The Chronicle of Higher Education

For-Profit Company Buys South U.

By ELIZABETH F. FARRELL

Education Management Corporation announced plans last month to buy the four campuses of South University for $50-million. The deal is the latest in a series of recent purchases made by large for-profit education companies attempting to broaden their course offerings in the health sciences.

In the largest such transaction, Career Education Corporation announced in...

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