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Does anyone (who went there) have an opinion on the University of Phoenix or The Open University?

EDIT: Woah, look at this link http://www.ripoffreport.com/Search/Company/University-Of-Pho... - so many complaints. I really wonder what is going on here. Is there any online university that is not a ripoff?

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Although one must expect at least a handful of complaints any time a company has 100s of 1000s of customers (oops, I meant 'students'), the type of abuse that is likely to occur when recruiters are pressured to meet quotas can be seen at Consumer Affairs:

http://consumeraffairs.com/education/phoenix.html

http://www.aduni.org/ - sadly only lasted one year.

Sad! Why was this stopped after one year?

You'd have to know the story of ArsDigita to understand why. Here's Philip Greenspun's side of the story: http://waxy.org/random/arsdigita/

Thank you!

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