Globe University

Type	For-profit college
Established	1877 in Minneapolis, Minnesota
Students	Approx 10,000 (2009)
Location	Multiple campuses, Minnesota, Wisconsin and South Dakota, USA
Website	Official site

Globe University and Minnesota School of Business is a for-profit school providing specialized career training programs in business, medical, legal, information technology and drafting and design fields. It has campuses in Minnesota, Wisconsin and South Dakota, USA. They are nationally accredited by the ACICS, which is a consortium of similar for-profit schools.

Globe University is not regionally accredited and its credits are unlikely to transfer to public colleges and universities.

In 2014, Minnesota’s Attorney General Lori Swanson filed a lawsuit against the Minnesota School of Business and Globe University for misleading students Former students allege that Globe’s advertisements and promotional materials contain “misleading, unfair, deceptive, false, and fraudulent statements and omissions intended to induce postsecondary students to enroll in their schools.”

A Minnesota judge also ruled that Globe University must pay $995,000 for wrongful termination to former dean Heidi Weber after exposing the school’s unethical practices.

In September 2016, the state of Minnesota stopped the business from operating in the state.

Minnesota School of Business was founded in 1877 by Professor Alexander R. Archibald, previously of Dartmouth College. He and an assistant taught classes in bookkeeping, shorthand, English, and penmanship in a three-room school in Minneapolis, Minnesota. For 12 years the school was called Archibald Business College. In 1890 the school was purchased by Charles T. Rickard and Grove A. Gruman and moved to larger facilities in the Jewelers’ Exchange Building in Minneapolis.

In 1929, the school was sold to the Correll and Kamprath families and was relocated to 24 South Seventh Street. In 1979 the School was moved again to the Chamber of Commerce Building in Minneapolis.

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