Dive Brief:
- Career Education Corp. is closing its Sanford-Brown Institute in Pittsburgh, PA, the Pittsburgh Business Times reports.
- CEC will do a “teach out” for the downtown Pittsburgh location — no longer enrolling new students and gradually cutting back on its operations — between now and its October 2015 closure.
- Sanford-Brown has 15 full-time and 13 part-time faculty at its Pittsburgh school, with an enrollment of 1,046.
Dive Insight:
CEC spokesman Mark Spencer said local economic and workforce conditions were factors in the decision to close, as well as enrollment levels. Sanford-Brown closed its Wilkins campus, just outside Pittsburgh, this month after completing a teach-out — the company had announced that closing in 2013. CEC's Le Cordon Bleu Institute of Culinary Arts closed its Pittsburgh branch 2012, and this month, Career Education reported that it is now in the process of doing the same for 30 campuses total, with 20 to be shuttered in 2014. The company operates more than 80 post-secondary schools, including American InterContinental University, Brooks Institute, Harrington College of Design, International Academy of Design & Technology, and Le Cordon Bleu North America.
