Is the University of Phoenix Online a legitimate degree?
Legitimate? Yes. Respectable? No. The school is accredited. However, it is a For Profit Corporation that costs a lot more than respectable public universities. The school was fined a record $9.8MM last year for sleazy recruiting practices and is currently under investigation for padding their placement numbers. Employers do not respect people with degrees from the school for two reasons. The first is that the school accepts nearly everyone. The lack of standards makes it hard for people to know what they are getting. The second is that it is felt that the classes taught there are light on the material. Companies like Intel have recently decided that they will not pay for employees to take classes there because they lack rigor.