Apollo owns the University of Phoenix, a school with more than 350, 000 enrolled students worldwide.
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Enter the Apollo Group, aka University of Phoenix, (ticker APOL), a leading provider of private, online education.
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Places like the University of Phoenix and DeVry and National University provide lots of convenience for their students.
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We continue to be advocates for the University of Phoenix and are still working with them in various capacities.
At the other extreme, ordinary students attend the University of Phoenix, mostly on-line, and not in any way artisanal.
In the late 1990s, Bill Gibbs, the former president of the University of Phoenix, began building the ultimate play house.
In addition, the University of Phoenix is a private, all-Internet, degree-granting institution.
Perhaps gratifyingly, the for-profits like the University of Phoenix are probably toast.
And the University of Phoenix, America's largest private education provider, has sharply increased enrolments, from 384, 000 to 455, 000 in the past year.
Yet nobody had explained it in a way that also explained the success of Dell, Wal-Mart and the University of Phoenix.
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After Yale which she loved, she worked at McKinsey from which she joined University of Phoenix as a strategic advisor to the CEO.
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Case in point: As is often the case these days, following the arrival of a new CMO, University of Phoenix and the agency just parted ways.
For the most part, for-profit companies like Kaplan, Strayer and the University of Phoenix (among others) offer specialized degrees and certificates closely related to specific jobs.
Oregon Ducks players hoist the golden football from the championship trophy after the 2013 Fiesta Bowl against the Kansas State Wildcats at University of Phoenix Stadium.
Apollo Group Inc. (APOL) : For-profit education firms like this parent company of the University of Phoenix have come under great regulatory scrutiny in recent years.
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Owned by publicly traded Apollo Group, University of Phoenix enrolls some 400, 000 students on 200 campuses nationwide, and has a giant, highly profitable distance learning division.
In a November 30 interview, co-founder, Elli Sharef explained that she got the idea for HireArt from her tenure at Apollo Group (APOL) subsidiary, University of Phoenix.
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And for-profit companies such as the University of Phoenix are stripping out costs by concentrating on a handful of popular courses as well as making full use of the internet.
It is not, however, the for-profit colleges such as the University of Phoenix that have worried us for years, nibbling around the edges at our enrollments and threatening our monopoly.
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Aimed first at companies rather than individual students, the innovation class is intended to spur "a reputational shift" for the school, said Barry Feierstein, chief business officer at University of Phoenix.
Though the new offering won't have a meaningful impact on revenue right away, Mr. Feierstein said he hopes University of Phoenix becomes a smaller share of overall earnings in the future.
That Orange County mortgage broker (who used to be a pizza delivery guy) can take a class online from the University of Phoenix (APOL) and become a computer engineer in Silicon Valley.
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Universities such as the University of Phoenix, DeVry University, and Capella University have been tightly integrated, proprietary, and highly successful as the early leaders in the field of online learning.
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University of Phoenix Stadium is fantastic, and Glendale has greater odds of warmer weather during the first week of January compared to North Texas (Weather.com monthly temp averages for Glendale and North Texas).
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Note: there is no connection between the for-profit education concern, the Apollo Group, which owns the University of Phoenix, and Apollo Global Management, the private-equity business that is purchasing the McGraw-Hill education division.
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Facing sharp enrollment declines and regulatory scrutiny, the parent company of University of Phoenix will try to shore up its reputation and revenue with an executive-education course on innovation led by heavy hitters from Harvard and elsewhere.
Silber of BMO Capital Markets says that for-profit schools have been responding to the scrutiny with some changes, like the free three-week orientation University of Phoenix started offering this year, to applicants who have fewer than 24 college credits.
The University of Phoenix, set up in 1989 to teach adults through a combination of old-fashioned distance learning and evening classes, is incorporating more and more e-learning into its courses, which are mostly taken by people with full-time jobs.
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