April 1, 2005

Investments Growing in Education Firms

By GOLDIE BLUMENSTYK

Investors poured more than $161-million into private companies that run colleges for a profit, and into other businesses in the higher-education industry in 2004, an amount that was nearly double what investors put up in 2003, according to a report released last week by Eduventures Inc.

Those investments accounted for 61 percent of all publicly disclosed investments in the education industry in 2004, Eduventures said.

Eduventures, a consulting company in Boston, based its

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