Strayer University

Strayer University is a United States-based private, for-profit higher education institution. The university enrolls about 40,000 students through its online learning programs, and at 80 campuses located in 24 U.S. states. The university specializes in degree programs for working adults and offers undergraduate and graduate degrees in subjects such as accounting, business administration, criminal justice, education, health services administration, information technology and public administration. It was founded in 1892 as Strayer's Business College and later became Strayer College, before being granted university status in 1998. Strayer University is accredited by the Middle States Commission on Higher Education.

    

Foundation and early history

Dr. Siebert Irving Strayer founded Strayer's Business College in Baltimore, Maryland in 1892. Strayer established the college to teach business skills to former farm workers,including shorthand, typing and accounting.[4] In its first decade of operations, enrollment at the school gradually increased, attracting students from other states, and in 1904 Strayer opened a branch of the school in Washington, D.C.[1][4]

Enrollment further expanded as demand for trained accountants grew after the passage of the Revenue Act of 1913 and World War I increased the need for government clerks with office skills. During the 1930s, the college was authorized to grant collegiate degrees in accountancy by Washington, D.C.'s board of education. The school founded Strayer Junior College in 1959, when it was given the right to confer two-year degrees. In 1969, the college received the accreditation needed to grant four-year Bachelor of Artsdegrees and was renamed Strayer College

Locations

Online

More than half of the students take all of their courses online, and the entire bachelor's and master's degree programs can be completed via the Internet.[24][25] As of February 2013, of the 48,000 total students, approximately 29,000 took 100 percent of their courses online. Students can also take a fully campus-based program, or take a combination of online and campus-based courses.

Campuses

Strayer University in Morrisville, North Carolina.

The university's headquarters are in Herndon, Virginia[27] with campus locations mainly in the eastern, southern and Midwestern U.S. The university has 80 campuses[29] in both cities and suburban areas[31] located in 24 U.S. states.

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