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University of Advancing Technology is a small private technology oriented school. Their newly-enlargeed campus is located on Baseline Road in Tempe, bordering Phoenix. Collins College (a private, for-profit career college focusing on design and technology) does not have a campus, and instead rent apartments from apartment complexes, in which students can live. The school is located in Tempe, with a branch campus in Phoenix.

The University of Phoenix is also headquartered in Phoenix. This is the nation`s largest private, for-profit university with over 130,000 students at campuses throughout the US (including Puerto Rico), Canada, Mexico, and the Netherlands.

Thunderbird School of Global Management, is regarded as the world`s leading institution in the education of global managers and has operations in the US (Glendale), Switzerland, Czech Republic, Russia, Mexico, Central and South America and China. Ranked No. 1 in international business by The Wall Street Journal`s poll of corporate recruiters, U.S. News and World Report, and the Financial Times, Thunderbird is unique in its commitment to producing global leaders who contribute to sustainable prosperity worldwide.

Grand Canyon University is the nations only private, for profit, Christian University. Initially a public school started in 1949, it was purchased by three investors who brought it out of bankruptcy. Since the takeover in 2004, enrollment has increased each year. It currently has over 10,000 students, almost 85% attend the school online.

Public education in the Phoenix area is provided by over 30 school districts. The Phoenix Union High School District operates most of the public high schools in the city of Phoenix. Charter schools such as North Pointe Preparatory School also exist.

Being the capital of Arizona, Phoenix houses the state legislature. In 1913, the commission form of government was adopted. The city of Phoenix is served by a city council consisting of a mayor and eight city council members. The mayor is elected At Large, to a four-year term. Phoenix City Council members are elected to four-year terms by voters in each of the eight separate districts that they represent. The current mayor of Phoenix is Phil Gordon, who was elected to a four-year term in 2003 and re-elected to an additional four-year term in 2007. The mayor and city council members have equal voting power to adopt ordinances and set the policies that govern the city.