FB-002 · 2019
Liberal-arts college · Vermont
Green Mountain College — The Greenest College in America Could Not Pay Its Bills
Enrollment + no endowment · Closed
2019
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
FB-005 · 2019
Liberal-arts college · New York
The College of New Rochelle — A 115-Year-Old College Undone By Its Own Books
Financial fraud + debt · Closed
FB-032 · 2019
Art & craft college · Oregon
Oregon College of Art and Craft — A 112-Year-Old Craft School That Spent Its Endowment to Death
Insolvency + failed merger · 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-036 · 2019
Bible university · Ohio
Cincinnati Christian University — A Bible College That Lost Its Accreditation and Quit Mid-Year
lost accreditation + governance failures · Closed
BD-005 · 2019
For-profit chain · USA
Argosy University — A Psychology Chain a Charity Bankrupted, Then Robbed Its Students
Dream Center collapse + withheld student aid · Closed
2018
FB-001 · 2018
Liberal-arts college · Massachusetts
Mount Ida College — A 119-Year-Old College That Closed With Six Weeks’ Notice
Debt + enrollment · Closed
SG-002 · 2018
Lutheran college · Alabama
Concordia College Alabama — The Only Black Lutheran College in America, Closed in Selma
enrollment + finances · Closed
SG-005 · 2018
Seventh-day Adventist college · Massachusetts
Atlantic Union College — A 136-Year Adventist College That Closed Twice
lost accreditation · 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
BD-006 · 2018
For-profit chain · USA
Virginia College — Seventy Campuses That Closed Mid-Term in One Week
lost accreditation + abrupt collapse · Closed
BD-015 · 2018
For-profit chain · USA (Midwest)
Vatterott College — A Midwest Trade Chain That Locked Its Doors at 4 p.m.
aid restriction + abrupt closure · Closed
AB-003 · 2018
Education college · Massachusetts
Wheelock College — The Kindergarten College Folded Into a Research University in 2018
merger (Boston University) · Merged
AB-013 · 2018
Public university system · Georgia
The University System of Georgia — A Decade of Merging Colleges Out of Existence
state-system consolidation · Merged
AB-015 · 2018
Public two-year system · Wisconsin
The University of Wisconsin Colleges — Thirteen Campuses Absorbed, Then Quietly Closed
system restructuring (enrollment decline) · Absorbed
2017
SG-003 · 2017
Catholic college · Indiana
Saint Joseph’s College — A Century-Old Catholic College Sunk by $100 Million in Bills
debt + deferred maintenance · Closed
SG-038 · 2017
Catholic university · Oklahoma
St. Gregory’s University — Oklahoma’s Oldest College, Undone by a Loan That Never Came
debt + enrollment + denied USDA loan · Closed
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
2016
FB-006 · 2016
Liberal-arts college · New York
Dowling College — A Long Island College That Closed Three Days After It Said It Would
Debt + enrollment · Closed
FB-007 · 2016
Alternative liberal-arts college · Vermont
Burlington College — A Tiny College That Bought Too Much Land
Debt (land purchase) · Closed
SG-039 · 2016
Catholic college · Kentucky
St. Catharine College — A Dominican College That Sued Washington and Lost Everything
federal aid sanction + construction debt · Closed
BD-002 · 2016
For-profit chain · USA
ITT Technical Institute — A 40,000-Student Chain That Died in a Single Day
federal-aid ban + accreditation/fraud · Closed
BD-004 · 2016
For-profit chain · USA
Westwood College — It Sold a Police Career Its Degree Couldn’t Deliver
deceptive program claims · Closed
BD-007 · 2016
For-profit chain · USA
Globe University — A 131-Year-Old School Killed by a Fraudulent Degree
fraud finding + aid cutoff · Closed
BD-008 · 2016
For-profit chain · USA
Marinello Schools of Beauty — A 111-Year-Old Beauty Chain the Government Switched Off in a Weekend
federal-aid cutoff (aid violations) · Closed
BD-009 · 2016
For-profit chain · USA
Le Cordon Bleu — A French Cooking Name Americans Borrowed Against, Then Lost
regulation + corporate exit · Closed
BD-010 · 2016
For-profit school · California
Brooks Institute — A Famous Photography School That Became a Borrower-Defense Test Case
corporate exit + abrupt closure · Closed
BD-012 · 2016
For-profit chain · USA
Sanford-Brown — A 150-Year-Old Name Wound Down When Its Owner Walked Away
corporate exit (CEC) · Closed
BD-014 · 2016
For-profit chain · USA
Brown Mackie College — A 20-Campus Chain That Died When Its Parent Did
EDMC collapse · Closed
2015
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
BD-001 · 2015
For-profit chain · USA
Corinthian Colleges — A For-Profit Giant That Sold Debt and Bogus Job Numbers
fraud + federal-aid cutoff · Closed
2014
FB-033 · 2014
Two-year college · New Hampshire
Lebanon College — A Downtown Two-Year College That Ran Out of Gas
Insolvency · Closed
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
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
BD-022 · 2014
For-profit career college · Texas
Anamarc College — A Family-Run Career School Felled by an Embezzlement at Home
insolvency + alleged embezzlement · Closed
BD-023 · 2014
For-profit chain · Arizona
Anthem College — A 41-Campus Chain That Closed by Bankruptcy in Forty-Eight Hours
bankruptcy + federal-aid cutoff · 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
2012
FB-034 · 2012
Arts college · New Hampshire
Chester College of New England — An Arts College That Reinvented Itself Into Insolvency
Enrollment + finances · Closed
SG-045 · 2012
Methodist junior college · Texas
Lon Morris College — Texas’s oldest two-year college, run aground by its own growth
insolvency + bankruptcy · Closed
2011
SG-046 · 2011
Pentecostal university · California
Bethany University — The Assemblies of God’s oldest college, closed in a single sentence
debt + enrollment decline · Closed
AB-025 · 2011
Methodist university · Tennessee
Lambuth University — A 168-Year Methodist College Whose Campus Became a Public Branch
enrollment + lost accreditation · Acquired
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
BD-013 · 2010
For-profit seminar venture · USA
Trump University — A “University” That Was Never Accredited and Never a School
fraud (never accredited) · Closed