Everest College

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Everest College is a system of for-profit colleges in the United States and the Canadian province of Ontario. They offer career training programs in fields such as accounting, business, criminal justice, health care, and paralegal studies. Day and evening classes are available. In April 2007, Olympia Colleges became part of the Everest College system. In December 2007, the 18 CDI College campuses in Ontario became part of the Everest College system.

The schools are owned by Corinthian Colleges, Inc. In 2007, Corinthian Colleges completed the process of unifying all it's schools under the Everest brand name. Former schools that became Everest Colleges include: Bryman College, Ashmead College, Mountain West College, Olympia College, Kee Business College, Parks College, Western Business College, Blair College and Springfield College.

1 Everest College Programs
2 Everest campus locations in the United States
3 Everest campus locations in Ontario
4 Controversy
5 See also
6 References
7 External links

[edit] Everest College Programs

Accounting
The Accounting program includes courses in principles of accounting, financial statements, tax accounting, payroll accounting, cost accounting, marketing, business law, and finance.

Business Administration
The Business Administration includes courses in corporate accounting, principles of management, communications, advertising, spreadsheets, and finance.

Computer Information Science
The Computer Information Science program includes courses in computer programming languages (Visual Basic I, II), programming concepts, project development, computer operating systems, and computer applications.

Criminal Justice
The Criminal Justice program includes courses in corrections, probation, criminology, forensic sciences, law security, criminal evidence, criminal procedure, policing, criminal law, constitutional law, and criminology.

Dental Assisting
The Dental Assisting program includes courses in clinical, radiographic, and administrative procedures common to a dental office.

Homeland Security Specialist
The Homeland Security program includes courses in planning, implementing, and managing operations for an organization. Students study emergency planning and security measures, tactical communications, international terrorism, and emergency medical services.

Legal Assistant / Paralegal
The Paralegal program includes courses in legal tasks associated with civil litigation. Students learn about the formation of contracts, estate planning, trusts, estate taxes, estate ales, and joint tenancy.

Massage Therapy
The Massage Therapy program includes courses Business and Ethics, Swedish Massage, Neuromuscular/Trigger Points, Muscle Energy Techniques, and Clinical and Sports Massage.

Medical Assistant / Medical Assisting
The Medical Assistants program includes courses in both the administrative and clinical procedures of a health care facility and pharmacology, laboratory procedures, medical law, patient care, and health sciences.

Medical Insurance Billing and Coding
The Massage Billing program includes courses in medical insurance, claims processing, collection strategies, procedural coding, diagnostic coding, set up and maintenance of patient records, and medical terminology.

Note: Programs not available at all locations. Also note that many credits are NOT transferable to state colleges and universities

[edit] Everest campus locations in the United States

[edit] Everest campus locations in Ontario

[edit] Controversy

In July 2007, the California Attorney General threatened to file suit against Corinthian Colleges, corporate parent of Everest College, unless it settled allegations that it has misrepresented its placement statistics; the school had been under investigation by the state attorney general's office for over 18 months.^[1] According to a case filed in Los Angeles County Superior Court, Corinthian Colleges "engaged in a persistent pattern of unlawful conduct" by overstating the percentage of those who obtained employment from its courses, inflated information on starting salaries and made misleading or false statements about which programs it was authorized to offer and which were approved by the California Department of Education.^[2] The suit stated that Corinthian's "own records show that a substantial percentage of students do not complete the programs and, of those who complete the program, a large majority do not successfully obtain employment within six months after completing the course."^[2] In late July, Corinthian Colleges agreed to pay $6.5 million to settle a lawsuit alleging that the chain engaged in unlawful business practices by exaggerating its record of placing students in well-paying jobs; the amount included $5.8 million in restitution to students as well as $500,000 in civil damages and $200,000 in court costs.^[2]