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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have a job that involves me writing down where a variety of fairly successful (and, in some cases, very successful) people in non-STEM jobs earned their degrees.

In the past year, [b]three people reported having degrees from the University of Arizona, two had degrees from Arizona State, and five had degrees from the University of Phoenix.[/b]

Obviously, the University of Arizona and Arizona State have a better reputation. The fact that the University of Phoenix is coming on strong may have more to do with people needing to fill resume slots than educational quality.

But it's interesting to see that, based purely on alumni career progress, the University of Phoenix seems to be on the rise. [/quote]

And who are these people?

And for full disclosure, what if your role with the Univer$ity of Phoenix?[/quote]

I’m the OP. I have nothing to do with the University of Phoenix. This is just a funny, news-of-the-weird thing that I started to notice.

I personally know an intelligent, college-educated person who got an UoP MBA because she actually wanted that kind of knowledge. I don’t know her well and don’t know what she thought about the classes

I assume that, in most cases, this is really a credentialism thing. People who have no real need for a degree may get a degree from UoP just to meet a meaningless requirement. But the hilarious irony is that, by selling what could be weak degrees to those people, UoP is developing a respectable-looking group of alumni.

As for the UoP alumni, here are a few I just looked up (and aren’t ones I noticed in connection with my work):

Vela, a school district administrator - https://www.montereycoe.org/about/contact/cabinet/

A chief nursing officer - https://www.conehealth.com/news/news-search/2022-news-releases/antrum-named-chief-nursing-officer/

The CEO of a health care provider organization - https://www.wmcarey.edu/news/2022-05-11/dr-geroldean-dyses-family-establishes-wcu-scholarship

A school district CFO - https://www.episd.org/site/default.aspx?PageType=3&DomainID=76&ModuleInstanceID=101&ViewID=6446EE88-D30C-497E-9316-3F8874B3E108&RenderLoc=0&FlexDataID=47384&PageID=145

McElmurray, a health care executive - https://healthcareexecutive.org/archives/may-june-2022/executive-news

I also found many articles about the UoP president resigning a couple of days ago, so, there are obvious issues, but the alumni I’ve noticed in connection with my job were in different, probably higher-paid types of jobs.

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