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.
There is a University of Kentucky College of Engineering Paducah campus located on the WKCTC campus. The college is also the site for the Challenger Learning Center at Paducah and the Emerging Technology Center. Murray State University-Paducah offers approximately 20 bachelor's and master's degree programs.