It really makes me laugh to see this place sink--this is a tired business model and its ship has sailed. This place will be only online by 2018, and there will be fewer than 75K idiots buying a fake credential. LMAO.
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@85372, you may be right about the final result. However, Apollo Group did not buy Jane Oates for nothing......http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/college_guide/blog/jane_oates_sells_out.php.....If the Republicans win in 2016, they will bail out UoP. Clintons also favor big business over people, including for-profit schools (e.g. Laureate), so they also are likely to bail out UoP. Many judges are one APOL's side and will side with business. Lots of (current) allies including Al Sharpton, Boys & Girls Clubs, HBCU's, Petroleum Institute. Let's see how loyal they are.
Except the shareholders will say otherwise as in selling. Operating capital will shrink no matter what bullshit management wants to spin. In another quarter, it will be more tap-dancing and Tim will be sorry he left Michigan for Phoenix. No military customers, no ground campuses, no more sky is the limit financial aid, no more growth. Match that with innovation and no, you are not going to see innovation that can counter all the negative numbers or surpass them. The bottom line is that management is about a few quarters away from flying the business into the side of a building and it is clear they have no idea whatsoever about how to fix things. If they had, they would have and they would not have had years of enrollment declines and shrinking revenues. It is not a sustainable model; it is losing money. Time will seal the deal.
Too difficult to predict. Can't just look at numbers. Need to look at political connections and other variables.
Maybe a year. I predict huge layoffs very soon. I'm already looking elsewhere.