Brooks College was a

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college in

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and

Sunnyvale Sunnyvale () is a city located in the Santa Clara Valley in northwestern Santa Clara County, California, United States. Sunnyvale lies along the historic El Camino Real and Highway 101 and is bordered by portions of San Jose to the north, ...

, California. Brooks College closed in 2008 after 35 years.

History

Brooks College had two campuses owned by

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: in Long Beach, California, and in Sunnyvale, California. Brooks College was founded in 1964 as Collegiate Inn to provide student housing to

California State University, Long Beach California State University, Long Beach (CSULB), also known in athletics as Long Beach State University (LBSU), is a public teaching-focused institution in Long Beach, California, United States. The 322-acre campus is the second largest in the ...

. It reorganized as Brooks College for Women in 1971. In 1974, the name changed to simply Brooks College. In 2007, Career Education Corporation announced that it would close Brooks College, and began attempting to sell Brooks College because of accreditation problems and "scrutiny by the

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". The Sunnyvale operation closed in June 2008; the Long Beach campus closed in December 2008. A 2009 exposé by

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reporter Steve Croft said Brooks College was "facing allegations that it deceived investors, the federal government, and students, who say they've been taught a very expensive lesson". The property in Long Beach that was leased by Brooks College was sold to the

Foundation for use as CSULB student housing.

References

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