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University of Phoenix is constantly innovating to help students balance education and life in a rapidly changing world. Through flexible schedules, challenging courses and interactive learning, students achieve personal goals without putting their lives on hold. The University serves a diverse student population, offering associate's, bachelor's, master's and doctoral degree programs from campuses and learning centers across the United States, as well as online throughout the world.

  • Success in Education

    Ever since I was 17 years old, I wanted to be a college instructor. After completing my first bachelor’s degree in a little over three years, I wanted to be finished for life with college. That lasted four years and then I returned for life. After earning five degrees—with more than 500 credits to my name, plus assorted noncredit classes—I figured it was time to start sharing what I learned and experienced in my life. I began teaching for national research universities, small local colleges and other online schools, ultimately reaching over 5,000 students in more than 300 classes.

  • Making a Difference for Working Learners

    As an instructor at University of Phoenix Dallas Campus, it’s very important to me to have an impact on my students, particularly because they’re working learners with limited time but a lot of determination. I want to make a difference for them. For that reason, I make sure that within the first several weeks of a course, they understand what they’re learning and how to immediately apply it to their jobs.

  • Teaching MBAs Will Take Me Around the World

    I started teaching after obtaining two master’s degrees, one in economics and another in public policy. My goal is and has been to help educate and improve public policy for those who live in third-world countries. In order to prepare for that kind of challenge, I thought, “Why not start teaching here in the U.S.?” While I’ve always been interested in teaching and helping people, it didn’t take long for me to discover the challenges of teaching in a traditional format. That’s when I found myself with an opportunity to teach for University of Phoenix.

  • UOPX partners on solar energy project

    Through AzRISE, University of Phoenix joined The University of Arizona to explore solar power technology. With a goal to promote sustainable resources, the schools worked together to build a car powered by sunlight. UOPX and the U of A continue to combine their resources to develop education programs that can help students develop solar technology for the future.

  • Going Green for a better tomorrow

    Apollo Group, parent company of University of Phoenix, is environmentally conscious. From a Green initiative that involved sustainable design approaches when our corporate offices were built to energy efficient lighting, we are making a commitment to ourselves and our future. At campuses nationwide we are consuming less energy and recycling for a better tomorrow.

  • Accessibility, Flexibility Lead to Diversity at University of Phoenix

    Not since the G.I. Bill of Rights of World War II have so many adults sought higher education. Before the war, college was mostly a pursuit of the privileged, an unattainable dream for the average American. But after the 1944 passage of the bill, millions of veterans now found the doors of academe wide open and welcoming, regardless of race, religion or socioeconomic standing. In the peak year of 1947, veterans accounted for 49 percent of college admissions.

  • Phoenix Risen

    How a history professor became the pioneer of the for-profit revolution

    John G. Sperling, as he often reminds those around him, is running out of time. At 88, he is in relatively good health, despite a weak kidney and back problems. He still walks the dog, drives himself to meetings, and seems to have no shortage of nervous energy: Forced to sit still for any length of time, he twirls his cellphone between two fingers or distractedly peels the label from a bottle of water, leaving it in shreds on the table.