Capella University
Capella University is a private University in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, which offers exclusively online teaching. It is supported by the Capella Education Company, a company listed on the New York Nasdaq stock company.
The university was founded in 1993 and offers in subjects such as economics, computer science, education, health sciences, social work, psychology, and public safety programs at leading to academic degrees such as the Bachelor, Master, Master of Business Administration, Ph.D. or other doctoral degrees lead. There are approximately 870 online courses and 19 degree programs in 116 fields of specialization. Currently, 19,900 students are enrolled (from all U.S. states and a total of 56 countries). The university has 1040 administrative staff and more than 1,000 teachers. As with the for-profit U.S. universities ( so, for example, University of Phoenix, DeVry University, Walden University, Corinthian Colleges, Strayer University, etc.) usually consists of only a small part of the teaching body of tenured professors, most teach part-time.
Founder of the college was Stephen Shank, former CEO of Tonka Corporation. He developed the idea of creating a college especially for professionals who organized independently of place and time teaching. Shank founded in 1991 the original company, which was later renamed to Capella Education Company. 1993 Dr. Harold Abel came to the company, who had worked at three universities as president. They built the company and established the " Graduate School of America" - today the Capella University. Abel became its first president.
The state of Minnesota gave them the first license in 1997 it came to the accreditation by the Higher Learning Commission, Capella is a member of the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools (NCA ). The very important regional accreditation, which characterizes all reputable universities in the United States was locked.
1999 Capella involved in the U.S. Department of Education Distance Education Demonstration Program, the American Ministry of Education pilot projects tested for Internet -based distance education.
2001 abolished the Capella University, to be counted from the news magazine among the " Best Online Graduate Business Programs." 2003 was nominated for the " 500 Hall of Fame" Capella Education Company business magazine Inc., after the magazine, the company had five consecutive times counted in the list of " America's 500 Fastest - Growing Private Companies".
Already in 2004, Capella had more than 10,000 enrolled online students, a year later graduated from the 5000th student.
2006 was the year of the IPO ( NASDAQ: CPLA ).