Henry Chien, BMO Capital Markets
Great. Thanks very much.
Brian Swartz, SVP and Chief Financial Officer, Apollo Education Group, Inc.
Thank you.
Operator
Your next question comes from the line of Corey Greendale with First Analysis. Your line is open.
Tom Bakas, First Analysis
Hey, guys. This is Tom Bakas, on for Corey. I was hoping you just maybe talk a little bit about an update on the corporate partnership initiatives and how those conversations have evolved over time?
Greg Cappelli, Chief Executive Officer, Apollo Education Group, Inc.
Yeah. Thank you. I’m very pleased with those conversations and the number of relationships that we’re building and the level to which we’re building them. We are gathering and learning a great deal of what is concerning employers, both large and small, around the country in various parts of the world. We are beginning to build to those specifications and those issues and we think that we can more quickly and efficiently solve their problems than many others. So, that is an important part of our future initiatives here at the Apollo Education Group both domestically and internationally.
I’m pleased with where things stand right now. I think we will continue to get traction. I’ve discussed one of the big announcements or a couple of them we have this past quarter and we’re looking to deliver more on that going forward.
Tom Bakas, First Analysis
Great. Thanks. Then just quickly, could you just talk about sort of the uptake of the certificate programs and the boot camps, any comments around that?
Brian Swartz, SVP and Chief Financial Officer, Apollo Education Group, Inc.
Yeah. I mean, the boot camp specifically has performed very, very well. I mean, our first cohort graduated a couple of months ago and we were able to – they were successful in getting jobs. We are very pleased with the results of that and we are well into rolling into the second cohort and then extending from there. So we’re very pleased with where we’re out there.
Tom Bakas, First Analysis
Thanks, guys.
Greg Cappelli, Chief Executive Officer, Apollo Education Group, Inc.
Thank you.
Operator
Your next question comes from the line of Trace Urdan with Wells Fargo. Your line is open.
Trace Urdan, Wells FargoSecurities, LLC
Thanks very much, Brian. I’m going to start by calling you out a little bit on this discussion around the 220. You were kind enough to give us the over/under there. Obviously, that also includes some similar assumptions around starts and retention. Can you share some of that with us in terms of sort of best case/worst case that you’re looking at right now?
Greg Cappelli, Chief Executive Officer, Apollo Education Group, Inc.
Yeah. I mean, it’s a good question, Trace, I mean, I think as we said, our goal here – we’ve had several quarters behind us of improving rates of decline in that trend. It would be nice to see that continue. Our real goal – it might be – there could be some quarterly fluctuations here and there. It maybe not be exactly linear, but in general, we would expect certainly to end fiscal ‘15 at a lower rate of decline than we did in fiscal ‘14, which we’ve obviously done in Q1, which we’re,as I mentioned, pleased with. I don’t want to give more quantified specifics on that, but hopefully it gives you a perspective in terms of what we’re shooting for forthe rest of the year.
