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Arizona State Board for Private Postsecondary Education
The Board licenses and regulates 195 private postsecondary educational institutions operating vocational and degree programs. These private universities, colleges, career colleges, and vocational schools annually serve approximately 321,000 students. Formerly, students were only Arizona residents, however, with e-learning, Arizona schools now provide training to students across the nation and around the world. The Board acts on license applications, determines compliance, investigates complaints and violations, takes disciplinary action, confiscates and retains student educational records from closed institutions, provides students with access to their educational records, and administers the Student Tuition Recovery Fund, which provides financial restitution to students injured by private postsecondary institutional closures.
Mandatory State Furlough Days: The State Board office will be closed on the following days:
July 23, 2010 July 22, 2011
August 20, 2010 August 19, 2011
September 17, 2010 September 16, 2011
November 26, 2010 November 25, 2011
December 23, 2010 December 23, 2011
June 10, 2011 June 15, 2012
- To ensure legal operations, ethical practices and quality education in the private postsecondary sector.
- To ensure public access to reliable and valuable alternative higher educational opportunities and vocational training options.
- To assist those injured by private postsecondary educational institutions.
- To collect or secure monies sufficient to provide for student financial restitution.
- To provide equitable financial restitution, in a timely manner, to students financially injured as a result of a school closure.
To protect the health, safety and welfare of Arizona citizens by regulating private postsecondary educational institutions and providing services to their students.
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