OUM started with with a very impressive and age old adage that age should not be a barrier to education: in short; lifelong education but thats about all there is to the university; All lip service and hand me your money. I presume there will not be all that much of a difference from the other similarly based universities unless I hear someone speaks of one that is different I assume non exists. After your registration when you received the books that accompanies a PhD programme(I have since dropped out and I am glad) sucks first because its like the photocopies I can do better at any photocopy shop and theirs probably comes without copyright acknowledgements but this gets worse when you discover that the books have multiple pages repeated in different parts of the book so as to make it appears thick!!(Now how thick, pun intended, can a university be) and yes! it gets even more worst when you found out that the books are full of errors and wrong information. I bought a couple of books(published by McGraw Hill, Thomson, Salkind, etc.) from MPH on the same subject to verify. Lecture times are spent with life stories from the lecturer, none remotely related to the subject in study, and for any questions, please write an email and we will respond as soon as possible, does not ring too convincing then and rightly so, for nobody ever care to respond to my emails.
So registration and tuition fees snugly in their pocket, they decided to conduct a PhD Colloquium which I managed to escape from being ripped off(I'll explain later) due to my travel and work commitments. I was fool enough to register for the 2nd PhD Colloquium and found out to my disappointment that it was not to discuss problems and issues face by PhD and Masters students but a venue for the so-called Prof. Dr. to extol their greatness, their wisdom and their sob stories of how and what hardship they had gone through to complete their PhDs. Questions related to any study issues or problem are brushed aside with the comment that we should write emails to them and that they will then get back to us as soon as possible.
The whole colloquium was occupied for the morning and a major part of the afternoon by a "Prof Dr" Nagarajah and a "Prof Dr" Chung who even had to go beyond his allocated slot to tell us his sob stories so much so that the only useful part of the whole colloquium was reduced to a less than 20 minutes session with another Dr. who at least seems to be contributing something useful to us students but for the lack of time, thanks to a stupid self indulging idiot of a Prof Dr who think his idiotic past is something he can be proud of and needs to be broad casted to the world!
Having spoken to a number of their so-called Dr. and Professors, both in the administration and academic capacities, I have come to conclusion from the shallowness of their thoughts and discussions,(reading from the text!) to the arrogance of their attitudes, I sincerely doubt their qualifications or status were obtained via the usual processes or based on their academic merits or achievements.
So my recommendation to any potential student who has a genuine interest in pursuing further studies, with a genuine institution providing genuine courses with legitimatequalified academics, to avoid OUM, irrespective of how attractive their fees my appear to be.
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