Enrollment

Enrollment decline + system restructuring · Closed

FB-018 · 2026

Environmental work college · Vermont

Sterling College — Vermont’s Smallest College Worked Itself to the End

Enrollment decline + finances · Closed

SG-016 · 2026 pending

Catholic nursing college · Massachusetts

Labouré College of Healthcare — A 134-Year Nursing School Folds Its Programs into a Neighbor

enrollment + finances · Closed

SG-017 · 2026

Catholic college · Massachusetts

Anna Maria College — Eighty Years in Paxton, Closed by an Audit’s “Substantial Doubt”

enrollment cliff + finances · Closed

SG-018 · 2026

Reformed Christian college · Illinois

Trinity Christian College — Sixty-Six Years on a Former Golf Course, Closed by the Math

enrollment cliff + deficits · Closed

SG-019 · 2026

Catholic university · Michigan

Siena Heights University — A Dominican College of 107 Years, Closed by the Arithmetic of Decline

enrollment decline + finances · Closed

SG-011 · 2025

Catholic university · Missouri

Fontbonne University — A Century of Catholic St. Louis, Closed by Financial Exigency

enrollment cliff · Closed

BD-018 · 2025

For-profit business college · New York

Jamestown Business College — A 139-Year Proprietary School Too Small to Carry the Rules

size + expanding regulation · Closed

FB-009 · 2024

Liberal-arts college · New York

Wells College — 156 Years on Cayuga Lake, Closed With a Month’s Notice

Enrollment cliff · Closed

FB-013 · 2024

Liberal-arts college · Vermont

Goddard College — The Progressive Pioneer That Ran Out of Students

Enrollment cliff · Closed

FB-023 · 2024

Health-sciences university · Illinois

Oak Point University — A 110-Year Nursing School That Gave Its Students Three Weeks’ Notice

Enrollment + finances · Closed

FB-024 · 2024

Art & design college · Delaware

Delaware College of Art and Design — The First College the FAFSA Meltdown Helped Kill

Enrollment + finances · Closed

FB-025 · 2024

Career college · Florida

Hodges University — A career college that lost five-sixths of its students in a decade

Enrollment decline · Closed

FB-027 · 2024

Private college · New York

The College of Saint Rose — A century-old college that bought a neighborhood and lost itself

Enrollment + debt · Closed

SG-007 · 2024

Catholic college · Ohio

Notre Dame College — A Century-Old Catholic College Closed by Debt and a Failed Merger

enrollment + finances · Closed

SG-026 · 2024

Baptist university · Pennsylvania

Clarks Summit University — Ninety-Two Years a Baptist School, Closed in Thirty Days

enrollment cliff + finances · Closed

SG-027 · 2024

Catholic college · New Hampshire

Magdalen College of the Liberal Arts — New Hampshire’s Smallest College, Closed at Fifty-One

enrollment cliff + finances · Closed

SG-028 · 2024

Bible college · Illinois

Lincoln Christian University — Eighty Years of Preacher-Training, Closed Debt-Free and on Its Own Terms

enrollment cliff · Closed

FB-028 · 2023

Private college · New York

Medaille University — A 148-Year-Old College Undone by a Merger and a Tax Gamble

Enrollment + failed merger · Closed

SG-009 · 2023

Catholic university · Wisconsin

Cardinal Stritch University — America’s Largest Franciscan University, Emptied in a Decade

enrollment cliff · Closed

SG-030 · 2023

Catholic college · South Dakota

Presentation College — A Prairie Nursing School the Sisters Could No Longer Carry

enrollment + finances · Closed

FB-012 · 2022

Liberal-arts college · Illinois

Lincoln College — The First American College Killed in Part by Ransomware

COVID enrollment + ransomware · Closed

SG-034 · 2021

Baptist women's college · Alabama

Judson College — One of America’s Oldest Women’s Colleges, Closed at 183

enrollment cliff + mounting debt · Closed

FB-008 · 2020

Liberal-arts college · Illinois

MacMurray College — A 174-Year-Old Women’s College That Ran the Deficit to Zero

Deficits + enrollment · Closed

FB-031 · 2020

Art college · Tennessee

Memphis College of Art — An 84-Year-Old Art School That Chose a Slow, Honest Death

Enrollment + real-estate debt · Closed

SG-008 · 2020

Catholic college · Wisconsin

Holy Family College — A 135-Year-Old Franciscan College the Pandemic Pushed Over the Edge

enrollment cliff (COVID-accelerated) · Closed

SG-014 · 2020

Swedenborgian college · Ohio

Urbana University — Johnny Appleseed’s New Church College, Closed by a Branch Office Decision

enrollment decline · Closed

SG-035 · 2020

Bible college · Nebraska

Nebraska Christian College — A Bible College That Merged to Survive, Then Closed Anyway

enrollment collapse · Closed

FB-003 · 2019

Career-focused college · Massachusetts

Newbury College — A Career College That Lost 86 Percent of Its Students

Enrollment cliff · Closed

FB-004 · 2019

Liberal-arts college · Vermont

Southern Vermont College — A Lifeline for First-Generation Students, Cut for Lack of Money

Enrollment + finances · Closed

SG-015 · 2019

Catholic college · Michigan

Marygrove College — A Detroit Catholic College That Died So a Campus Could Be Reborn

enrollment + finances · Closed

SG-006 · 2018

Catholic university · Oregon

Marylhurst University — The Adult-Learning Pioneer the Market Caught Up To

enrollment decline · Closed

SG-037 · 2018

Evangelical college · Nebraska

Grace University — A Bible School That Prayed for Students and Ran Out of Time

enrollment decline + finances · Closed

SG-040 · 2015

Independent Baptist university · Tennessee

Tennessee Temple University — The Fundamentalist Powerhouse That Shrank Into a Footnote of a Larger School

enrollment collapse · Closed

SG-041 · 2015

Catholic career college · Massachusetts

Marian Court College — A Tiny Catholic Commuter School in a President’s Summer Home, Closed by the Math

enrollment + tuition dependence · Closed

SG-044 · 2014

Christian university · Memphis, TN

Victory University — A Bible College Sold to a For-Profit, Then Closed in a Single Spring

enrollment + finances · Closed

FB-034 · 2012

Arts college · New Hampshire

Chester College of New England — An Arts College That Reinvented Itself Into Insolvency

Enrollment + finances · Closed

SG-048 · 2009

Christian liberal-arts college · Oregon

Cascade College — A Borrowed Name, a Subsidized Campus, and Numbers That Never Reached Break-Even

enrollment closed 2000s

enrollment + finances · Closed

SG-052 · 2002

Catholic college · New Hampshire

Notre Dame College of New Hampshire — A Teachers’ College That Ran Out of Teachers to Sell

enrollment closed 2000s

enrollment + finances · Closed

SG-053 · 2000

Catholic women's college · Vermont

Trinity College of Vermont — A Women’s College the State University Bought for a Campus

enrollment closed 2000s

enrollment + debt · Closed

SG-057 · 1992

Catholic college · Kansas

St. Mary of the Plains College — The Sisters Built It Twice; the Emptying Plains Unmade It

enrollment closed 1990s

enrollment + finances · Closed

SG-063 · 1981

Catholic women's college · New York

Ladycliff College — A Women’s College on the Cliffs, Bought by the Army It Faced

enrollment closed 1980s

enrollment decline + finances · Closed

SG-064 · 1978

Catholic women's college · New Hampshire

Mount St. Mary College (New Hampshire) — A Marble Mansion of a Women’s College, Emptied by Coeducation

enrollment + finances · Closed

FB-043 · 1976

Women's college · New York

Finch College — A White-Glove Finishing School the Sixties Left Behind

Enrollment + thin endowment · Closed

SG-066 · 1974

Catholic sisters' college · Missouri

Marillac College — A College Built to Educate Nuns, Closed When the Novices Stopped Coming

enrollment decline (fewer women religious) + finances · Closed

FB-046 · 1972

Women's college · New Hampshire

Pierce College for Women — A Small Women’s College That Closed So Quietly Even Its Size Went Unrecorded