Company History

Changing students' lives for over a decade.

Corinthian Colleges (CCi) is one of the largest for-profit, post-secondary education companies in the United States and Canada, with more than 105,000 students enrolled as of September 30, 2009. The company operates 100 schools in 25 states and 17 schools in Canada. CCi serves the large and growing segment of the population seeking to acquire career-oriented education. CCi’s schools generally enjoy long operating histories and offer a variety of diploma programs and associates, bachelor’s and master’s degrees. CCi also offers students the opportunity to take classes online through Everest College in Phoenix and Everest University in Florida.

Our company was founded in 1995 and we completed an initial public offering in 1999. As of June 30, 2009, we had approximately 12,500 employees in North America, including 5,200 full-time and part-time faculty members.

Historically, CCi has grown through acquisitions as well as through organic growth. Organic growth consists of opening new branch campuses, remodeling, expanding or relocating existing campuses and adopting curricula into existing colleges.