Sept. 25 (UPI) --The Art Institutes, a nationwide chain of eight privately held, post-secondary colleges focusing on creative careers, has abruptly closed its doors, leaving its students in the dark.

The Art Institutes ... had on schools teaching hands-on and equipment-intensive programs such as culinary arts and fashion design.” When the announcement went wide, the Art Institutes’s ...

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That includes The Art Institutes of Austin, Dallas, Houston and San Antonio, as well as four other schools ... to determine how these closures affect international students' visa status and ...

Problems only grew after a faith-based nonprofit called Dream Center Education Holdings acquired the schools in 2017. After settling a class-action lawsuit that said that four Art Institutes were ...

with more than 150,000 students studying fields such as culinary arts, health sciences and education at 106 locations in 32 states and Canada. It owned the Art Institutes, Argosy University ...

Art Institute campuses have shuttered nationwide, including The Art Institutes International in Kansas ... owned about 50 of those schools. “This institution falsified data, knowingly misled ...

Miami International ... two of eight Art Institute schools. The other six campuses are in Atlanta, Austin, Dallas, Houston and San Antonio in Texas, and Virginia Beach. The Art Institutes ...

Various Art Institute studies included forms of design, digital media, culinary arts ... Ultimately, The Art Institutes left borrowers with high amounts of debt that the schools’ falsely promise ...