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| - So I was already working in the IT industry and found myself not advancing. Was making just enough to scrap by. Most of the jobs I wanted required some type of formal education. Looking back, I should've just studied up and gotten myself some certs. At the time college still seemed like the right thing to do as I'd never even finished my AA. UoP seemed great as I could continue my job and my life and take my classes and learn when I had the time throughout the day. This was all about 10 years ago now.
UoP you will definitely get out what you put in. If you're gonna be one of those lazy people that are not going to do the read (which there is tons so prepare yourself...), not going to participate in discussion, then cram at the last second to try and put your assignments together then you're obviously going to have a bad time.
Now, if you study and work hard and put the amount of time into it that YOU need to in order to be successful? You're going to do well and you're going to take away a fairly decent education in your field of choice.
The bad part is UoP tells you that you can be anything. Never even touched a computer? You can take our IT courses and be an IT genius! Never even as much studied anatomy and haven't had any previous interest? You can be a medical professional just by taking our classes! I saw a lot of this in the IT ISS program. Folks that really wanted to be in the IT field but had no experience or background in it whatsoever.
If you DO have background in the chosen field you're majoring in and you devote yourself to it and put in the required time, research, and willingness to learn then you will succeed. I just did not see many folks in any of my classes that were very motivated. It was easy to pick them out as they were typically the most productive in discussion, really fleshing out the questions with well crafted responses and interacting with others in the class.
Team projects. This was hit or miss. Typically we'd get assignments and we'd have a team project and at that time each person on the team would be assigned a portion. I learned very early on to identify which members of my team were active and seemed to take an interest in this system and we'd just complete the entire project ourselves. This is good and bad. It's good for the folks that actually care about their grades and their education. It's bad for the folks that are lazy as they'd skirt by on a team project grade that they literally did not participate in. Sure, you can tell your instructors but it's rare they care or respond.
I think UoP was far too lenient in their grading. I made all A's, a few B's and C's in math. Now I put in a ton of effort into my classes. I saw folks that would do the absolute minimum and receive passing grades. Some instructors just did not seem to really care and would never respond to you no matter what. It was all very hit of miss.
I graduated with my 4 year degree back in 2013 or so. I definitely don't regret it but in retrospect I should've went to another university or waited a few years as more online universities have come around and even traditional brick-and-mortar universities are going online with classes. I think UoP got a bad wrap early on and some of it was totally justifiable, but now that online learning is so much more prevalent, why are they still chastised so badly? I think part of the problem is you get out of UoP what you put into it. You hit a lot of folks that joined thinking it was going to be easy street to a degree and a new job and it was not. Others have legitimate complaints against the university.
I rate it 3 but wish I could 2.5 it so it's right in the middle. Be very cautious with this university and so your research. Try to weed out those that seem angry without justifiable reasons. Be prepared to read a ton, be self motivated, and to not count on your team members for projects. And when it's all said and done, if you took out loans you're gonna pay them back whether you finish or not so why not do your best while you're enrolled?
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