Spencerian Business College is the name of various

business school A business school is a university-level institution that confers degrees in business administration or management. A business school may also be referred to as school of management, management school, school of business administration, o ...

s established in the 19th century by

Platt R. Spencer Platt Rogers Spencer (also Platt R. Spencer) (November 7, 1800 – May 16, 1864) was the originator of Spencerian penmanship, a popular system of cursive handwriting. He was a teacher and active in the business school movement. Early life Sp ...

, his son Robert C. Spencer, or by Enos Spencer (whose relation to the other two Spencers is unclear), sometimes in association with the Bryant & Stratton chain, sometimes in rivalry, sometimes both. These included: *Spencerian Commercial School, later

Spencerian College Spencerian College was a private, for-profit career college in Louisville, Kentucky, Louisville and Lexington, Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky. It was founded in 1892 as the Spencerian Commercial School, a private for-profit business school, by Enos ...

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, founded by Enos Spencer. In 2018, its programs were merged into the College of Allied Health and the College of Nursing of

Sullivan University Sullivan University is a private for-profit university based in Louisville, Kentucky. It is licensed to offer certificates and diplomas, associate's, bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees by the Kentucky Council on Postsecondary Education and ...

. *Spencerian Business College (Milwaukee), originally a Bryant & Stratton affiliate, first managed by Robert Spencer, then taken over by him; also known as National Spencerian Business College; eventually merged into the School of Business of

Concordia University Wisconsin Concordia University Wisconsin (CUW) is a private Lutheran university in Mequon, Wisconsin. It is part of the eight-member Concordia University System operated by the Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod (LCMS). The university is a coeducational in ...

in 1974 *Spencerian Business College (Cleveland, Ohio), originally Folsom's Mercantile College in 1848, it became Spencerian Business College in 1876. In 1942 it merged with Dyke School of Commerce, eventually becoming Chancellor University before closing in 2013.. *Spencerian Business College (Washington, D.C.), founded in 1864 as Washington Business College *Spencerian Business School in

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*Spencerian College, one of the former names of Chancellor University in

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