mounted thereby minimizing costs and reducing the need for special planning for fixture mounting capability in order to most effectively utilize a universal mounting plate configured according to the invention a portion of a housing 12 of the fixture 10 is configured to be rapidly and simply mountable to the fixture 10 the universal mounting plate of the invention is seen in fig1 in exploded relation to the fixture 10 and is also seen in fig2 through 11 the plate being generally referred to as the mounting plate 14 while the housing 12 of the fixture 10 can be formed of a variety of materials it is particularly convenient to form the housing 12 of a polymeric material that is a material such as is conventionally referred to as a 34 plastic 34 material for a variety of reasons in particular a 34 plastic 34 material can be formed in the manner of rear face 16 to integrally include structure which engages and cooperates with the mounting plate 14 to mount said fixture 10 in particular channels 18 are defined on either side of the fixture 10 by integral elevated ribs 20 which are substantially rectangular in cross section the ribs not only define the channels 18 but also impart additional strength to the housing 12 a major planar surface 22 is formed centrally of the rear face 16 of the housing 12 between the elevated ribs 20 an upper portion of the planar surface 22 has a collar 24 formed therein intended to receive a conduit not shown which can carry electrical wiring not shown into the interior of.