The University of Arizona Global Campus Reviews

Some classes at UAGC, because they’re online, are difficult. Sometimes, the instructions weren't super clear. But overall, it’s positive, but it's varying levels of positive.

The quality of the professors, I'll say B minus.

The learning experience was good and challenging. Challenging just because you have the outside elements and the discipline of managing your own schedule, and trying to make sure you get working on the due dates. But it was challenging, just as it should be for a college experience.

And what contributed to my success was their flexibility. I gotta travel for work. So, you can take breaks in between classes if you need to. And it really caters more to a working adult life. But that’s also what contributed to the many years it took for me to finish my program. And as challenging as it was, the flexibility of the schedule between classes really made a difference.

Enrollment was easy, and the learning experience was very new and easy. I’d like to thank them for allowing me to earn my bachelor’s degree. That was well-appreciated. I would recommend to anyone who’s trying to upstart a career that’s working and has a livelihood going on. It’s amazing because they work, and you wanna go to school.

Enrollment was pretty straightforward. I went online, selected my major, and then I just filled out the letter of credit for the class, sent it off, and I was on board. It’s been great. No problem. I get my work done on time and everything seems to be going pretty smooth. The advisor is there to help me whenever I need and the textbooks are straightforward, and simple to obtain. I don't have any complaints.

One of my biggest takeaways is how easy the transition was from UAGC to Purdue Global and the functionality of the discussion boards, the access to the material, the library, my advisor. Reaching out to my advisor is easy. Nothing's really been difficult.

My experience was quick and easy. There were no issues with the enrollment process. It doesn’t cost anything for military members, though I can’t speak for non-military students, but I would say everyone is extremely friendly and kind. They listen and they’re very efficient in getting the enrollment process started, making sure I can get enrolled quickly.

I worked with them for my bachelor’s degree and I’m about to finish my master’s. Throughout, I’ve never had issues with any advisers, financial, academic, or enrollment. They’re all extremely pleasant. I know most by name, including my enrollment adviser, Courtney, whose professionalism and calm, genuine demeanor stand out.

Online schooling is difficult, not because of the school, but because balancing one class at a time with a full-time job and being a full-time parent is challenging. It takes a lot of commitment.

After completing the paperwork. I found the process was a bit challenging at first. But after a while, it was fine and pretty easy. I just tried to get the courses on track with what I needed to do, and forwarded the paperwork to our administration department to get the tuition reimbursement completed.

The learning experience was great. The instructions were very detailed because everything was strictly online. It was the way the instructors provided their requirements, what they expected out of you, and how to get to each of the courses was self-explanatory and very easy. The instructors were great. I liked it.

I wanted to pursue getting my master’s and I reached out five different times, left messages, and never received a response. I would have been done already. I was disappointed in that. My employer does reimburse for the master’s program. I was like, that’s fine. That was basically my biggest takeaway.

I’ve said several times to my colleagues to not hesitate to enroll at The University of Arizona Global Campus, and they've done it.

Enrollment was very simple. The learning experience was great, but It was very expensive. It was a six-week class. I took 12 courses, six weeks, and it took me about a year and a half. It was pretty quick, but the work was pretty extensive. I had to type like four-page papers each week. I forget what my major project was, but we all had a major project at the end of each class.

The professors were all great. Helpful and very responsive as well. I learned a lot from UAGC. It was just a new experience for me, but I learned. I wish that I would be able to go to Arizona instead of doing it online, but it was a great opportunity.

I enjoyed the school. During my bachelor’s program, I didn’t receive as much information as I did in my master’s program, which may have been due to the advisor I had. My master’s advisor had been there for years and was very knowledgeable. During that time, I was diagnosed with ADHD and bipolar disorder, and she was very helpful at getting me the information about that.

Before that, I had already been diagnosed with severe anxiety and depression. My previous advisors didn’t provide information about available support, so I would take breaks when I needed time to manage everything. I didn’t realize there was an accommodations program where I could get extensions or extra time if needed.

I was able to find that information later, but it would have helped sooner. I ended up failing a class and had to take a two-month break for my mental health because I wasn’t turning in my papers on time. I’d definitely suggest they do a better job of sharing available resources and letting students know what support is out there.

I know they have many contracts with employers in the military. If we qualify for it that year, we can take as many classes as we want. It benefited me during my bachelor’s program, I was able to take back-to-back classes and finish in under a year. I’d definitely share that experience.

The class availability was great, and the fact that they provided the books was even better. I didn’t have to pay out of pocket. I’d also recommend it for the resources they provide, like access to Grammarly and Microsoft.

Even after you leave, they offer a career coach, which I believe is available for a lifetime. I’ve been unemployed, so I’ve been reaching out, and the advisor has been helping me with my resume.

My recent experience with them was great, but I think it was more on the third-party people that were facilitating the enrollment between Southwest Gas Corporation and University of Arizona Global Campus. It’s great now because they changed the vendor. Before that, it was a worse experience. It was awful.

The is most recent experience was 100% better than the first. Actually, looking at the courses and finding classes, that was all a good experience.

My learning experience has been good too. Once you learn the format, it's great. Working through Canvas, the materials, the ease of getting in and maneuvering. It's more of a learning process, but once you learn, it was great.

The professors are awesome. They're very accommodating, very helpful, and very understanding about people like myself that are in a career, trying to get an education and meeting deadlines. Being able to work with U of A has been good.

I wish I knew their names, but a lot of the instructors were awesome, which I think they make the program. That was good. Recently, my last five classes now charge for – they pay for tuition. The way it was advertised in the beginning, it was a full grant. Now we have to pay for materials. I think it's $300 or $600. Better than $2200, but that was just a little different. It does add up. Now I have a $3,000 bill I need to pay.

I felt like I was mostly on my own because I couldn’t really get the help I needed. It wasn’t like a Zoom class where you learn with someone. I had to learn on my own. It was convenient being able to do it from home, but it was hard.

Honestly, just because it’s at home doesn’t mean it’s good. I would rather be in a class setting, like on a Zoom call where you can see the teacher. I feel like some of the teachers just aren’t there to help.

I had teachers who failed me and wouldn’t let me make up work, even with a doctor’s note. I told them I wasn’t feeling well and was at the doctor and asked if I could make up the missed class. They said no, that it was already closed and they couldn’t do anything. I’ve failed classes because some teachers were that strict.

My professors were terrible. They would never offer any help or if you had problems with an assignment, they pretty much told you, “Oh, well.” If you turned in assignments late due to stuff being down on the website, they were not accommodating. I had to pay extra fees to graduate. I feel like that should have been covered under my tuition and fees instead of me having to pay out of my pocket.

Even after I graduated and received my diploma, I still have never received a job for what my degree was for. I received no help from the university. All they told me was just to sign up for a Handshake app, but half the jobs on there are bogus, like they want you to do selling or marketing. They have some legit jobs but they’re all across the country.

The enrollment process was straightforward. I got my transcript ordered and I got in easily. The only hiccup with the whole process was the Air Force, before you can use tuition assistance, they need you to send a degree plan. It took the school a while to be able to get a certified degree plan out to them. I ended up having to miss a semester because of that.

The course was online. They provide the military with all the books and materials for free. I'm going in as a person who knew the bare minimum about computers and I feel pretty comfortable with my IT degree now that I can probably go work in IT if I want to.

Majority of the professors are above average and there teachers who get to work and then just leave. This was my first college experience. The course load was great. Once I got to my major courses, the workload started to pick up. I was learning something I've never done before. But as far as the course load itself, I feel like it was well-managed. I didn't know much about computers going in, so it was just enough work, just enough time for me to figure things out.

It was overwhelming trying to learn how to computer program when I never knew about it before. At those points, I wish I had an in-class teacher where I could have gotten a little more one-on-one. I could have reached out to the instructors, but I'm not that type of person. I try to do it on my own. I reach out to my professors for them to specify what they wanted for different work and they always reach back out.

I've told multiple people that I love my experience at The University of Arizona Global Campus. Especially with time constraints in the military, I always recommend it.

I knew I was going to be retiring from work probably in 2024. If I was going to do anything, I needed to do it soon. I enrolled at Ashford in 2017. The enrollment process was very simple. In high school, I had Cs and Bs. I also turned down a sports scholarship to San Jose State. I had all those challenges. I thought, “I'll try to go for a Bachelor's degree in Business and see how it goes. And if I could muscle through it, that'll be good.”

I enrolled and everything went fine including the application process. There were always student advisers and help whenever I needed. I adjusted. I'm really good at time management. It took me longer to do things than a normal person because when I started, I was 78 years old and visually impaired. Luckily, the state of Oregon furnished me with a lot of software for my computer. Ashford made sure that I had all the tools that I needed. Most of my textbooks were audiobooks. I had a lot of help there. I made the dean's list, which surprised the heck out of me. I graduated with honors and was invited to several honor societies.

I went down to San Diego for the commencement. One of my instructors asked, “What are you gonna do now?” I said, “I'm done. I enjoyed my experience.” She said, “Knowing your grades and stuff, you should maybe pursue something else.” I said I would try. I applied for the master's program and I was accepted. I started my Master's course in Organizational Management. After about a month or so, I enjoyed that so much that I also went for a second master's at the same time.

I graduated in 2024 with a Master's in Organizational Management and a Master's in Human Resource Management. Again, the question came out. “What are you gonna do now? You really should take a look at a doctorate program.” I said this was enough. At my age, I was done. I wish I had started 20 years sooner because with all the tools that Ashford and UA gave me and the internet, it was a very good experience.

While I was in my bachelor's program, I was also asked to be in CHAMPS. That’s the program where if undergrads have problems, they call one of the CHAMP Mentors. The students I had interactions with didn't pay attention to time management and where to find stuff on the website. That was the reason they were having problems the first two or three weeks. The website was great. Whenever you need help, you go there and you can find help. There's just so much help available in the writing center.

I only had one negative experience and that was with an instructor. That instructor was not there to help the students. In my time at Ashford, I formed some really nice friendships. We had a study group and several of the people in my study group were also in the master's program. They had the same opinion of this instructor. We didn't feel that the instructor was there to do his job. That aside, I would fully recommend students to consider distance learning.

The professors during the bachelor's program were amazingly helpful and the real-life experience they brought as working professionals was fantastic. They were very understanding if something came up, and anytime I needed help or clarity on an assignment, I never had to wait long to hear back. That’s exactly what you need when you're working full-time. They’re cooperative and understanding. They get that life happens, and they’ll work with you to make sure you’re successful with the academics and the cost and everything. I’ve recommended the school to friends and family, and I even have a friend looking into it right now. I always enjoyed their advisors, too.

However, once I started thinking about a master’s degree and went forward with that, it just didn't quite click the way I needed it to. For that one course I did try to take, I felt like things were a little too condensed and rushed. It wasn't really my style. I didn't see a good connection between what was being taught by the professor or the lectures and the actual assignments. It seemed like the assignments had nothing to do with what was in the readings or the lecture.

That could’ve just been where I was at the time with different life changes. I think I was just ready for something different at this point in my life. But for the bachelor's program, it really was great and all the resources were fantastic.

In my last course, I wrote the capstone essay exactly as the directions stated, using another capstone as a guide. When I turned it in, I was told a few things were wrong, so I took the extended version to make improvements. The thing is, every improvement I made, the professor said was a problem and wanted me to go back to how it was before. For a paper about your own experience, you use the word "I," even though you wouldn't in a usual paper. I changed it to passive language, like saying "The survey was then collected" instead of "I then collected a survey" and then she said the language was passive. I told her she’d already told me not to use "I." She had a problem with it and eventually told me not to post on the classroom board anymore and to just email her instead.

Well, because I wasn't posting on the board, I got flagged by the Registrar saying I was no longer enrolled because I failed to come to class. They withdrew me, even though I was emailing her like she said. I had to talk to the dean and show him the email where she told me not to post anymore. They got me back in class since it wasn't my fault, and the dean told me to just continue posting.

Long story short, a couple of months after I finished the class, I got a call saying I owed thousands of dollars because I withdrew from a class. I never withdrew. If they sent the money back to Financial Aid and now they’re saying I owe it, that’s on them. I’m pretty sure Financial Aid sent that money after they put me back in class, so why are they saying I owe money now? This is their own professor not understanding how things work. Don’t tell me to email you if you know we have to post to the board.

They’re still demanding this money, and now I have a useless degree because I can’t get my transcripts. I’m working on making $14 an hour when I have a master’s in public health that I can’t do anything with. Telling me to do the expensive version was just a way to keep me around for another class I shouldn't have had to take. They had me go in a circle just to end up with my original paper.

I’ve tried calling to speak to someone higher up, and they just say someone will call me back. I tried the online portal to chat with an assistant, but there was no way to do it, all I can do is call. I tried reaching back out to the person who first told me about the bill, but she didn’t call back and I just reached her voicemail. I’ve noticed that if I call and act like a new student, they’ll help me, but the second I tell them what the problem is, it’s always, “Someone will call you back.”

Overall, it’s not a bad experience going to UAGC. There’s a lot of compressed information at one fast period of time. They provide me with the resources, like books and sites. I get to understand it. I feel like I’m still getting an education, but I think it’s less compared to being in an actual class. I don't think I could get that great of a learning experience when it’s all solely online. I need to be fully immersed into the course and see how the instructor teaches. But with it being online, and I’m always in and out of the country, it’s more convenient.

A lot of the programs are a little bit behind the times on what is happening in the world today. There are some opportunities to have the programs updated for real practical knowledge instead of more academic knowledge. For instance, when we had to figure out the stock offering prices, and they made you work out the math, you had to work it out on your calculator and know the equation but that's not what happens in the world today.

You have all these perspectives that you get on stock, so a better exercise would have been giving us five perspectives and then have us review which one would be most advantageous and why, instead of doing something that no one would do nowadays. They’re archaic in their way of thinking and their methodology of how they go about doing things. The quality of the professors was a mix. Some of them were quite good and readily available to help, while others were not the same.

I've posted about the program on another platform and talked about the opportunity that my employer and the college gave me to make my dreams come true, because I never thought I'd finish up my master's. You're never too old to follow through on your goals.

I like condensed schedules. That way, I could get through my degree. Classes weren’t bad. The workload was what I expected. I ended up taking a couple of breaks. But it took me 10 years to get my bachelor’s. If I were to ever go back to school to pursue my masters, I’d probably end up going through them.

Once I decided to sign up and go for it, I was guided the whole way through. Of course, school comes with a lot of work and dedication. It’s definitely different to do it online than in person. But there was a lot of support and tutoring. There was always a way to reach out for help if I needed to. I had good experiences with my professors. They were all pretty flexible and the amount of work and the dedication that they put into it was comparable to an in-person class.

I know I went through a rough time during that period and I had to stop taking classes for a couple of periods of time. And they were all very flexible with me. So, I’m very grateful that I had the opportunity to go ahead and further my education. The flexibility that University of Arizona has and then how fast-paced it is, it was pretty amazing. I would highly recommend it to anybody. I started the program with a couple of my coworkers, and we all had the same experience.

It took me about three years to complete my degree. I didn’t attend the graduation ceremony because there was a charge and I didn’t have the fee. Also, since I’m located in Texas and it was in California, I wasn’t able to fly out.

Every employer was looking for applicants that had between 1-5 years of experience. I had zero years of experience. I was crushed and embarrassed with each failed attempt at getting a job. I’m now having to start over at 39 years old. I’ll be 40 this year. I’ll have to enter myself back into college and it’s a scary process because I don’t want more years of disappointment and wasted time. I am however grateful that I know what to look for in schools now and that is one that includes internships and attend a college that sets up internships.

What Ashford did to me was predatory. They wasted my time, they set me on a downward spiral and affected my mental and physical health. I will never forget what Ashford University did to me. I will never forget the embarrassment that I endured each time I eagerly applied for a job not knowing that the employer was going to say no and that I needed more than a degree. I hope the prospective students dig deeper into Ashford and every other schools background and check with your state about employment requirements before committing to college. If I’d known what I know now I would never have applied to Ashford University.