Branford Hall Career Institute was a for-profit career college, owned by Trigram Education Partners, with campuses in
Branford, and
Southington
Southington is a town in Hartford County, Connecticut, United States. As of the 2020 United States Census, it had a population of 43,501. Southington contains the villages of Marion, Milldale, and Plantsville.
Geography
Southington is situ ...
, Connecticut;
Amityville, New York
Amityville () is a village near the Town of Babylon in Suffolk County, on the South Shore of Long Island, in New York. The population was 9,523 at the 2010 census.
History
Huntington settlers first visited the Amityville area in 1653 du ...
;
Jersey City and
Parsippany,
New Jersey
New Jersey is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern regions of the United States. It is bordered on the north and east by the state of New York; on the east, southeast, and south by the Atlantic Ocean; on the west by the Delaware ...
. According to the US Department of Education, "BHCI’s last day of educational instruction was September 25, 2020, which serves as its official closure date for purposes of the federal student aid programs." Students may apply for a closed school discharge of their federal loans.
History
In August 2020, the US Department of Education cut off Title IV funds to the schools.
In January 2021, Branford Hall in Branford, Connecticut was stripped of its accreditation by ACCET.
In a letter dated January 11, 2021, Trigram Education Partners (the owners of Branford Hall) notified students, staff, and faculty that the Amityville, New York campus was closed by the Bureau of Proprietary School's Supervision (BPSS) due to lack of and inability to acquire funding.
In February 2021, Branford Hall in Jersey City and Parsippany New Jersey lost their accreditation from the Accrediting Commission for Career Schools and Colleges (ACCSC).
See also
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Harris School of Business
References
External links
Official website
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Windsor, Connecticut
Private universities and colleges in Connecticut
Two-year colleges in the United States
Universities and colleges in Hartford County, Connecticut
Universities and colleges in New Haven County, Connecticut
Private universities and colleges in New York (state)
Private universities and colleges in Massachusetts
Private universities and colleges in New Jersey