University of Advancing Technology

What a great place! Great programs, the best teachers, cool technology and resources at your finger tips ²⁴⁄₇. Students have easy, regular access to technology and industry leaders. This school has online options too! The campus is small with easy parking, nice dorms, cool café, tech everywhere and nice, helpful staff. If you have a passion for tech, a need to innovate, a desire to be successful… this is a great school without the hassle of a large campus.

Taught me how to be successful in the IT world! Not everyone can be successful but people that apply themselves usually are. Graduated in 2002 and supervise a world class team of developers. We started with a class of 36 less than 10 graduated, the one star reviews you read about are the ones who couldn’t hack it. They’re the ones flipping your burgers or answering your customer services calls at T-​Mobile. Study hard and like what you study, you’ll be successful here, otherwise stick to GCC!

@JoelWatson, man, I wouldn’t be anywhere with out this Institution! #lovewhatyoudo!

The cost of this college is not worth the education.
Do not assume everyone that doesn’t have a job in the field did not work hard at their education, UAT just doesn’t produce quality education.
Go to a school with cheaper tuition. You will thank yourself.
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I came here for a Good Faith Casting workshop and I liked the campus. The classroom were bright and in good condition. The staff working at the cafeteria was super nice and my fellow actors and I had a great lunch there. Parking was easy. I would attend a workshop there again.

Great place for meetings in their conference rooms and the also serve hamburgers, grill cheese at a café that goes through evenings in the adjoining building!

I am not a student here but I have been to a few events here and it’s seems to be a pretty cool place. I enjoy the informative and fun events and they have great spaces and equipment to utilize.

Any school is what you make it. I attended this school and got my degree in software engineering and followed that by attending Arizona State University master in engineering program. The level of rigor was the same.
At UAT, I was able to start my own clubs and projects at UAT which included game engine design, robotics projects, and applied mathematic principles to computing that was engaging and challenging. It directly contributed to my current job for a fortune 50 enterprise software company.
I agree that the alumni and career services center need improvement, however, many of the instructors work directly in industry and can get you an internship if you apply yourself.

Don’t you just hate it when…
Everything ends up being smoke and mirrors.
Let me explain…
People need to stop writing reviews if they have never attended or have just visited, It’s giving potential students the wrong idea.
You will regret attending.
This school’s career services are a joke.
The legit teachers on current projects do a better job of helping students with jobs after they graduate.
The people are awesome, yes. Faculty and students alike. Great friends but the schooling and amount of relevant educational material is pathetic, no matter how hard you work at trying to be involved and a part of the school, the services and support UAT «provides» falls short of industry standards.
This isn’t a college it’s like a second version of High School.
Half of my friends transferred to other colleges, a handful (including myself) pushed through and stuck it out because we were too far in) and ALL of the people I know that have attended have regretted it. If they let the Alumni forums combine with the Incoming students, you’d see for yourself all the stories people are telling of their time here. They’d never do that though for fear of losing potential students.
It’s all smoke and mirrors and it kills me when I see kids walking in for that tour, «ooh look shiny things and video games!» That’s great and all but it does not prepare you for your future.
I wish I could get my money back, I’d even give back the degree if I had to… it’s that bad and not worth the time here.
For the price you’re paying, you can do better I promise you.
Unfortunately UAT has been not only the biggest regret of my life but of other’s lives as well.

Great place to hold a tech conference… like Podcamp AZ! They have been used for 4 years now, and they always come back for more. My husband also taught here in the University’s beginnings and has always been impressed by it. It really seems like an advanced tech-​school, and a good place to start if you want a specialized training.

I am just beginning my time at UAT but I have to disagree with Dennis E.
UAT is stuck offering BA’s in gaming design which is a tough market to get into but very popular with «Geeks».
The programming courses seem very comprehensive and the atmosphere is designed for innovative thinking which is important in our rapidly evolving culture.
I like the small intimate size of the school and feel comfortable there. The school is no more expensive than most on-​line colleges.
You get out of an education what you put into it. I expect to have a strong tool kit when I graduate and hope to make some very good friends along the way.

UAT in two words: «Geek Daycare»
The unfortunate truth about this school is that it could have been great; however, the officers and upper managers have allowed their hubris and nepotism to drive out excellent staff/​faculty members and alienate their alumni.
Curriculum design is based on the marketing department’s research on what’s ‘cool’ in today’s geek culture. Very little industry input, if any, is used to direct the curriculum. The software engineering degree can be obtained without having to take a database course, and only 2 – 3 programming classes are required.
Policies are more like guidelines. They are upheld when it suites the school’s agenda and overlooked when they are an inconvenience.
The school currently has elected to require students to complete a «Student Innovation Project» over developing a portfolio. So, instead of being able to show potential employers that they have the needed base skills to do a job, they have a project to show that they can ‘innovate’ which few companies are interested in.
Overpriced education. As of the Fall semester of 2009, UAT’s tuition is over $ 9,000 a semester when the education received does not reflect the needs of the industry since the school seems to disregard valuable industry input. Therefore, the value of the degree when students graduate and try to get a job in their respective industry falls well below what the student pays for.
The Provost of UAT would argue that students aren’t just paying for an education but also paying for an experience. This confirms my opinion that UAT is a Geek Daycare where they substitute educational quality for student experiences.
Expanding on the quality of education, and revisiting my comments about marketing’s curriculum design and being able to get a degree in software engineering, the school shows no ability to provide any quality assurance on their curricula to ensure students are receiving the needed education for their respective industry. The only QA the school offers is their faculty instructors.
There are few instructors I’d actually give an outstanding review of their ability to teach; however, I believe even those few become bogged down with overloaded course schedules and having to oversee upwards of seven courses in a semester.
Going back to my point about quality assurance, these instructors are the first and last line of defense of what is taught. Entire degree programs get advertised before all the courses are developed leaving paying students to be beta testers in their experimental degree programs.
The $ 9,000/semester + housing and other expenses for a poor education and «student experience» is not worth the years of debt students at UAT are accruing and the debt that I have accrued first-​hand as an alumnus, the previous student body president and active student at UAT.
Edit 6÷2÷2010
Some Reviewers have only begun their time at the school and seem to be regurgitating UAT marketing materials where as others have actually completed a degree, been involved with student activities, know the kinds of people the management are, and have even worked in the Student Life department. I would recommend current students reading this to go to a Student Government meeting and ask to read what some of the Alumni have to say about the school in the Alumni forums. There’s a reason the school keeps the current student population and Alumni population segregated.
Edit 12/​13/​2013
According to
, a .Net senior developer makes about $ 126k/​yr in NY, and according to CNN Money’s cost of living calculator, $ 125k/​yr in Manhattan NY is about $ 53k/​yr in Phoenix AZ (for comparison). Then again, a ‘six figure’ salary is a rather vague amount of money. People who apply themselves will be successful regardless of what school they choose, so why not choose a school whose primary focus is student education and success rather than profitability?
Edit 10/​21/​2014
«the one star reviews you read about are the ones who couldn’t hack it. They’re the ones flipping your burgers or answering your customer services calls at T-​Mobile.»
I’m a successful developer working in the Phoenix valley and seem to be «hacking it» just fine. I attribute my success to a certain programming professor who has now moved on from UAT to ASU where he gets the appreciation he deserves. So I recommend prospective students go apply themselves at ASU.

This is where we have help PodCamp AZ in 2007, 2008 and upcoming 2009. What a great place. The programs they offer to students are top notch, the facility is expertly outfitted for anything and they really focus on having the latest tools for their students.
All this makes our event extremely awesome. UAT gives us nearly the entire facility to put our event in and takes care of our every need. From computer usage, presentation machines, projectors and all of their rooms, to having their staff there ²⁴⁄₇ and available to our attendees and planners. I can’t go on enough about how amazing the entire experience has been. We look forward to working with them EVERY YEAR! Thanks UAT!
You Rock!