Axia College
Reviews and Complaints

I enrolled in 2007 for business and health admin I was discharged from school for having surgery that I couldn't help and they wouldn't not let me finish . I have had my tax money take every year for the past 9 years my husband filled a dorm to get it back each year that cost us over a hundred dollars and time that it takes to get back . I have no degree can't go to any school almost 40 no job skill and I payed payments to keep interest down on a federal loan I didn't sign for Pell Only is what I agreed to do I have had over 14000$ in debt and can't go to school to make money
They really screwed me and this year they took 5689$ of our tax money and we give up because I couldn't afford to pay to get it back
I want to be apart of a lawsuit against them just like everyone else . My life has been ruined andy credit also . No permission to do all this toe and I never saw one red cent of whatever money they received all was online my books and work
I had to pay my own computer, printer, internet And they got everything . I'm Livid with them also I asked to see my transcript of course what I got was blacked out due to they needed to protect themselves from being sued I was told and the date my last loan was taken out they had already dropped me from school so how can we make them pay for all of our time, money, and no degree? !

I've been through hell because I started Axia back in 2005. My tax returns are still bein taken 12 year's later when all was going to be covered by financial aid... no credits transferred, charged for classes when I filed for a temporary medical leave. And I have student loan's because of them I never knew I applied for. Despite the fact that I'm sick of my life and credit being destroyed because of this stupid place it's still happening to all these other people still to this day. Someone please tell me how the F*** they're getting away with this? I've decided to higher a lawyer, get these loan's discharged and my money refunded. I'll sue for every single thing I can because they have destroyed my life with this the last 12 year's! There's a more detailed message I sent in the photo's attached.

I enrolled in Axia College in February of 2008. The academic counselor told me that the courses were going to be paid for by loans that would not be owed for at least 10 years after my graduation. I have had a myriad of instructors that were marginal and experienced a severe lack of follow up by my financial and academic counselors. Currently I am taking a class and the instructor makes comments in the discussion that are completely incongruent to the answer posted. In one class, the instructor began rambling on about Christ saving the child molesters and that society is bad for judging people because that is God's job. BTW, this was not a religion class.

The lenders who issue the student loans need to be enlightened about the fraud this school is perpetrating on society. I am going to ask to be transferred to a land campus for the remainder of my classes. Also they keep raising the tuition, so this year my classes cost almost as much as a "good school." I want to find a way to get the word out that the online version of University of Phoenix is nothing but a flashy advertising campaign and must be stopped. I am also going to talk with the lenders and FAFSA because our tax dollars should not spent insuring loans from such a horrible school.

I simply cannot understand why anyone could be proud of this learning institution. Prior to enrolling, I made it clear to the enrollment counselor that I was on Social Security disability for a mental illness. I was never told of any ADA accomodation, I was never explained the cost of tuition, never received my student award letter, and was rushed into starting earlier than I wanted to by the rhetorical 'scare tactic.'

I was never sent a catalog, which the University of Phoenix website specifically states is due the student. I told all but one of my four instructors about my illness because I felt they had a right to know. The instructor that did not know I was disabled passed me with an'A' and the other instructor gave me a 'D-' after I had suffered an anxiety attack when the school browsers went down. Had it not been for the one instructor, my educational career would be done for, and my four year old son and I would be homeless.

In the past five weeks, going on six now, my weight has gone from 140 lbs. to 117 lbs., and I have become extremely ill as a result of this situation. I have caught one counselor in a blatant lie regarding this grade grievance and a school policy which contradicts itself. I have had eight different people read the same policy, only for them to reach the same conclusion...it does not make sense. Just writing this is difficult and is causing me a great deal of stress.

I am now afraid to even enter the website, and two nights ago, due to the growing psychological stress, came running out of bed in my sleep and hit the wall very hard causing myself a concussion. I have communicated my psychological distress with my instructors, as well as counselors, and they could care less.

I am getting sicker by the day, and I have had to have my psychotropic medications elevated to the point that I cannot even function in a capacity to do my schoolwork, which at first was very stimulating, and made me very happy. I cannot discuss all aspects of this situation here, because I am terrified of this school and I feel so very sick. The elevation in meds is not helping to counter this psychological damage.

All I wanted was to get off of the system before there is no more Social Security, and build a more comfortable way of life for my son and myself, because I was a rarity...a 'high-functioner' for my illness. I had been told that University of Phoenix had a good reputation, so I was excited to join.

I cannot get phone calls returned, especially by the person who holds the ADA information I had to teach myself to scan. I even took psychological tests and sent them in so they had an understanding of how this situation has so adversely affected me, and to give them some idea of my mental health conditions.

As for Robert in New Mexico...are you proud of knowing that uop does this to the disabled? If you are, you are the one that needs your head examined. I have a genius level IQ and they are doing a good job of destroying it. I feel like a fool, and when they knew I was mentally ill, they took full advantage from the very start. To the man in California, I wouldn't hire a UOP student, either, because here is one fool telling you that I am on your side.

No one in that school can be trusted. As long as they can get money out of you, that is all they care about. I am not the only student in peril with this learning institution. My life is now in dire straits, and I need help. I cannot elaborate any further because of fear, and will not divulge those trying to help me for that reason. I am not interested in class action. I do, however, need legal counsel. I live on disability and have a dependent. I live on less than 10, 000 dollars per year.

This is just a few of many issues I am facing with this school. Can anyone help me? I need help and a lawyer with teeth and an ability for contingency, as I have found a great deal of unsavory information. I am case building when I have the ability. As you can see, I cannot sleep, even heavily sedated. I do not know how much longer I can take this.

I am 49 and after being a stay at home mom for 20 years I began working full time in 1999. With no formal training except for my art I began working full time in retail and decided to get in to a career field that I knew would be stable down the road since I plan to work till I am in my sixties. I called University of Phoenix because my sister had attended to obtain bachelors in accounting. I spoke with the 'enrollment counselor' on my decision to become a nurse. I was not teetering on any other career; I was adamant with the 'enrollment counselor' what I wanted. He enrolled me in Axia College and said that I would be first be working on my generals before I began the nursing courses BUT I would have my LVN by 18 months. I had told the 'enrollment counselor that I had recently taken up employment with a new company with steady hours so I would have time to devote to school. I informed him I took a pay cut and could survive on the salary for a couple of years if I could get work as an LVN by no later than 2 years. He assured me that I could do this...'no problem', so I enrolled. My income was low enough I was approved for grants and would only have to pay back the other loans.

About halfway through the courses I was curious to when I would be getting into my nursing courses. By this time I had gone through 2 more 'enrollment counselors, ' three more 'academic counselors, ' who also had full understanding of my career goal, and three other 'financial counselors.' When I inquired about my nursing courses, my 'academic counselor told me AXIA COLLEGE DOES NOT HAVE A NURSING PROGRAM.' The whole time they had led me on and had enrolled me in Health and Human Services Administration. This is a management position which I have NO DESIRE in pursuing. I was in management in retail and hated it. I told the 'academic counselor that I was suppose to be in a nursing program and my goal was to work in geriatric care. She gave me a less than believable 'I'm sorry' but there was nothing they could do since they do not offering nursing degrees. I was already halfway through so I decided to finish the rest of the course and obtain the 'useless' AA in Health and Human Services Administration. You would think I could just get a job in that field till I was through with my nursing program. 'NO' you cannot because for that degree you need to go into the bachelor program because that position you are required by the companies to have a BA. I had no intention of continuing to get a BA in a career I did not want. Now, at 49, I wasted 2 precious years of my life going to school at the sum of over $7000 for a job I cannot obtain and nor desire. I cannot get into the nursing program because the waiting list is over a year out. My credit is shot to hell because as I said, I could get along with the lower income for a while but it has taken its toll after two years. They are going to start billing me for my 2 years of hell after 6 months and I will not have a job to be able to pay for it. YES, they know all this and couldn't care less. I told them, I had been looking since the 'bad news' about my nursing career to see if I could obtain a position in Health and Human Services Administration but as I said, all the positions require a BA not only in the Administration, but accounting as well. I had even told the academic counselor, with the classes they gave for this line of work, they clearly were not giving the students enough knowledge of accounting for the position. I know some of it from my position at work and could see by talking to my sister who is an accountant that there is no way I could competently carry out a job of this magnitude without a degree in accounting. The courses were all inferior both for the accounting and administration portion. My credit is shot now so it doesn't matter if they send me to collection for non payment so I am not losing sleep over repaying my loan. I am now looking for another part time job to pay my bills. Oh, also, if you were thinking about this option, 'NO' the credits are non transferable to another college so the credits will not count, except for your electives.

The fourth or fifth academic counselor was still pushing the BA on me but finally after emailing her to stop and that I was not going to continue she stopped bothering me about it. I'm tired of the 'I'm sorrys for ripping me off. I feel so humiliated about telling my coworkers and family I was going back to school to be a nurse and now I am exactly in the same place I begin over two years ago. At 47 I have a ticking clock about my viability of getting employment but with nursing the need is so that I would not have had a problem. Now at 49 and with the economy in the toilet, I am worried about my livelihood. What kills me the most is the website for UOP has a woman in a nursing uniform, yet they do not offer nursing. Deception for the almighty dollar.