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university of phoenix (and any other private college offering associate degrees like devry, heald, et cetera) is likely much more expensive than attending your local community college and the degree you get at the university of phoenix will not carry any extra weight nor is your education likely to be any better. i suggest you check into community college to get an associate degree. if you want to transfer to a four year college be sure to get academic advising so you meet the admissions requirements for a four year university. don’t be take in by slick advertising!
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UOP has a bad reputation (because, in largest measure, of its checkered past which some people just refuse to forget), even though it’s regionally accredited and should, therefore, be as credible as any other accredited school. It’s sad, really. Some think it’s a diploma mill, even though that could not be further from the truth. There’s just no good and/or valid reason for an ignorant HR person who has heard rumors about UOP, but hasn’t bothered to learn the real facts, should toss someone’s resume into the trash because his/her degree is from UOP. Yet they do it all the time.

All that said, I HAVE had some clients go to UOP; then go to, say, for example, a Californiat State University school… and they told me that UOP was much easier… easier to just skate through. So, maybe UOP really is marginal.

All things considered, I would just try to avoid it if at all possible.

If you don’t get a degree from UOP, it won’t be on your resume, so it can’t hurt you. In other words, if all you do is accumulate 60 hours at UOP and then transfer them into a BA or BS somewhere else, then only the BA or BS will be on your resume… so UOP, in that case, can’t hurt you.

However, if you get the associates at UOP, then ask a BA or BS program to count that as your first two (freshman and sophomore) years therein, then it’s more likely that the time at UOP will come out somehow. It would suck to have an associates that you can’t even put on your resume, don’t you think?

As far as other schools with online programs, you can’t throw a rock any more without hitting one. They’re everywhere. It has become easier, these days, to ask which schools DON’T have online programs!

If money is an issue, then let me recommend…

Peru State College
P.O. Box 10
Peru, NE 68421
United States
Phone: (402) 872-2239
Fax: (402) 872-2375
Web: http://www.peru.edu

…as an excellent place from which to obtain one’s first two years of undergrad study online.

But it’s just one option. There are MANY.

This Google search should at least help:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&num=50&newwindow=1&q=%2B%22associates+degree%22+OR+aa+OR+as+OR+%22a.a.%22+OR+%22a.s.%22+%2B%22distance+learning%22+OR+%22distance+education%22+OR+online+site%3A.edu&aq=o&oq=&aqi=

Just make sure that any online program you consider is ACCREDITED by an agency approved by the US Department of Education (USDE) and/or the Council for Higher Education Accreditation (CHEA); and that you LOOK-UP any school you’re considering in one or both of their databases at:

http://www.chea.org/search

http://ope.ed.gov/accreditation

All diploma mills, and even some legitimate schools, LIE about (or at least embellish or mislead regarding) their accreditation. Diploma mills even make-up fake accreditors, and then claim to be accredited. Religious schools will sometimes claim that they HAVE to have their own accreditors because they don’t want to have some government agency tell them what they can teach. DON’T BELIEVE A WORD OF IT! NOT A WORD!!!!!

Always, always, always look-up any school in which you’re interested — be it online, or otherwise — in one or both of those databases. If it’s not in either one, then it is NOT accredited, and you should STAY AWAY.

Hope that helps.
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