Is University of Phoenix Online a legitimate college?

University of Phoenix, although accredited, is ridiculously expensive due to it being a For-profit University. This place admits just about any student with a High School Diploma and willingness to pay the tuition. I know somebody that went that route for one semester before being clued in. She said, "If I wanted to cheat, I could, because exams are not proctored or timed; I could look every answer up in the book if I wanted to and I'd get an A in every class, but essentially learn nothing." Employers know this too, which is why many look down upon Online Colleges; oftentimes if an employer sees University of Phoenix listed as the Degree Granting Institution, he/she will immediately shred the application!

If you must take classes online to receive your education, do so with a Brick and Mortar University that offers classes online. These universities make sure that their students are not cheating on their exam by making them take Proctored Exams on campus, and when a student turns in a paper, the professor will run checks to make sure it has not just been plagiarized. Online Classes through these universities are respected due to the measures that are put in place to ensure the student actually does the work.

UP is legitimate to the extent that it is a real company that offers actual educational classes. If you pay the (very expensive) fees they will make a genuine attempt to educate you.

On the other hand, the value of "degrees" from such online for-profit "universities" is very much open to question. Few employers take such degrees seriously. In general, such schools wildly over-inflate the success of their graduates at actually landing jobs. If part-way through a program you change your mind, you'll find that no traditional brick-and-mortar colleges will accept classes from these schools for credit. So you'll end up having to start all over again from scratch.

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UP is NOT a "diploma mill." True diploma mills are ones that either (A) just hand you a "degree" in return for money, or (B) give you lame, bogus online classes. UP falls under neither of these categories. But that isn't saying much for UP.

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