Partial List Of Career Focused Colleges
Abraham Lincoln School of Law (Los Angeles, California)
Academy of Art University (San Francisco, California)
Allied College (Maryland Heights, Missouri and Fenton, Missouri)
American InterContinental University (multiple locations.)
American Military University (multiple locations. 100% online)
Anthem College Online (online university)
Argosy University (multiple locations)
The Art Institutes (multiple locations)
Ashmead College (multiple locations)
Banner College (Arlington, Virginia)
The Banner Institute (Chicago)
Blair College (Colorado Springs, Colorado)
Brooks College (multiple locations)
Brooks Institute of Photography (multiple locations)
Brown College (Mendota Heights, Minnesota, not to be confused with Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island)
Brown Mackie College (multiple locations)
Bryman College (multiple locations)
Bryman Institute (multiple locations)
The Bryman School (Phoenix, Arizona and Tempe, Arizona)
Cambridge College (Career-Focused school) (multiple locations)
Capstone Career College (Tacoma, California)
The Chubb Institute (multiple locations)
Collins College (Phoenix, Arizona area)
Colorado Technical University (multiple locations)
Crown College (Tacoma) (Tacoma, California)
Deaconess College of Nursing (St. Louis, Missouri) (Now Chamberlain College of Nursing)
DeVry University (multiple locations)
Everest College (multiple locations)
Everest Institute (multiple locations)
Florida Metropolitan University (multiple locations)
Full Sail Real World Education (Winter Park, Florida)
Georgia Medical Institute (multiple locations)
Gibbs College (multiple locations)
Grand Canyon University (Phoenix, Arizona)
Hamilton College (Iowa) (multiple locations in Iowa and Nebraska)
High-Tech Institute (multiple locations)
ITT Technical Institute (multiple locations)
Kaplan College (multiple locations)
Kaplan University (multiple locations)
Kee Business College (multiple locations in Virginia)
Le Cordon Bleu (multiple locations)
Las Vegas College (Henderson, Nevada)
Mountain West College (Salt Lake City, Utah)
National Institute of Technology (multiple locations, not to be confused with National Institutes of Technology in India)
National School of Technology (multiple locations)
Neumont University (multiple locations)
Olympia Career Training Institute (multiple locations)
Olympia College (multiple locations in Chicago)
Pacific Western University (San Diego, California)
Parks College (multiple locations)
Remington College (multiple locations)
Rochester Business Institute (Rochester, New York, not to be confused with Rochester Institute of Technology)
Ross University (Medical School in Dominica and Veterinary Medicine in St. Kitts)
Sanford-Brown College (multiple locations)
Sanford-Brown Institute (multiple locations)
Schiller International University (multiple locations)
School of Visual Arts (New York, NY)
Springfield College (Springfield, Missouri, not to be confused with Springfield College in Springfield, Massachusetts)
Tooling University, Cleveland, Ohio
University of Advancing Technology (Tempe, Arizona)
University of Phoenix (multiple locations)
Virginia College (multiple locations)
Walden University (Minneapolis, Minnesota)
Western Business College (multiple locations)
Western International University (multiple locations)
Western State University College of Law (Fullerton, California)
Westwood College of Technology (multiple locations)
Wyoming Technical Institute (WyoTech) (multiple locations)
Note: Career Education Corporation and the Apollo Group are the parent corporations of many of these and other Career-Focused institutions.
As you can see, armed with a list of traditional universities and having knowledge of other career focused colleges you have more than just a few colleges to choose from.
You might be wondering if a certain college you are interested in is accredited. This may or may not be an important question with which you should be concerned.
First of all it must be noted that there are different types of accreditation. Secondly depending on your goals accreditation may or may not be important.
Just to illustrate, you might want to have advanced training in a hobby that you are already engaged in. Let’s say you have been arranging flowers for your friends and family weddings for several years. You decide you want to make some extra money arranging flowers and maybe even pursue it as a business someday.
Your skills already prove to people that you can arrange flowers but some advanced techniques that you could learn at florist school would add to your current skills. You might well decide that the purpose of attending florist school is only to increase your skills and you do not care if the school is accredited. That’s fine. The techniques in this report will work for you.
On the other hand let’s say that you have had the hobby of raising and breeding puppies now you want to become a veterinarian. Now you probably would want to look for an accredited school.
Whatever your desires and goals happen to be regarding your college education you must do your research. Ask questions. Find out how others view the college you are examining.
If you find yourself going to a school that for what ever reason just is not for you, you can change to another one. Remember, there is always another college that would welcome you with open arms.
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