For-profit college ITT Tech closes down

Published September 6, 2016 9:40pm ET



ITT Technical Institute, one of the largest for-profit college companies in the country, on Tuesday announced it was immediately closing all of its 130 U.S. college campuses, saying it cannot survive recent sanctions by the Department of Education.

The college’s Indiana parent company, ITT Educational Services, told its 35,000 students the fall term has been canceled. About 8,000 faculty and staff jobs were immediately cut as well.

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