Answered by DaveInSeoul
Axia College is the University of Phoenix's equivilant of a community college. They were talking about bringing this portion of the college out some time ago, and my guess it that it has been out now for a few months. The purpuse of Axia is to provide a flexible, on-line way of easing people back into the educational process and providing non-traditional learners with the opportunity to go back to college. The degrees are fully accredited associate degrees and will prepare people for more specialized jobs or allow them to go on to a four year college. Then UoP picks them up for the last two years of there undergrad program or their graduate program, if they so choose. Why did the break off Axia from the main Phoenix program? In was, in part, because of some of the bad press they got from 1) some of their past business practices , 2) from a WHOLE lot of people who tried to go to college on line, weren't ready for it, and then had to drop out for one reason or another. Then, rather than be reflective and try and figure out why they failed, these people blame the university for their failures and start posting whiny posts on www.uopsucks.com or www.rate-it-all.com. Go there, read the whiny posts if you want, but please put it in perspective. After receiving a traditional 'brick and mortar (BM)' Bachelor's degree and two more BM Master's from traditional universities, I enrolled in UoP's MSCIS program in 2003. I finished in 2005, and I would judge the quality of the program on par with the Master's degrees that I got in more traditional 'brick and mortar' programs. In fact, the quality of professors at UoP was WAY higher than a lot of the crappy professors I was forced to sit through during my BM undergraduate days. Oh, BTW, less that six months after I graduated I accepted a job which gave me a $30,000 per year increase over what I had been doing. I was told after I was hired that I would NOT have been hired if I did not have the Master's degree from UoP.