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

The University of Phoenix accomplished a crest enlistment of right around 600,000 understudies in 2010, yet its numbers have declined to 227,000 starting 2015. The enlistment drop (and more than 100 grounds closings) have been ascribed to operational changes in the midst of feedback of high obligation loads and low employment prospects for understudies of revenue driven universities.

History

The college was established by John Sperling. Begun in 1976 in the Phoenix metropolitan zone, the five star comprised of eight students.In 1980, the school extended to San Jose, California, and in 1989, the college propelled its online system. 

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 opening up to the world. Development in the organization made John Sperling a very rich person. 

From 2010 until 2012 enlistment declined, purportedly from development of rivalry and negative press.

Campuses

While the school works in online projects, the grounds offer extra projects and administrations. Online understudies are likewise ready to utilize mentoring and social focuses, which can likewise be utilized for social and understudy gatherings. The main focus opened in 2007 in Plano, Texas. 

Understudies have admittance to class-particular online assets, which incorporate an electronic library, reading material, and other subordinate material required for a course. The college says that the electronic course books incorporate inquiry elements and hyperlinks to glossary terms that make the books less demanding to use for examination.

Academics

The college offers degree programs through seven universities and two schools. These are named the School of Advanced Studies, School of Business, College of Criminal Justice and Security, College of Education, College of Humanities, College of Information Systems and Technology, College of Natural Sciences, College of Nursing, and the College of Social Sciences. Notwithstanding its conventional instruction programs, the school offers proceeding with training courses for educators and experts, proficient improvement courses for organizations, and specific courses of study for military work force. 

Understudies burn through 20 to 24 hours with a teacher amid every course, contrasted and around 40 hours at a conventional college. The college additionally obliges understudies to work together by taking a shot at learning group ventures, wherein the class will be isolated into learning groups of four to five understudies. Every learning group is alloted a group gathering where colleagues will examine the task and present their tons of the learning group task for arrangement by the assigned learning group pioneer. The idea of learning groups is to some degree phenomenal in conventional the scholarly world; in any case, the University of Phoenix trusts that teaming up on activities and having people depend on one another mirrors the genuine working states of the corporate world. 

Through its online entrance, eCampus, University of Phoenix understudies likewise have entry to programming required for coursework. Accessible, for instance, are virtual organizations made by the college to furnish understudies with assignments, which Adam Honea, UOPX's senior member and executive, cases are more reasonable than those accessible with contextual investigations. In August 2011, Apollo gathering declared it would purchase 100% of Carnegie Learning to quicken its endeavors to consolidate versatile learning into its scholarly stage. 

A few scholastics and previous understudies feel the shortened courses and the utilization of learning groups result in a second rate training. The University of Phoenix has been scrutinized for absence of scholastic 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 direction." In May 2008, the college reported the arrangement of the University of Phoenix National Research Center, intended to consider which showing systems work best for nontraditional understudies.

Admission and Financial Aid

The University of Phoenix has an open confirmations approach. In light of protests about the utilization of money related guide by revenue driven schools in 2010 the college started an introduction project intended to lower dropout and default rates. Understudies should effectively finish a three-week introduction workshop to be qualified to begin their first credit/expense bearing course. Understudies who don't finish the workshop after two endeavors must hold up six months before endeavoring once more. 

Phoenix selected understudies utilizing high-weight deals strategies by confirmations advocates who are paid, partially, in view of their achievement in enrolling understudies. Since 2010, changes were actualized to the way the college initiates understudies. 

The college vigorously enrolls understudies and acquires monetary guide on their behalf,such as the Academic Competitiveness Grant, Federal Pell Grant, National Science and Mathematics Access to Retain Talent Grant (National SMART Grant), Federal Direct Student Loan Program, Federal Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grant, Federal Direct PLUS Loans, Federal Perkins Loan, and the Wounded Warrior Project.For the 2008–2009 financial year, the University of Phoenix understudy body got more Pell Grant cash ($656.9 million) than some other college. 

USA Today has recorded University of Phoenix as a "warning" establishment for posting an understudy credit default rate (26%) that surpassed its graduation rate (17%). The University of Phoenix's Detroit grounds has a graduation rate of just 10%, yet an understudy credit default rate of 26.4%. A 2010 report found that the University of Phoenix's online graduation rate was just 5 percent.According to collegecalc.org, educational cost expenses are normally 300% to 500% more costly than junior college.