Capella University

Capella University is a revenue driven organization of higher learning in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The school is claimed by the traded on an open market Capella Education Company and conveys the vast majority of its training on the web.

Inside those territories, Capella has 142 graduate and undergrad specializations and 25 declaration programs with more than 1600 online courses. Around 36,000 understudies are enlisted from each of the 50 states and 61 different nations, with 29 percent selected in doctoral projects, 42 percent selected in expert's projects, and 26 percent enlisted in lone ranger's projects. A staff of 1,488 personnel with 86 percent holding doctoral degrees. Capella workforce live in 48 states and 6 nations.

Capella University was initially settled as The Graduate School of America by Dr. Harold Abel and Stephen Shank in 1993. Shank was the previous CEO of Tonka. Abel, once the president of Castleton State College, Central Michigan University, and Walden University,became the principal president of the foundation.

In 1997, Capella University got local accreditation. After two years the guardian organization and college were renamed Capella Education Company and Capella University, separately. In 2000, Capella started to offer four year certification programs. After six years, in 2006, Capella Education Company turned into a traded on an open market organization (NASDAQ: CPLA).

In 2007, Capella was named one of 86 advanced education establishments in the United States to have gotten the National Centers of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance Education (CAEIAE) assignment by the National Security Agency (NSA). The assignment was substantial for the scholastic years 2007 through 2012.

In March 2008, Capella Education Co., long-term tenant of the 225 South Sixth high rise in downtown Minneapolis, marked another lease that extended its office and renamed the building Capella Tower. The building houses the greater part of the organization's 1,150 downtown Minneapolis managerial staff.

In 2009, The Project Management Institute (PMI) Global Accreditation Center for Project Management (GAC) licensed two Capella University online degree programs: the MS in Information Technology with a specialization in Project Management; and the BS in Information Technology with a specialization in Project Management.

In 2009, Capella dispatched its School of Public Service Leadership.

Until November 2010, Capella University had an open enlistment confirmation strategy, which required candidates just evidence of a secondary school recognition, GED or its identical.

In 2010, Capella, alongside three different schools, was granted the CHEA Award for Outstanding Institutional Practice in Student Learning Outcomes by The Council for Higher Education Accreditation.

In 2013, the U.S. Branch of Education affirmed Capella University's FlexPath programs, making it the main college to offer competency-based lone wolf's and graduate degree programs that use an endorsed direct-evaluation learning model instead of the customary credit-hour standard.

Undergrad candidates who don't have any credits qualified for exchange should effectively finish a college endorsed examination to be considered for confirmation.

Capella's enlistment is made for the most part out of graduate understudies including 45 percent MS/MBA understudies and 31 percent PhD/PsyD doctoral understudies. The undergrad populace of Capella makes up 23 percent of the understudy body. Short of what one percent are chipping away at declaration programs. The normal age of a Capella understudy is 40. Ninety-five percent of understudies are enlisted low maintenance, 74 percent are female, and 54 percent are ethnic minorities.

Capella permits a predetermined number of credits to be earned through an earlier learning appraisal program, which can give school credit to past encounters.