| 1 | | More than a quarter million people have earned a Kaplan credential. | | Kaplan Higher Education is proud to have graduated more than 275,000 students, helping them advance in their jobs or start a new career. Founded just over ten years ago, about 100,000 students are enrolled at Kaplan Higher Education today. | |
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| 2 | | Kaplan Higher Education serves students across the U.S., offering hundreds of academic programs. | | Through Kaplan University online and its ground-based campuses, Kaplan Higher Education offers students more than 150 programs—including certificate and diploma programs, bachelor's and master's degrees, and a juris doctor degree. Subject areas range from allied health and nursing to business, criminal justice, information technology and paralegal and legal studies. Kaplan Higher Education has campuses and Kaplan University Learning Centers—which combine online and classroom instruction—in 22 states. Kaplan University enrolls online students from across the country and the globe. | |
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| 3 | | Kaplan is a world leader in nursing education. | | Kaplan University's School of Nursing is the fourth-largest educator of nurses in the United States. More than 70,000 students choose Kaplan each year, to pursue their nursing training, either in a degree or diploma program at Kaplan Higher Education or through a Kaplan Test Prep professional exam preparation course. | |
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| 4 | | Kaplan Higher Education meets rigorous accreditation standards. | | Kaplan Higher Education's academic programs meet rigorous quality reviews and are accredited by national and regional bodies and professional and industry associations. Kaplan University is accredited by The Higher Learning Commission (www.ncahlc.org) and is a member of the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools. Each of our campus-based schools is separately accredited by one of the following national or regional accrediting agencies approved by the U.S. Department of Education: New England Association of Schools and Colleges; Southern Association of Colleges and Schools; Council on Occupational Education; Accrediting Commission of Career Schools and Colleges; and Accrediting Council for Independent Colleges and Schools. | |
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| 5 | | Only Kaplan Higher Education lets students enroll before making a tuition commitment. | | The Kaplan Commitment allows eligible new students to enroll in and experience first-hand an actual college course for four to five weeks. If the students decide that Kaplan is not for them, or they are not ready for college-level work, the students can withdraw without any financial obligation other than a nominal administrative fee. | |
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| 6 | | Kaplan Higher Education has nearly double the graduation rate for non-traditional students than traditional colleges. | | Among all undergraduate students with two or more "risk factors" (as defined by the Department of Education), Kaplan Higher Education has a 32% graduation rate versus 17% at public and non-profit schools. When you compare students with two or more risk factors in programs of two years or less (i.e. certificate or diploma programs), Kaplan Higher Education has a 58% graduation rate versus 30% at public and non-profit schools. | |
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| 7 | | Kaplan Higher Education serves students at a lower cost to taxpayers. | | The annual net cost per student for a Kaplan education is half of what it would cost to provide that program at a two-year public institution and a quarter of the cost at a four-year public university, which are heavily government subsidized. | |
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| 8 | | Kaplan Higher Education's achievements show that America could produce more graduates at a lower cost. | | If all of America's college students with at least one "risk factor" went to schools with Kaplan Higher Education's success metrics, the country would produce an additional 800,000 college graduates each year, and the cost to America's taxpayers would be $41 billion less. | |
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| 9 | | Kaplan started the first online law school, and is among the largest providers of legal education courses. | | Concord Law School—the first wholly online law school in the U.S.—is the country's second largest part-time law program. Additionally, Kaplan University is among the largest providers of paralegal programs, and Kaplan Test Prep is the nation's largest provider of law school entrance exam preparation and second-largest provider of bar exam preparation programs. | |
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| 10 | | Kaplan Higher Education offers special discounts and support programs for America's active duty military students and veterans. | | In 2010, Kaplan University enrolled 11,000 military personnel (active duty, veterans, and their spouses) and has more than 2,000 military alumni. We offer special discounts and support programs that meet the need for flexibility in military lives, which can include frequent redeployments and other changes. | |
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| 11 | | Begun more than 70 years ago, Kaplan is a global education company. | | Begun in 1938 as a small, local test preparation business, Kaplan is now a global education company still dedicated to founder Stanley Kaplan's mission of expanding educational opportunities. Today, Kaplan offers a wide range of educational programs beyond its higher education offerings in the U.S. Long a leader and pioneer in the Test Prep business, Kaplan serves more than one million students worldwide, has operations in 30 countries, and offers professional training, language instruction and higher education programs in Europe, Asia, and Australia. | |
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