I completed my Master's degree and was very satisified with the level of education I received from UoP. I also hold two B.S degrees from traditional state institutions and have no complaints. They are what you put into them!!!! If you are lazy and do not care then you will fail. If you work hard do the readings and study you will be successful.

I have been going to UOP since December 2010. I have had some problems with the language barrier with some instructors. I have found that asking specific questions has helped me tremendously.

The first couple of blocks of classes were easy, but as the time went on the classes got harder. As with anything, school is what you make of it. If you don't put in the time and the effort, you probably won't pass!!

I have completed four blocks of classes and my classmates were very pleasant. The learning tools that I found to be most helpful to me were the Center for Writing Excellence and the mymath lab study plans.

The instructors are concerned and helpful. They are very encouraging and understanding (at least the ones that I have had). You can contact them at home if you can't get an e-mail response fast enough. The academic adviser is a little slow getting back to you, but hey you are not the only one that they help...lol.

Overall my experience has been good. I had a few problems with the curriculum and the lack of having a hard book, but that is easily worked around with research on the internet.

If you are enrolling just to get money then don't waste your time. You won't last more than a few weeks!! If you are not willing to challenge yourself to do better find another school. Hope this helps and good luck!!

Are you procrastinator like me, then UoP is not for you. Online classes are much hard than actual sit down classes. I am a procrastinator. I waited until the last minute to do any assignments, homework's, or just to discuss things on the boards. But, that's what I am good at. I do this for work and I am very successful at what I do.

I think UoP is the most expensive thing I have done in my life. They are way too expensive compared to a local school. Yes, it is convenient for me to do the online school. But, I don't feel like I really received my money's worth from the school.

I work in the IT field already, so I cannot attend UTSA which is my local college. I wish I could attend. I travel which prevents me from attending.

I can learn anything if you put a book in my face which worked out great with UoP. I didn't have a lot of teacher interaction, mostly students asking questions because the teachers are more like hall monitors and not really teachers. I'm not trying to clown on them or degrade them, but it's a online class. What can you expect from someone doing this part-time from their homes or work.

UoP is not a bad place if you want your degree. I have my 2 year degree now and I would like to go and get my 4 year degree, but I travel way too much to really stay online or attend local school.

Pro's: Easy, not hard to complete school work. Online Library. Writing Lab. Math Lab. Self-taught. Online Conveyance.

Con's: Way to expensive, self taught, interaction between other students is slim and not present with teachers unless you create a post on their boards. You are being exploited because you need the convenience of online and not a classroom.

In a summary, it's not worth the price in the end to get the paper. You would be better off just attending a local school if you could haggle the travel and whatever interferes with you sitting down.

If you can teach yourself, and you don't mind paying 50% more for online classes. Then UoP is the deal for you. This is how I think I came out after attending.

It's my dime, it's my life, it's my degree that no one can take away from me. All said in the end, I paid a higher price to get to my goal and I am happy that I did do it. You, as an individual, should have a choice. What choices have you made today? At least my sister is not the only one in the family that has a degree. Blah!

I am currently a student at UOP and I feel there are some pros and cons to the program. I am ok with the program I am in "software engineering", but there are things I would change, and I'm sure any student at any university would want to change something, so singling out this school for that would be wrong.

Since I have not graduated yet I do not want to give a full review though. But I would like to request something from those who have graduated instead of spilling out a review of paragraphs of information that barely have any relevance to the actual courses they studied.

1. Provide your program of study 2. Did you graduate 3. Did the program help you get a raise or a job. What extra efforts were needed to get the job?

I can say right now that whatever someone is focusing in, expect to spend twice that time out of school learning that stuff if expected to get a job in it. It does not matter what college you come from, they want you to actually have a decent grasp of what you are applying for. Web developer? Do you know HTML, CSS, asp.net, javascript well? The person that does will get the job before you, probably no matter what his/her GPA is.

Ok I have to start with something I notice with a lot of these reviews. In my time at UoP, a lot of people have dropped classes and dropped out of school. There are many reasons, money time, obligations and cannot hack the learning the material independently. I cannot tell you how many people I have had in learning teams that straight up should not even be there, they put in no effort, did not care much about their GPA and often drop out.

If you cannot do your work without being babysat, online school is most likely not for you. What I see is a lot of people that failed at UoP, a lot of people that would not even try to get into a conventional university and figure maybe online is going to be easy. It is not, so there is a lot of people you figure this out, lost money because they dropped out and lash out at UoP in reviews generally due to their inability to manage school and life.

So when you read a review, look and you will notice that air of failure looking to something beyond themselves as a reason.

Now that I have put most the bad reviews in perspective, I do mean most, there are some issues with UoP. The cost is pretty rough, the finance councilor I had this last section of school was completely useless and even lied to his supervisors about making contact with me. The reality is there are losers everywhere, in time management remove them and sometimes we are the lucky ones that point out their failures. Sometimes you do get a rough teacher, but that is pretty universal as well. No school is perfect.

One thing I can say about the teachers is that most of them are serious professionals in their field. When I look at the bio for everything teacher, I am impressed with their field knowledge. Think about this, a lot of University instructors do just that for work. A lot of UoP instructors are actively working in their field and can “work from home” as a part time instructor to bring in some extra money, build experience or perhaps care to share their knowledge. Either way most of these people will answer real world applications from the perspective of experience not what they read.

The coursework can be rough or easy depending on the class and what the student brings to the table. I am in my mid 30s, I went to massage school after high school and found massage therapy to be inconsistent income for my family. The “job” I have I do not enjoy and I want to make more money. I am married with 3 children under 6 and a therapeutic teenage foster daughter. I work 40+ hours a week and decided to add online school on top of that, it has been far from easy juggling it all. That is where UoP shines; if you cannot go to conventional schools because of your daily routine you will need an online school. Granted they take advantage of that by way of cost with a pretty small over head, but they can so like any business they will.

If you are thinking about the UoP, do not think it will be easy. It is not a fake glide through degree. I am in my final year with an Associate in Networking and a Bachelor in IT Security. Right now I am getting my butt kicked by this Java Programming 420 class. There is a lot of drop out and failure rate at UoP because people think it will be easy, I push myself because I want a high GPA to offset the potential stigma of an online degree. I do feel that for someone like myself busy with life and choose to get a degree it shows a level of dedication to better one’s self, work ethic and the ability to handle pressure. Do I know how the outside world will respond to the degree, no. Some may take issue with it, others will not, is my assumption. A degree is a degree and having one opens doors that will always be closed if you do not have one.