Brandman University Becomes UMass Global
By aligning with Brandman, UMass becomes the latest public university to make an aggressive foray into the market for educating and training adult learners, following Purdue University’s purchase of Kaplan University in 2017, the University of Arizona’s acquisition last year of Ashford University and ambitious plans in Missouri, Louisiana and most recently Arkansas. All of them have eyed the massive market of tens of millions of adults who lack a college degree but need education and training to enter or thrive in the workforce, hundreds of thousands of whom are now enrolled at national nonprofit institutions such as Southern New Hampshire University or Western Governors University.
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by Doug Lederman, Inside Higher Ed.