The University of Phoenix is a private university with campuses throughout the United States and in British Columbia, Canada. They offer courses in business, information technology, health care services and others. They offer low wages and standardized courses as a means to keep costs low and make very high profits. They are looking to expand internationally and they use their clout as members of the US Based National Committee for International Trade in Education (NCITE) to do so. NCITE is an organization which, as a member body of the US Coalition of Services Industries, pushes for easy cross-border trade in Education through use of trade agreements such as the World Trade Organization’s (WTO) General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS).