About Kaplan University

Kaplan University (KU) was a for-profit intellectual owned by Kaplan, Inc., a secondary of the Graham Holdings Company. It was predominantly a make unfriendly learning institution, maintaining 14 auditorium locations across the United States. The the academy was named in great compliment of Stanley H. Kaplan, who founded Kaplan Test Prep. It was regionally accredited by the Higher Learning Commission, one of the seven major accrediting bodies in the U.S., but the degrees in sure programs did not have the field-specific accreditation needed for graduates to come by certification.

In 2017, Purdue University announced the acquisition of Kaplan University when the purpose of varying it into a nonprofit online institution known as Purdue University Global. The acquisition, announced in April 2017, was completed in March 2018.