BD-017 · 2025
For-profit art college · Connecticut
Paier College — A 79-Year Art School Undone by Mold, Debt, and a Lost Accreditation
lost accreditation · Closed
2025
2022
BD-019 · 2022
For-profit university · Virginia
Stratford University — A For-Profit That Outlived Its Accreditor by Three Weeks
accreditor decertified · Closed
2019
SG-036 · 2019
Bible university · Ohio
Cincinnati Christian University — A Bible College That Lost Its Accreditation and Quit Mid-Year
lost accreditation + governance failures · Closed
2018
SG-005 · 2018
Seventh-day Adventist college · Massachusetts
Atlantic Union College — A 136-Year Adventist College That Closed Twice
lost accreditation · Closed
BD-006 · 2018
For-profit chain · USA
Virginia College — Seventy Campuses That Closed Mid-Term in One Week
lost accreditation + abrupt collapse · Closed
2017
BD-021 · 2017
For-profit law school · North Carolina
Charlotte School of Law — It Sold a Bar Card to Students Who Couldn’t Pass
ABA probation + aid cutoff · Closed
2014
SG-042 · 2014
Liberal-arts college · Bristol, VA
Virginia Intermont College — A Century-and-a-Half Women’s College, Closed When the Accreditor Ran Out of Patience
lost accreditation + finances · Closed
SG-043 · 2014
Baptist university · Mayfield, KY
Mid-Continent University — A Baptist College That Lent Students Money the Government Would Not Repay
federal-aid cutoff + insolvency · Closed
2013
SG-004 · 2013
Episcopal HBCU · Virginia
Saint Paul’s College — A 125-Year-Old HBCU That Lost Its Accreditation and Its Life
lost accreditation · Closed
2010
SG-047 · 2010
Lutheran college · Nebraska
Dana College — A Danish-Lutheran college killed by the for-profit sale meant to save it
failed for-profit sale + lost accreditation · Closed
2008
FB-015 · 2008
Alternative college · California
New College of California — A Radical College That Lost Its Accreditation and Then Itself
Lost accreditation · Closed
2005
SG-050 · 2005
HBCU junior college · West Point, MS
Mary Holmes College — An HBCU That Lost Its Accreditation and Its Future
lost accreditation + finances · Closed
1982
SG-061 · 1982
HBCU · Mississippi
Mississippi Industrial College — A Bishop’s College, Closed Across the Road From the One That Outlived It
lost accreditation + finances · Closed
1973
FB-045 · 1973
Liberal-arts college · Iowa
Parsons College — The Boom School That Sold Second Chances Until the Accreditors Closed the Window
Lost accreditation + debt · Closed