University of Phoenix

[Duneranger]

Personally I wouldn't want a degree from U of P. Their reputation is awful and many people in a variety of industries look down at their degrees. Free is great, but at what cost to your personal reputation? They've been trying to sell themselves to a state school for a long time. They're running out of $$$$.

Plenty of other people here promote dubious and for-profit schools. While I would not go to U of P, I know many people who have over a couple of decades and the education seemed fine. Just like any of the many generic online MBA programs out there.

Its RA accredited, that's all that matters.

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Hold your horses, you can take classes at U of Phoenix and transfer to HAU.  If you can get the MBA as a freebie or any other degrees close to free from work such as the MS Info System or something else, do what you can and want.  You can transfer a few classes to HAU or another institution to speed up the finish and get the other fully paid for (or close to free) degrees from U of Phoenix.  Furthermore, you can take the ASU 15 grad credits for $500 or so (if that has fully integrated and process of getting transcripts is possible).

Why transfer to HAU? At least people have heard of UofP

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https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2024/m...sity-of-p/

The deal wasn't completed on time according to their contract. Then it was extended until June 2025.

https://www.kivitv.com/news/university-o...x-extended

I would run from U of P. They still haven't cleaned up their act. They had to pay $191 million in fines for their crummy advertising just a few years ago.

I would agree they had some deceptive marketing to attract less intelligent people who had no business in college but I have seen their curriculum for their MBA program. It's no different than any of the million online MBA programs out there. Unless you are going to some T20 program, a MBA is just checking the box

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An agreement was announced in 2023 by which the University of Phoenix would be sold to the University of Idaho. Although the announcement didn't include any change of name, there might be a rebrand in its future, like other for-profits that have sold to and become affiliates of brick-and-mortar state university systems (Kaplan becoming Purdue Global, Ashford becoming University of Arizona Global Campus, Grantham becoming University of Arkansas Grantham).

However, there's been strong pushback against the proposed acquisition in the Idaho legislature, and the acquisition might not even occur.

Its odd that sketchy schools like Kaplan/Ashford/Brandman got the greenlight to become PGU/UAGC etc but Phoenix is a bridge too far lol