University of Phoenix

The University of Phoenix (UOPX) is an American revenue driven establishment of higher learning, headquartered in Phoenix, Arizona, United States. The college has an open-enlistment affirmation arrangement, requiring a secondary school confirmation, GED, or its proportional as its foundation for admissions.The college has 112 grounds worldwide and gives degrees in more than 100 degree programs at the partner, bachelor's, expert's and doctoral degree levels. It is an entirely possessed auxiliary of Apollo Education Group Inc., a traded on an open market (NASDAQ: APOL) Phoenix-based company that claims a few for-benefit instructive organizations. 

History

The college was established by John Sperling. Started in 1976, the top of the line comprised of eight students.In 1980, the school extended to San Jose, California, and in 1989, the college propelled its online program.In 1994, University of Phoenix pioneers settled on the choice to take the guardian organization, Apollo Group open. Capital from Wall Street propelled the school. Phoenix had more than 100,000 understudies inside of the initial five years of going public. Growth in the organization made John Sperling a billionaire. In February, 2016 the Apollo Group declared it will be sold to a private venture bunch, made up of the Najafi Companies, Apollo Global Management and the Vistria Group, for $1 billion. Previous U.S. Bureau of Education Deputy Secretary Anthony W. Mill operator, accomplice and head working officer of Vistria, will get to be chairman. The deal will be must be affirmed by both the U.S. Bureau of Education and the accreditation aggregate the Higher Learning Commission with a specific end goal to go forward.

Campuses

While the school spends significant time in online projects, the grounds offer extra projects and services. Online understudies are additionally ready to utilize coaching and social focuses, which can likewise be utilized for social and understudy gatherings. The main focus opened in 2007 in Plano, Texas. Understudies have entry to class-particular online assets, which incorporate an electronic library, reading material, and other auxiliary material required for a course. The college says that the electronic reading material incorporate pursuit elements and hyperlinks to glossary terms that make the books simpler to use for research.

Academics

• School of Advanced Studies
• School of Business
• College of Security and Criminal Justice
• College of EducationCollege of Humanities and Sciences
• College of Information Systems and Technology
• College of Social Sciences
• College of Health Professions
• School of Nursing
• School of Health Services Administration

Understudies burn through 20 to 24 hours with a teacher amid every course, contrasted and around 40 hours at a customary college. The college obliges understudies to team up by dealing with learning group ventures, wherein the class is separated into learning groups of four to five understudies. Every learning group is relegated a group gathering where colleagues talk about the undertaking and present their heaps of the learning group task for arrangement by the designated learning group leader. Through its online gateway, eCampus, understudies additionally have admittance to programming required for coursework. Understudies have admittance to virtual organizations made by the college to give understudies assignments, which Adam Honea, UOPX's senior member and executive, cases are more sensible than those accessible with case studies. In August 2011, Apollo bunch declared it would purchase 100% of Carnegie Learning to quicken its endeavors to fuse versatile learning into its scholastic platform. A few scholastics and previous understudies contend the shortened courses and the utilization of learning groups result in a substandard education. The University of Phoenix has been censured for absence of scholarly meticulousness. Henry M. Levin, an educator of advanced education at Teachers College at Columbia University, called its business degree a "MBA Lite," saying "I've taken a gander at  course materials. It's a low level of instruction."