I was discussing with a friend of mine from the US about online colleges, and he told me he had attended Devry online and University of Phoenix too. I asked which he thought was the best and why. He told me Devry was the better of the two.
Here is his reasons and explanation of why:
Devry was really well set up for the classes that you had to take. You are not left out on your own to have to figure out how to understand the software that they use for your classes either. They have really knowledgeable tech support open 24/7, and they can answer even the dumbest questions with patience. He said he asked them some really dumb questions just to see what they would tell him and how they would react. He was happy to say they reacted professionally and with great ease of explanation. It wasn't like they were reading a script to tell you how to use the software. It was more like they had used it and had been taught all the ins and outs of the software.
Devry uses a forum system for posting to classes for part of your required work and it's easy to understand how to work it. They also have live lectures which can be downloaded if you are not able to attend at the time they are given. The instructors or professors are usually people who are still working in the fields you are training for, and their knowledge is first hand as well as what they have for written material. He really enjoyed his experience with Devry.
University of Phoenix: I really hate to say what he said about U of P. He hated the system there and was so unhappy with what he was being told in real life from employers about them that he quit taking classes just a small ways into his second class. He had attended a traditional college when he was younger, but now he has a job and is unable to attend classes like that with his schedule. Everything was great listening to their pitch about attending online college and attending his first class Orientation. That class went well because it was all new students and they would still work together with strangers. With his prior credits that they transferred it placed him in his junior year of a 4 year degree for his next class. He said the students in that class had been in class together for well over a year, and they excluded strange people. U of P uses a team system to do classes and if you are excluded you won't get points for participation. He would ask them for the part he could work on and they wouldn't even act like he was around. He talked to the advisor and was told oh it will get better. Hard to get better when you are failing because they won't include you is what he told me. The only thing they had that was really good according to him was their online library database.
University of Phoenix doesn't have a great reputation with a lot of employers either. One business owner said they had rather take someone off the street and train them because they had to retrain the ones from University of Phoenix any way.
Based on his talk with me I wouldn't want to attend University of Phoenix.
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