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Editorial model: This site is a disclosed sponsored educational resource about researching data analytics, data science, business analytics, computer science, data management, and related online degree pathways. Pages are organized around source-verifiable categories such as accreditation, field classification, curriculum, delivery format, workload, transfer credit, admissions, cost, and broad occupational context.

Source-first framing: Federal education sources, federal labor sources, accreditor directories, agency publications, and institution-owned program documents are used for the factual claims they directly support. NCES CIP pages support field-classification context. BLS and O*NET support broad occupational context. DAPIP, CHEA, and accreditor sources support accreditation and recognition context. Institution pages support only the institution-specific program facts they state.

Limits of information: This site does not publish institutional rankings, provide program-ranking lists, compare named schools, guarantee admission, guarantee transfer credit, guarantee employment, guarantee salary outcomes, or substitute for an institution's official catalog, tuition page, admissions page, transfer-credit policy, academic calendar, or accreditation record. Program facts can change, so time-sensitive details should be verified against the current official source.

University of Phoenix context: University of Phoenix is the sponsor of this site. Where University of Phoenix appears in topic pages, it is used only as a source-backed institutional example and not as a recommendation over other institutions. In 2019, University of Phoenix settled FTC allegations related to marketing and recruiting conduct from 2012 to 2016 under prior ownership by Apollo Education Group. The settlement resulted in a negotiated $191 million stipulated judgment in which the University of Phoenix did not admit any wrongdoing. The FTC settlement is a consumer-protection regulatory record, not an HLC accreditation action. This site treats that history as dated regulatory context and does not use it to make unsupported present-tense claims.

Sources

• https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2019/12/ftc-obtains-record-191-million-settlement-university-phoenix-resolve-ftc-charges-it-used-deceptive
• https://www.phoenix.edu/media-center/ftc-statement.html
• https://ope.ed.gov/dapip/#/home#/home
• https://www.chea.org/about-accreditation
• https://www.bls.gov/ooh/
• https://www.onetonline.org/
• https://nces.ed.gov/ipeds/cipcode/Default.aspx?y=56
• https://studentaid.gov/help-center/answers/article/what-does-cost-of-attendance-mean