Sullivan University is authorized to offer bachelor's, expert's and doctoral degrees by the Kentucky Council on Postsecondary Education as per the procurements of KRS 164.945-164.99, situated in Louisville, Kentucky and is licensed by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools—the first revenue driven school or college to get this accreditation. Sullivan University at present has physical grounds in Louisville, Lexington, and Fort Knox, and an online grounds. With roughly 6,000 understudies, Sullivan is Kentucky's biggest private college.
History
Sullivan Business College was established in 1962 by A.O. Sullivan and his child, A.R. Sullivan, as a one-year school planning individuals for professions. In 1972, the school started to offer partner degrees notwithstanding its one-year profession certificates. The foundation was renamed in 1976 to Sullivan Junior College of Business to mirror its power to allow partner degrees, and moved to its present Louisville grounds on Bardstown Road and the Watterson Expressway. The school soon extended by opening extra grounds—its Ft. Knox grounds was opened in 1982, and its grounds in Lexington (presently on Harrodsburg Road) in 1985. In 1987 Sullivan opened the National Center for Hospitality Studies offering degrees in culinary expressions, preparing and cake expressions, lodging and eatery administration and providing food. Sullivan College of Technology and Design and Spencerian College are additionally part of the Sullivan University System.
In 1990, the baccalaureate degree project was included, getting its accreditation in 1992. The school initially offered a MBA degree in 1997. The name was changed to its present assignment, Sullivan University, in 2000, mirroring the school's development. In 2008, Sullivan started its first doctoral system, the Doctor of Pharmacy, which is licensed by the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE). Drug store graduates are qualified to sit for the National Board Exam. In 2010, Sullivan dispatched its first Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) program in administration. The vast majority of the University's degree projects are accessible online through Sullivan University Online.
Sullivan University still mirrors its unique rationality of rapidly planning understudies for vocations by offering a "stair step" approach. An understudy can achieve a vocation certificate in one year, a partner degree in eighteen months, a four year certification following an extra eighteen months, and a graduate degree in an extra eighteen months. Along these lines, they can achieve business at a passage level while moving in the direction of a degree. Sullivan University works on the quarter framework with every period enduring eleven weeks. The Louisville and Lexington grounds offer "In addition to Friday," where grounds don't hold classes on any Fridays however do have the grounds workplaces open so understudies can work with full-time undergrad educators, who are required to be on grounds on Friday morning.
In 2012, Sullivan University went into a concurrence with Historic Homes Foundation, Inc., the proprietor of the connecting Historic Farmington Plantation, to rent 5 of the milestone's 18 sections of land for use as a 300-space parking garage to be shared by the substances. Dubious inquiries concerning the proposition were brought up in online media paving the way to its thought in the February 3, 2013 meeting of the Metro Louisville Landmarks Commission's Individual Landmarks Architectural Review Committee.
