// about
About Borrower Defense
Borrower Defense is a catalog of for-profit college chains that collapsed — Corinthian, ITT Tech, the Art Institutes, and the rest — built on federal aid and predatory recruiting, undone by fraud and accreditation loss. Each case is traced from the founding to the dated closure, and to the borrowers it left behind.
What you'll find here
- The institution, what it was and whom it served, the year founded, and the year it ended — stated up front
- How long it lived and how big it got — the lifespan and peak enrollment — in a four-cell stat bar
- A documented timeline, a three-act account, and exactly five contributing factors
- Why it ended and the exact fate — closed, merged, absorbed, acquired, saved, or revived
- Transferable lessons, and real references from the closure record and named higher-education journalism
Borrower Defense is part of Alma Mater — a reference network on closed colleges and universities: the institutions that shut down, lost accreditation, or were absorbed out of existence, each resolved by the documented date the institution ended.