South University

South University is a non-profit institution offering degree programs at the doctoral, master's, bachelor's, and associate level. The schools were previously owned by for-profit college chain Education Management Corporation and more recently Dream Center Education Holdings (DCEH), part of a Pentecostal non-profit organization facing extreme financial difficulties. 

In 2019, South University was expected to be transferred to Education Principle Foundation.In the meantime, all South campuses are being operated independently. 

According to the Republic Report, the court appointed receiver, Studio Enterprise & South University have until April 11, 2019 to negotiate to separate South & remaining Art Institute schools from the Dream Center Education IT Platform by September 11, 20119. "Should they fail to agree, the plan of reorganization will likely fail, thereby dooming South University and the Art Institutes. 

According to the court-appointed receiver, "there is a “scattered matching of revenues and expenses” among all the former EDMC schools, making it difficult to determine the true financial picture at the schools in receivership and those controlled by Education Principle Foundation."

South University was founded in Savannah, Georgia in 1899 as Draughan's Practical Business College.Draughan's taught many of the skills needed by business professionals at the turn of the 20th century including accounting, banking, typewriting, bookkeeping and shorthand.

The South family acquired the institution in 1974, and changed its name to Draughan's Junior College. In 1986, the name was changed to South College. In 2001, the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools accredited South College at the master's level and the school became South University. Web-based instruction was added in 2004.

South University's Savannah campus celebrated its largest graduating class in the institution's history in June 2017, when more than 3,500 students received degrees.

On October 17, 2017, the University's former parent company, Education Management Corporation, reported that it had sold its schools to the Los Angeles-based Dream Center Foundation, a non-profit organization.

Founded in 1899, South University consists of its School of Pharmacy, College of Nursing and Public Health, College of Health Professions, College of Business, College of Theology, and College of Arts and Sciences.

The University expanded from its main campus in Savannah, Georgia to include eleven other campus locations across the United States and began offering online courses in 2004. Fifty-two percent of South University students are enrolled entirely online.