Brown Mackie College
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Brown Mackie College was a private for-profit college system in the United States. The colleges offered bachelor's degrees, associate degrees, and certificates in programs including early childhood education, information technology, health sciences, and legal studies. Brown Mackie's schools were most recently owned by Education Management Corporation (EDMC).
This article needs to be updated. (August 2015) |
Type | Private for-profit college system |
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Active | 1892 (1892)–2017 (2017) (124–125 years) |
President | Danny Finuf (1995–2016) |
Students | 7,773 (2016)[1] |
Location | , , United States |
Website | brownmackie |
In 2016, 22 of 27 Brown Mackie campuses closed as Brown Mackie's parent company faced major legal and financial problems related to consumer fraud.[1][2][3][4][5] The Akron campus was closed in September 2016 and the remaining campuses were sold to the Dream Center Foundation in 2017.[3][6]
Several Brown Mackie colleges were nationally accredited by the Accrediting Council for Independent Colleges and Schools, which subsequently lost its accreditation power.[7]