Coleman University Announces it Will be Closing

Coleman University in San Diego, California announced last week that it will be closing.  Coleman was founded in 1963 as the Automation Institute of San Diego.  It later changed the name to Coleman College and then to Coleman University after graduate programs were added in 1982.  Gary Robbins reported in The San Diego Union Tribune on July 30, 2018, "San Diego's Coleman University closing after 55 years." 

Matt Hoffman reporting for KPBS on August 3, 2018, "San Diego's Coleman University is Closing After 55 Years" includes a short audio clip.

The Coleman University website offers a fact sheet on the closure, answers for frequently asked questions, and other information for students.

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