Despite MARTA's suburban defeat, however, its progress continued apace. After its establishment, MARTA purchased assets of the old Atlanta Transit System, a privately owned company that had operated bus routes in the city. With generous federal assistance and a 1 percent special sales tax collected in Fulton and DeKalb counties and the city of Atlanta, rail construction began in 1975.
Publish your University Ranking. Established in 1983, University of Advancing Technology is a for-profit private higher education institution located in the the urban setting of the large town of Tempe (population range of 50,000-249,999 inhabitants), Arizona.
At Advancing Tech, tuition costs $16,330, which is slightly more expensive than other private (for-profit) graduate institutions in the country. University of Advancing Technology is more expensive than the average private for-profit 4 year college in Arizona ($15,900). Price inflation causes the value of a dollar to fall over time, so the same dollar amount in two different years will usually represent different amounts of purchasing power.