U. of Phoenix buys naming rights to Cardinals stadium

[Jack Cribbin]

http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=2603052

[Gregg Pathiakis]

"University of Phoenix Stadium"... That's pretty interesting... a professional sports team playing in what sounds like a college's stadium.

[StrykerFSU]

And of course more lucrative than Patrick Tillman Stadium.

[Has No Left]

1 University of Phoenix (Phoenix, AZ) 163,800.0

2 Brigham Young University (Provo, UT) 33,427.0

3 New York University (New York, NY) 30,867.0

4 University of Southern California (Los Angeles, CA) 29,744.0

5 Boston University (Boston, MA) 23,391.0

6 University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA) 20,612.0

7 Cornell University (Ithaca, NY) 20,292.0

8 Northeastern University (Boston, MA) 20,260.0

9 George Washington University (Washington, DC) 18,858.0

10 Columbia University (New York, NY) 18,478.0

11 Harvard University (Cambridge, MA) 18,429.0

If you don't have a football team, I guess it's cool to market yourself like you do! Who ever came up with this idea at U of P is pretty clever.

[whitcd]

University of Phoenix is a private college? The way they sell there online degree programs makes they seem like a public university open to anybody.

[LaxRef]

University of Phoenix is a private college? The way they sell there online degree programs makes they seem like a public university open to anybody.

I don't think public colleges are "open to anybody," although some public colleges probably don't turn too many people away. The "public" comes from whether they get money from the state, doesn't it?

[DanGenck]

You are correct, Laxref. Even though private colleges also get government monday (usually to the scholarship funds).

I remember a big flap at St. John's by students when the state government decided to nix the scholarship money. Maybe this is the conservative in me... but if you choose private college, don't get in a huff when the state doesn't want to fund your programs. You choose private, you pay for private.

[Jack Cribbin]

University of Phoenix is different than the rest b/c they are a FOR PROFIT University, when all of the other ones listed above are NON FOR PROFIT.