Blue Cliff College

Blue Cliff College is a for-profit technical school with campuses located in Gulfport, Mississippi, Fayetteville, Arkansas, and five locations in Louisiana: Lafayette, Shreveport, Houma, Metairie, and Alexandria. The college offers diplomas for careers in massage therapy, medical assisting, criminal justice, and cosmetology, and an associate's degree in occupational studies.

The name of the college is taken from an ancient Zen text, the "Blue Cliff Records", containing dialogues between Zen masters and their students.

The Blue Cliff College campuses include lecture rooms, massage training rooms, administrative offices, and break areas. Equipment includes, massage tables and chairs, hydrocollators, and teaching skeletons. There is an on-campus library. Campuses offering training information technology are equipped with computer labs.

Blue Cliff College was founded in 1987. Blue Cliff College of Gulfport was accredited in massage therapy by the Accrediting Commission of Career Schools and Colleges of Technology in 2000. The Houma and Fayetteville campuses opened in 2005, and the Alexandria campus opened in 2007.

The school was purchased by Education Management, Inc., in 1999, which in turn was acquired by Quad Partners in 2008.

External links

* [http://bluecliffcollege.com/ Blue Cliff College]