Strayer University

Strayer University is a private, for-profit university in the United States. It was founded in 1892 as Strayer's Business College and later became Strayer College, before being granted university status in 1998. Strayer University operates under the holding company Strategic Education, Inc.  which was established in 1996 and rebranded with the merger with Capella University

According to the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), Strayers's 6-year graduation rate is 20 percent.  The NCES College Scorecard reports Strayer's student loan repayment rate at 23 percent. According to the same source, the median salary after attending is $45,900.

According to research from the Brookings Institution, Strayer University students, as a whole, hold the fifth largest amount of US student loan debt, approximately $8 billion. The 5-year default rate of Strayer students is 31 percent, and the average repayment of debt after five years is -7 percent.