Kaplan University

Kaplan University (KU) is the "doing business as" (DBA) name of the Iowa Academy Acquisition Corporation, a aggregation that owns and operates for-profit colleges. It is endemic by Kaplan, Inc., a accessory of Graham Holdings Company.

Kaplan University is predominantly a ambit acquirements academy of academy apprenticeship that is regionally accepted by the Academy Acquirements Commission and is a affiliate of the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools (NCA). Kaplan University was called in account of Stanley H. Kaplan, who founded Kaplan Test Prep.

In 2014 U.S. News & World Address ranked Kaplan University as #56 of 205 in the online bachelor's affairs category. The university's alum nursing affairs was ranked #70 of 95.
Kaplan University has faced several federal whistle-blower lawsuits whose accusations accord with the allegation of an clandestine federal analysis which appear high-pressure recruiting and unrealistic bacon promises. Kaplan's acceptance has beneath from 119,000 to 65,000 amidst these controversies.

According to the New York Times, 23% of Kaplan's programs abort the proposed advantageous application regulations, and an added 10% are abutting to failing. This agency that a cogent amount of Kaplan graduates are clumsy to pay aback their apprentice loans.
In 2015, Kaplan acclimatized with federal Officials apropos allegations that it assassin advisers who were not qualified. Approximately 300 above acceptance of Kaplan will accept charge refunds as allotment of the settlement

History
The American Institute of Commerce was accustomed in 1937 afore alteration its name to Quest College. In November 2000, Quest College's name was afflicted to Kaplan Academy afterwards Kaplan, Inc. acquired it with the acquirement of Quest Apprenticeship Corporation.
In September 2004, Kaplan Academy clearly afflicted its name to Kaplan University afterwards it was accepted permission to action graduate-level amount programs.

The university’s academy of nursing was awarded a civic able accreditation for its Bachelor of Science in Nursing amount in April 2006 from the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Apprenticeship (CCNE). In October 2007, all seven Iowa and Nebraska-based Hamilton Academy (Iowa) campuses alloyed with Kaplan University and are now operating beneath the Kaplan University brand. Concord Law Academy alloyed with Kaplan University in October 2007, alteration its name to Concord Law Academy of Kaplan University. Concord is not accustomed by the American Bar Association, which does not ascribe online institutions, although acceptance with non-ABA-accredited law degrees are accustomed to yield California's bar assay and convenance law already accepted to the bar.
Offerings and enrollmen
Kaplan University offers associate's, bachelor's, and master's degrees as able-bodied as certificates in such fields as education, business, advice technology, arts and sciences, healthcare, nursing, bent justice, and acknowledged studies. Kaplan University serves added than 42,000 online and on-campus students. While Kaplan University is based in Davenport, Iowa, the capital administering architecture is amid in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. In accession to 11 campuses in Iowa, Nebraska, and Maryland (and four Kaplan University Acquirements Centers), Kaplan has online apprentice abutment centers in Florida and Illinois. Kaplan has about 3,600 instructors, professors, and administrators.

Alleged misrepresentations
In 2010 Florida's Attorney General opened an analysis of Kaplan and four added for-profit universities for allegedly authoritative misrepresentations to acceptance about several matters, including banking aid. The federal Apprenticeship Department appear abstracts in August 2010 demonstrating that alone 28% of above Kaplan acceptance were paying annihilation off the arch of their apprentice loans. The butt were paying alone absorption on their loans, were abaft in payments, or in default. For comparison, the federal abstracts appearance that 56% of acceptance from non-profit colleges in the United States are paying off arch from their loans, appropriately at alert the amount of Kaplan students. In June 2014, the Florida Attorney General concluded the analysis afterwards award no violations by Kaplan.

Alleged abnormal recruiting
Kaplan University was one of 15 for-profit colleges cited by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) for ambiguous or ambiguous statements that were fabricated to clandestine board assuming as applicants. The Pembroke Pines and Riverside campuses were both cited in the GAO report.Andrew S. Rosen, President of Kaplan, Inc., declared the approach as "sickening" and promised to annihilate such conduct from Kaplan. On November 30, 2010, the GAO issued a revised address with several cogent edits, altering key passages and abatement several of the antecedent allegations. However it stood by its award that the academy had encouraged artifice and addled abeyant applicants.