Eminata Group
Education provider in Canada
The Eminata Group is a for-profit provider of post-secondary education in Canada. The corporation, based in Vancouver, British Columbia, owns and manages a number of for-profit colleges in Canada, including Vancouver Career College, and CDI College and Campus Support parent company.
History
Eminata is owned and chaired by the Korean-born businessman Peter Chung, whose family emigrated to the US when he was a boy. He built up an enterprise in California consisting of real estate ventures and for-profit schools but went bankrupt after the failure of his computer school, Wilshire Computer College, in 1993. Two years later, he founded Eminata in Vancouver. When Eminata purchased University Canada West in 2008, the Times Colonist reported that the corporation had annual revenues of approximately $50 million and owned 30 education centres across Canada. Eminata sold University Canada West, which had been dogged by student complaints and falling enrollment, to Global University Systems in 2015.
Eminata career colleges
As of 2016, career colleges owned and run by Eminata Group include:
CDI College is a for-profit career training college. According to the college, it is accredited and licensed by the Private Career Training Institutions Agency (PCTIA) in BC, Alberta Advanced Education, Manitoba Advanced Education and Literacy – Private Vocational Institutes and the Ministry of Education, Leisure and Sports in Quebec. In November 2020, it was named one of the ten private colleges under investigation for questionable recruitment practices.
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