Phil Stiller, Citi
Okay, great. Thanks, guys.
Brian Swartz, Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, Apollo Education Group
Thank you.
Operator
Your next question comes from the line of Trace Urdan with Wells Fargo. Your line is open.
Trace Urdan, Wells Fargo Securities, LLC
Hey, thanks. Could you talk about, and I know this came up last quarter as well, that as a function of the new university structure, you are seeing some additional investment spending, some request from the newly created divisions for things that they want to do. I get a lot of questions from investors about the sort of the changing dynamic on the expense side and the fact that there is more spending this year.
Is it possible without giving up anything to proprietary that you could sort of give us some examples of the kinds of things that you are spending money on now that you have this new organization and sort of what some of these investments involve?
Greg Cappelli, Chief Executive Officer, Apollo Education Group, Inc.
Trace, it’s a very good question. I don’t want to go on to a lot of detail there. I will tell you that the university has brought in some extraordinary talent. By the way, starting with Tim Slottow, the President, and that is beginning to show up in ways where they are asking for investments and capital into specific areas of the schools where they now have better information than ever about their industry; the size, the competitive nature, what businesses and employers are looking for, connecting that content to careers, exactly and specifically how they think they can take market share back which the university has lost over the years and not just under one umbrella by school.
That excites me, because it tells me that you look at any of the individual college areas, there is a lot of demand in this country and abroad for people with the right skills if they are connected to careers and they can do those jobs and they can do them well. Whether it’s tough areas of investments into new modernized content, into gaming, into adaptive learning or math, there are too many categories to discuss on this call, but I’m very excited about the fact that they’ve identified those areas and we can begin to intelligently invest in them knowing that we will only do that if we’re going to get a return off it to make us more competitive, and I believe those things are going to start to show up over the next year.
Trace Urdan, Wells Fargo Securities, LLC
Great. Thank you.
Greg Cappelli, Chief Executive Officer, Apollo Education Group, Inc.
We’ll get into some more detail too as we move forward and some of them become more mature.
Trace Urdan, Wells Fargo Securities, LLC
Fair enough.
Greg Cappelli, Chief Executive Officer, Apollo Education Group, Inc.
Thanks, Trace.
Operator
There are no further questions at this time. I’ll turn the call back over to Greg Cappelli for closing remarks.
Greg Cappelli, Chief Executive Officer, Apollo Education Group, Inc.
All right. Thank you everybody for joining us early this morning. I can assure you that we are very, very focused on the tasks at hand. We remain very excited about the future both domestically and internationally. Thank you for being with us and we will keep you updated along the way. Take care.
Operator
This concludes today’s conference call. You may now disconnect.
