McNally Smith College of Music will Close

Minnesota Public Radio offered details surrounding the closure of McNally Smith College of Music in a post on December 15, 2107, "McNally Smith president says financing failure forced music school's closure."  The reporting by Solvejg Wastvedt includes an audio clip of an interview with President Harry Chalmiers.

McNally Smith College of Music was founded in 1985 and the small for-profit institution was located in St. Paul, MN.

The Minneapolis Star-Tribune published reporting on the closure by Liz Sawyer on December 16, 2017 in "Emotions run high as McNally Smith College of Music graduates final class."

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.