On November 20, 2014, Corinthian Colleges Inc. announced it would sell 56 Everest and WyoTech campuses to the Education Credit Management Corporation (ECMC). Unfortunately, the deal announced leaves many questions unanswered. Here’s what we do know:
- ECMC will purchase all Everest and WyoTech schools that are based outside of California. For a full list of the schools ECMC will buy, click here. And for more information on why ECMC did not buy California schools, click here.
- ECMC will form a nonprofit education entity called Zenith Education Group that will operate the schools.
- The sale is expected to be finalize by January 5th, 2015.
- For most students at these schools, the sale will not impact their ability to continue their program.
- ECMC has pledged to lower tuition by 20%.
We will alert you when we have more information about how this deal affects you, and what information you need to know. But until we have more specifics, Higher Ed, Not Debt is concerned that the deal does not put student’s first. Higher Ed, Not Debt released the statement about the deal.
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