https://encyclopediadramatica.se/University_of_Phoenix

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Very prestigious.University of Phoenix is a fictional online university brought to you by the innovative minds serving the failure community with inventions such as ITT Tech, Kaplan University, and The Jew Center For Kids Who Can't Read Good And Who Wanna Learn To Do Other Stuff Good Too.

Providing convenient online courses to basement-dwellers in combination with a wide variety of useless academic degrees, University of Phoenix has established a reputation as a reliable paper mill for keyboard warriors that already have an associate of arts degree in their inventories, are unable to leave their parents' homes to attend a mockery of a campus, or looking to pad the résumé to cheat their way into gainful employment. When they do finish it, their final diploma is equivalent to Ron Paul's nomination.

Seems like a lot of the same condescending, elitist stereotypes we saw applied to non-traditional schools a few years ago. Now they have run most of those out of business they are sniping at the for-profits.

UoP makes like a gazillion dollars a year providing a product that apparently is in demand. The mainstream schools arrogantly flushed an entire market segment. A lot of people who otherwise would be excluded from the higher ed thing have found a good fit at UoP. How is UoP evil just for being clever enough to thrive on the establishment's leftovers?

(01-02-2013, 08:24 AM)Albert Hidel Wrote: Seems like a lot of the same condescending, elitist stereotypes we saw applied to non-traditional schools a few years ago. Now they have run most of those out of business they are sniping at the for-profits.

UoP makes like a gazillion dollars a year providing a product that apparently is in demand. The mainstream schools arrogantly flushed an entire market segment. A lot of people who otherwise would be excluded from the higher ed thing have found a good fit at UoP. How is UoP evil just for being clever enough to thrive on the establishment's leftovers?

I do not think you that Encyclopedia Dramatica is intended to be taken seriously. Its really created for the purpose of bashing Wikipedia.

Their article on ITT Technical Institute was even more brutal.

As I recall, Warren National and University of Phoenix had a strong rivalry. U of P students were always quick to cite the accredition status of their school.