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It depends what you want. If you are more into professional development, it might not be a bad choice (will likely be an expensive one), but community college around the country does a great job offering value education that in many respect is comparable, if not better than UOP.
One thing you need to know is that UOP is not the usual academic institution. It is a for profit business that is also, ironically, granted to offer degree programs. I think only in US can one find such odd policy, and personally, I think it's a questionable practice to try to profit from education. What needs to be differentiated is for profit institutions and private schools. Private schools are NOT for profit. They are private only because it is not funded by governments. They charge you money just so that they can continue their operations, and a large part of the private school education is supported by endowments made by rich people in the past. For profit institution, UOP being one of the most famous one, wants to make a profit, on the other hand. That means that the tuition you pay goes into profit of a shareholder somewhere. It does not have the concept of an "endowment" because when people put money into for profit schools like UOP, DeVry, etc, they want profit in return. It's not a donation.
I am not saying that there is no value in for profit education. You just need to know if you can get the same deal at public places like community or state college for a much lower price. What UOP can offer is what they call "job connection," which might be useful to some extent. But community college/state college in US often offer great career assistance as well. It's your call, but if I were you, I would not dump money into UOP when there are close substitutes elsewhere.
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