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Website. www.brightwood.edu. Brightwood College, formerly Kaplan College, was a system of for-profit colleges in the United States, owned and operated by Education Corporation of America. Main qualifications offered included health, business, criminal justice, information technology, nursing and professional training (trades) programs. [1]
Birmingham, Alabama-based Education Corp. of America said it was closing schools operating as Virginia College, Brightwood College, Brightwood Career Institute, Ecotech Institute and Golf Academy ...
Education Corporation of America, headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama, was a privately held company that operated proprietary colleges across the United States. Included were three schools with 31 campuses, plus one online school and four affiliated businesses. The schools abruptly announced their closing before next semester, after ECA was ...
The schools are owned by Birmingham, Alabama-based Education Corp. of America (ECA), which runs more than 75 campuses across the U.S. A statement on ECA's student information page announced the December 2018 closure of its campuses, including those operating as Brightwood College, Brightwood Career Institute, Ecotech Institute, Golf Academy of America and Virginia College.
But the disruptions created by college closures have a history of derailing students’ educations. Nationally, as many as half of students whose campuses close don’t resume their studies, according to the State Higher Education Executive Officers Association, whose data surveys both nonprofit and for-profit schools, including two-year colleges.
Katherine Anderson trekked from Texas to Philadelphia last year for a college program she couldn’t find anywhere else, combining the music business, entrepreneurship and technology. The closure ...
Burrell College of Osteopathic Medicine – Las Cruces, New Mexico. California Miramar University – San Diego, California (formerly known as Pacific Western University) California Northstate University College of Medicine – Elk Grove, California. Capella University – Minneapolis, Minnesota and online.
For instance, between 2010 and 2020 around 246,000 student loan borrowers were enrolled at 1,100 schools that closed. 43% of them did not complete their program before the closure and about 86% of ...