University Of Advancing Technology UAT Deceptive Practices, Education Malpractice, False Advertising New Orleans, Louisiana

 I am officially enrolled in the University of advanced technology. I have received the highest scholarship giving out of $32,000. I also have FASFA. my experience with this college has been very professional. I live outside of Arizona in California and have been able to take care of everything over the phone and email. All documents are signed through pandoc encrypted site.

I have been explained every detail and there are no hidden fees because my financial advisor through the college has gone over every detail with me. Even so much as the parking permit to drive or park on school campus. They even told me about a way to park for free so I didn't have to pay for the parking pass. The school has in fact granted my scholarship and once your semester price is discussed and signed the price never changes so there are no surprises.

As for transferring of credits it is a set fee and it doesn't matter if you have one credit or a hundred credits it's the same rate. you also don't have to pay for textbooks there is a flat rate fee paid and all textbooks are digitally available for each class. there's also a materials fee which covers use of any of the equipment at the school, any printing, or 3D printing.

The school is open 24/7 so you can use any of the schools equipment at any time which is a plus. I've never seen a more organized School and professional at that. I just wanted to sign in and clear their name even though this report was done 12 years ago. they obviously have learned from their mistakes.

I also must disagree with the original poster.  

I am also a former student of UAT, and I sympathize entirely with the original reporter's dissatisfaction.


It has been my experience that the vast majority of coursework related to the "Game Design" major at this school is expected to be self-taught by the students. One instructor (whom I will not name at this time), even openly admitted not knowing how to use the software we were assigned to learn by ourselves and use for the course.


The school also uses an online course shell for instructors to assign and receive assignments, and for students to track their progress. However few instructors update their records regularly, leaving students completely in the dark over their progress for long spans of time, sometimes until its far too late to make any improvements. I have heard testimony from several of the handful of instructors the school employs that this is largely due to them being spread too thin across all the courses they have to teach, and not having time to keep them all up to date.

In addition, said course shell is notorious for having several problems. It has been known to mysteriously lose uploaded assignments from time to time, resulting in failed grades without the student ever being aware until much too late, and crashes of the course shell have been known to occur as well, leaving students unable to turn in work, and/or locked out of online tests.


The computer commons area of the campus has only a handful of machines with programming software installed as well. Only a fraction of what is necessary for even a single programming class to make use of at once, and while tuition fees continue to grow at an alarming rate, quality of education issues such as these are overlooked for frivolous image-enhancing spending on unnecessary items such as a multi-touch tabletop set up as a display piece in the campus' main hallway.


Personally, I would be happy to be a part of any legal action that may possibly be taken against this university should a case come to pass.

I understand that you have a right to your opinion, thus this rebuttal is not to claim that nothing bad happened to you.

I am a current student at UAT.  I transferred here three semesters ago from Arizona State University.  Prior to that I transferred to ASU from another university.  I would like to claim that UAT's credit transfer system and override of course policy is not what the original poster claims it to be.

I transferred to ASU without any credits allowed from my previous university.  When I transferred to UAT, not only did they accept ASU credits but also those from my previous university (both were public schools).  Within the first week, I was allowed to forgo all of the remedial math, English and humanities courses and all but upper-level courses in my general studies.  This semester, just by asking, I was allowed to override a course due to extended knowledge of the subject.  The only downside I experienced with this was that it took four requests for the override to finally reach the faculty.  ("They couldn't find it").

Another thing I would like to point out is that after 7 weeks, almost TWO months of the five month semester, most teachers would not let a student into the class as all the foundational work for the course subject has passed and the catch up work would be too immense.  This is true for many universities.  In my personal opinion, the original poster's decision to stick with that one class and not move on to another subject he/she would need is not the fault of the University's.

Also, assuming that the poster is a full-time student, each course would not cost $3000.00.  That estimate is extremely far-off. 

I spoke with a career counselor recently who said that job placement in my personal field has had a placement rate of over 75%.  Granted, my field is NOT game design or programming and I have no knowledge of that field's progress regarding placement, but I can say that the chances of a student getting placed is based a lot on how hard the student is willing to work.

In conclusion, I have no doubt that this previous student of UAT's has had a bad experience.  However, in my personal opinion, it sounds like a lot of what happened is also the fault of the student.  UAT has helped me with financing, career-searching, credit transfers, exemptions from classes and a lot more.  I'm not stating that UAT is perfect, but in my personal experience, they have made attending school a lot easier on the student than other universities I have attended.