Piedmont International University and John Wesley University will Merge

Piedmont International University of Winston-Salem, NC and John Wesley University of High Point, NC announce that they will be merging by 2018 and will retain the PIU name.

Additional reporting can be found at the Winston-Salem Journal, "Piedmont International University to merge with John Wesley University in High Point," or at Inside Higher Ed, "John Wesley Merging into Piedmont International."

If you are interested in recent trends for closures and mergers, access College Closures since 2009 in the index at the right of any College History Garden page.  There are separate tabs for non-profit and for-profit closures.  Each tab includes basic information for each institution, i.e., Carnegie Classification, sector, accrediting agency, and the IPEDS unitid.