the academic counselors got 20%, and the financial aid counselors got the remaining 10%. Well why would a financial aid counselor get an award? For what? Financial aid counselor of the year?
We need to shut down this diploma mill now!
I'm glad I attended the University of Phoenix Online because my 2 years there has proven that this college is indeed a huge scam!
Here are just a few obvious claims of this diploma mill in operation:
1. They enroll anyone and everyone meaning if you can't get accepted at any 2 year or 4 year college, they will accept you, even if you failed your S.A.T. exam.
2. You don't have to take any SAT or other scholastic achievement college entrance examinations to enroll.
3. You don't have to take the GRE (Graduate Record Examination) to enroll in graduate level study.
4. The majority of colleges and universities in the U.S.A. state that if you have been out of college for 10 years, all of your college credits that you have earned become expired, meaning, you have to start all over again, as a freshman with 0 college credits. University of Phoenix Online will still accept your college credits even if you've been out of school for 20 years.
5. They will take life experiences as college credit.
6. They enroll people with extremely bad English grammar and writing skills.
7. They say that they'll train you and teach you job skills like how professionals do it in the real world and they don't.
8. Classes are an easy 5 weeks of typing papers and relying on the person with the most knowledge to pass the learning team.
9. Classes are taught by facilitators, not instructors or teachers.
10. You will get some nasty instructors that won't answer any of your telephone calls or emails until the class is over. I can prove it with my Windows Networking instructor, Mr. Paul Rouk because he finally contacted me 2 weeks after the class was over! As a teacher, shouldn't you be passionate about helping your students succeed and become over-achievers? I would help my students succeed in every possible way, not ignore their telephone calls or email messages, wait 2 weeks until the class is finished, and then offer the student help. What if the student failed the class and had to repeat it again? What if the student had to repeat the same class with the same instructor?
11. The academic and financial aid counselors will be there for you saying even though you're not learning anything, once you get your bachelors degree, you'll be able to get a better job in your field of study. They're telling you this and being nice to you so they can get paid but what they should be telling you is that once you graduate, you'll have a "worthless" degree in your hands. Once you graduate, you'll be unemployed and wish you attended your local state university. I graduated a year ago in July 2008 and I'm still unemployed. I've read complaints about former students who graduated 3 years ago and are still not working in their field because they were improperly and inadequately trained.
12. Many employers don't acknowledge resumes with the University of Phoenix credential.
13. They only care about your money, not the education you receive.
Basically, they'll do anything to get your foot in the door. I've heard scandals that they have enrolled students who don't hold valid high school diplomas or a G.E.D. and that is a serious offense because in order to qualify for financial aid such as pell grants or subsidized stafford loans, you need a valid high school diploma or G.E.D.
Lastly, the University of Phoenix has lost several legal battles and paid one settlement of more than $250 million dollars for de-frauding investors. The University of Phoenix lost another legal battle to former employees who claimed they were discriminated against because they were not affiliated with the Mormon religion. The University of Phoenix ended up paying 9 million dollars to those former employees. Google "University of Phoenix lawsuit law suit legal battle" and you'll find more cases.
We need to stop this online college scam now! We need to bring down this 2 billion dollar company now!
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People, please sympathize with me here or your children/yourself would be the victim like me today. I been got trick and trap by this website here. First off all, i was looking for the Ultra sound technician as i was get tin he adverstise through my email. then i click in this link and it ask me to leave the name and number then they would call me back. Next day, they they call me up and meet me at the office in Fairfield Califnornia, then told me that they do not have the program like i was asked for, however they refer me the other programs but it has to be Bacherlor degree, etc...and not to worry about the financial problem because the Goverment financial aid will help you to cover that... "However, you could be the whatever project mananger ... after i graduate..." (they said and promise me with the good and better future). Then i choose the other program which i like beside the Ultra Sound Technician such as "Computer Security Information". At the first class, my feelings told me something wrong with this school, i tried to drop and not continous with this school, then they were threaten me and said it too late now because I have been sign the contract and paper, and I could be in debt with colector if i tried to get out with this school. Then they offered me to take one more class so the financial will cover your classes tuition... Now, at the end situation, i am in debt with more then $7, 211.00 for those 2 classes...
In my conlusion, this school are trick and trap for all of us here. Myself, you or may be even your children could be a victim right now and future. I hope our government should shut down this school for good, or otherwise they will continous to trick and ripe off the other people like me.
P.S: I was learn nothing from this school, what i was doing in this school was attend online 1 or 2 hours every day from Mon-Sat and talk all B.S to whatever subjects as teacher and students posted, beside nothing relate to my major. So, it looks like we use the money to buying our degree... And i beleive most students from this school after they graduate they would have no skills at all to their major study beside chit chat online, , , , , , , , However, i was learn my lesson which is $7, 221 for these 2 classes at Pheonix Univerisy. PLEASE DO NOT TRY AT HOME, AND PLEASE DO NOT TRY TO BE LIKE ME.!!!
I am laid off and have no job... i do not know how i would paid them back with this BIG AMOUNT of money. PLEASE HELP ME OUT TO TALK ABOUT THIS TO OTHER PEOPLE, AND PLEASE DO NOT BE A VICTIM LIKE ME.
I am laid off and have no job... i do not know how would I could pay off for this debt with this BIG AMOUNT of money.
As a current UOPX student in the Masters program I urge potential students to consider all of their choices carefully.
The standards set by the instructors at UOPX are ridiculously low. Individual papers are 700-1000 words with no APA formatting or citations required. In an average week about 1-2% of public discussion board questions use citations or references. The sad fact of the matter is most of the instructors don't care and are too lazy to enforce anything or even make constructive suggestions to students. Most of the instructors barely comment on your grades or participate in discussion boards.
The work generated in the cohorts is nowhere near graduate level quality. Be advised that while this is not a diploma mill that you may be disappointed and discouraged by the lack of academic challenge in the program.
Hello I am in the same vote i completed the classes all but all but a math class. I completed in 2006 and still have not got a job, so i went further and got microsoft certified thinking this would get me that job. wrong answer now as the economy has turned the jobs are scarsed and geting worse i feel i have been cheated out of something good as well and paying back alot money i dont have.
UoP are scam artists and fakes 100%!!! I could only attend for three week because my son became ill and was in the hospital. In that time I apparently earned 3 credits in 3 weeks and had a C average even though I was in the hospital...not in class. Then 4 years after I withdrew I found that they signed me up for a criminal justice program that I would never take just so they could take more money from a loan. They ruined my credit and I have been fighting this since I found out about it 8 months ago. Apparently it has been affecting me since 2004 (5+ years) and I didn't even know it.
ssaffery says:
5 months ago
behindthescenes says:15 hours ago
Perhaps you should site your sources for your 13+ points. They are so generic it is embarrasing. 1. They do have standard. You must enter with a 2.0 gpa. Low? Yes. Unheard of? Certainly not. All people deserve the right to a higher education. 2. I can literally name about a hundred schools that do not require an SAT score. Do your homework. 3. This is a different scenario. Many schools do require a GRE, but it is very program independent and, from a personal opinion, the GRE is a horrible exclusionary practice. 4. Only certain college credits will apply over ten years. This is not an exclusive practice to UPX. 5. Is life not a learning experience? If you have already obtained certain knowledge, should you not be rewarded for it? How this is a complaint is unbelievable. It saves you money! I don't know of many universities that go out of their way to save you time and money for knowledge you have already learned. 6. Again, if the person can understand English, they have the right to learn. There are bad English speakers and writers at nearly ever college. 7. I'm not really sure what your expectations are, and I believe my post to your other blog covered this issue. 8. Easy is in the eye of the beholder. For you, I would recommend trying a Masters program, as you proclaim to be a God, how could a simple bachelors program challenge you? 9. Sounds like you had some bad experiences. They exist at all universities. Not all teachers are great. Not all teachers care enough. Thus is life, and should not be a reflection just on UPX, but the industry as a whole, and, I might go so far as to say they are human beings. We aren't all wonderful. 10. See previous statement. 11. There is just to much to comment on here. A degree guarantees you nothing. Plain and simply. Doesn't matter where it is from. At one job I worked at I was receiving applications for an $8 an hour job from people with Masters, Ph.D's, and law degrees. Times are tough. That's reality. 12. Many employers don't acknowledge degrees form Yale or Harvard. Neither one is accredited. Any employer worth their salt would accept nearly any and all degrees, including UPX and Yale. 13. This statement does not dignify a reply. Further, there are ways in which someone that does not have a valid H.S. diploma or GED can go to college and receive financial aid. You obviously have not spend much time researching this aspect, as it can and does happen, and there is nothing wrong with it. To you last point, yes, there have been settlements. Name a company, institution, or even our federal government and I'll bet you will find financial settlements of all kinds across all sectors of employment. They happen, especially in a business that large and that employs that many people. Should we shut down our government, the N.Y. Times, Microsoft, any college that has settlements from recruiting violations? Where would it end? There would be literally nothing left. Get off your high horse, look at issues from both sides, and check your facts before you ramble off some b.s. that other people might take as fact. Not that you should have any credibility.
"behindthescences" You're saying that neither Harvard University or Yale University is accredited? Clearly, how stupid are you? Where do you get your information from? From the C.E.O. that oversees the University of Phoenix Online? Where do you get such facts from? Where does it say that Harvard University or Yale University is unaccredited?
And no, people with masters and doctorate degrees don't apply for $8 an hour jobs.
Didn't you read "Rick from Connecticut's" report on web site "ripoffreport.com"?
Read it again.
http://www.ripoffreport.com/reports/0/457/RipOff04
And again.
http://www.ripoffreport.com/reports/0/457/RipOff04
And again.
http://www.ripoffreport.com/reports/0/457/RipOff04
For your information, a life experience doesn't earn you college credits. Is this what my program of study should've looked like:
Life Experience 101, Life Experience 102, Java Programming I, Java Programming II, Windows Networking, Unix Administration 101
In real colleges, you don't get college credits from life experiences. That is the most dumbest thing I ever heard of. In real colleges, if you feel you have the knowledge for a particular class, you can ask to take the final exam or challenge exam of that class and if you pass, you get those college credits.
What schools don't require an S.A.T. score? Where did you read that? If colleges don't require an S.A.T. score, what's the point of having the exam? The purpose of the S.A.T. is to test the students English and Math skills. A 2.0 grade point average as you state here doesn't mean anything other than the fact that the student studied at a letter-grade level of a "C." Community colleges have placement testing for new students as well so the college can get an idea of what English and Math classes to place the student in, hence the "placement" testing. You can't just enroll in a community college with a 2.0 grade point average nor will that low 2.0 get you into a 4-year college. There will always be S.A.T. college entrance examinations and community college placement testing because I've taken both examinations and I scored extremely well on the two. But, University of Phoenix doesn't believe in placement testing, they just enroll any and all.
You think a masters degree program won't be challenging for me? Well, not at the University of Phoenix Online.
And yes you do need a valid high school diploma or G.E.D. to qualify for federal financial aid because you need to enter that information on the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (F.A.F.S.A.). If you enter "no" for no highschool diploma or G.E.D, the federal government won't give you anything.
Read Nancy Krop's 45-page report about this university that operates only to enroll unqualified students.
http://kroplaw.com/uop/DOE.report.on.UOP.pdf
Read about more University of Phoenix cases on her web site.
http://kroplaw.com/uop/index.html
Watch Nancy Krop's news video on what she says about the University of Phoenix here.
http://mfile.akamai.com/12948/wmv/vod.ibsys.com/20
Nancy Krop is determined to shut down this diploma mill!