I was very fortunate to have the opportunity to find UOP for my doctorate program. The staff from the school were professional, my committee members were great and my mentor was outstanding. All students in the doctorate program must have a masters and be part of an organization that fits thier displine.

I completed my program in three years which is quite an accomplishiment considering how rigurous the program. All instructors have doctorate degrees and are working in the industry. It should be said that in order to be successful, a student needs to be self motivated and an overachiever.

I'm in my 3rd and final doctoral years with UoP in management. My GPA is 3.99 and never missed any class schedule nor submitted any late assignements. I led team projects that gets A's. My Bachelor was from a UK university and MS from New York State.

I don't have any problem instructor, except two. One was in the 3rd year residency and he gave no one any A; I got A-. The other case was with my first mentor in our first class, DOC/722. He barely show up because his son suffered a serious automobile injury.

UoP academic counsellor and financial representative offered me another mentor and offered me a refund of the class. I did not ask for such good services; they volunteer it.

My current mentor is from a very good business school. He is rating me excellent in all the weeks. My other committe member has a double PhD from Penn State. They are all very professional. I do not have problems so far with UoP.

Before I got this new mentor, I skipped another mentor with a EdD from Harvard; she has a lot of air but she said she will take me in as mentee.

In short, you get out of life what you put in. Most complaints in this forum already tell me the complainers were first in default and UoP upheld its principle and axed them nicely. If you don't do your job, you get fired. If you don't do your assignments well, you get Ds. What on earth is that so difficult to understand?

Quality of professors: outstanding with the exception of two people.

Quality of instruction/course content: outstanding with current relevancy for business applications

You must be dedicated and self-motivated for this program. It is very demanding with high attrition. The instructors have high expectations when you are at this level, especially with your writing. But in the end, when you get hooded, you realize all the pain was worth it.