April search volume holding strong
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Educational Attainment of the Population 18 Years and Over, by Age, Sex, Race, and Hispanic Origin: 2008
Table 1. Educational Attainment of the Population 18 Years and Over, by Age, Sex, Race, and Hispanic Origin: 2008
(Numbers in thousands. Civilian noninstitutionalized population /1.)
All Races
Educational Attainment
Total
None
High school graduate
Some college no degree
Associate’s , occupational
Associate’s, academic
Bachelor’s
Master’s
Professional
Doctoral
Both Sexes
.18 years and over
224,703
824
69,480
44,168
9,016
9,573
40,070
14,893
3,009
2,485
..18 to 24 years
28,398
47
8,296
10,356
608
799
2,511
128
17
14
.25 years and over
196,305
776
61,183
33,812
8,408
8,774
37,559
14,765
2,991
2,472
..25 to 29 years
21,057
30
6,017
4,109
834
1,054
5,012
1,227
181
57
..30 to 34 years
19,089
40
5,280
3,287
873
956
4,409
1,565
309
210
..35 to 39 years
20,733
40
5,586
3,623
967
1,072
4,695
1,865
375
268
..40 to [...]
Low cost/tuition online schools…they have been growing, what are your thoughts of long term prospects?
There have been a number of entrants into the online degree space whose tuition are at significantly lower price points than the majors. Some of these have seen tremendous enrollment growth over the last year to two. In addition, they have remained (in many cases) extremely profitable. What are your thoughts on these low price providers? [...]
EDU stocks trading at low prices & multiples
Take a look at the EDU stocks, now looks to be a good time to buy in at good prices and at multiples as low as they have been in a while. With all the bullish discussion of late the EDU sector has taken a hit. With people/investors being short sighted and thinking, hey if [...]
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What ever happened to Apollo’s Billion Dollar International Investment Fund?
Remember the press release from 2007 about Apollo’s billion dollar invetment with Carlyle? What ever happened with that?Apollo Group and the Carlyle Group Form $1 Billion Joint Venture to Make Investments in the International Education Services Sector
PHOENIX & WASHINGTON–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Oct. 22, 2007–Apollo Group, Inc. (Nasdaq:APOL) (”Apollo Group” or the “Company”), and private equity firm The [...]
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Whens the next wave of acquisitions comming?
I have heard a few rumors but wanted to see what you think. 2002-2003 was suck a massive year for acquisitions but we haven’t seen a boom year (regarding acquisitions) since. Whose ripe for the picking? Whens the next roll-up coming out? There are so many nice mid-sized private for-profit schools out there just lining [...]
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Bridgepoint Education Inc goes public below asking
Priced at $10.50 with a target $11-$14
Bridgepoint Education, which has two small traditional college campuses and 98% of its students attending exclusively online, generated more than twice the revenue and eight times the earnings in 2008 versus 2007, ending the year with $26.4 million in profits. It has more students, faster enrollment growth and a [...]
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In Sourcing vs. Outsourcing
A lot of talk has surfaced in the last few months over the topic of In-sourcing vs. Outsourcing. I guess this could be an expected outcome of Apol buying Aptimus. Clearly there are advantages of both, here are some of them:
Outsourcing:
Leveraging a firm who is experienced, and leveraging their power with the vendors for pricing [...]
Will online masters growth hold up?
After speaking with many analysts over the last few months there are two big fears that keep being repeated. The first being bad debt and the other top fear is the continued growth of online Master programs. The main reasons mentioned are potential future cuts by corporations of tuition reimbursement & continued decline in economy, thus [...]
As expected Apol exceeds expectations, yet analysts still fear
For its fiscal second quarter, Apollo Group reported earnings of $0.77 per share, $0.12 better than the First Call consensus of $0.65.
Revenues rose 26.3% year-over-year to $876.1 million, topping the consensus estimate of $865.5 million.
Contributing to the growth was a 20.4% year-over-year increase in degreed enrollment to 397,700.
With all of this good news the stock [...]
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