Tiffin University, a small, private non-profit university in northwest Ohio, announced last week that it has been ordered to stop its Ivy Bridge College associate degree program by the university’s regional accreditor, the Higher Learning Commission, leaving thousands of students without a plan to finish their degrees.

Founded in 2008 with just 65 students, Ivy Bridge was a joint venture between Tiffin and Bay Area-based for-profit company Altius Education. The online community college offered an associate degree program that promised students an automatic transfer to one of over 150 traditional four-year institutions, depending on their GPA. Thanks to the program’s termination, about 2,000 students are now scrambling to find other accredited institutions that will allow them to finish their studies.