ITT Technical Institute—which has a total of 10 Texas campuses located in Arlington, Austin, DeSoto, Houston, Richardson, San Antonio and Waco—announced Tuesday it will be ceasing operations at all of its U.S. campuses permanently.
"It is with profound regret that we must report that ITT Educational Services Inc. will discontinue academic operations at all of its ITT Technical Institutes permanently after approximately 50 years of continuous service,” ITT Educational Services said in a news release Tuesday morning. “The actions of and sanctions from the U.S. Department of Education have forced us to cease operations […], and we will not be offering our September quarter.”
According to the release, the company has eliminated the positions of the majority of their roughly 8,000 employees, and hundreds of thousands of current students and alumni will be negatively affected. Almost 43,000 students were enrolled at the institute before the announcement.
The following are ITT Technical Institute campuses in the Austin, Dallas and Houston areas:
Austin:
6330 E. Hwy. 290, Ste. 150, Austin
512-467-6800
Dallas (Richardson):
2101 Waterview Parkway, Richardson
972-690-9100
South Dallas (DeSoto):
921 W. Belt Line Road, Ste. 181, DeSoto
972-274-8600
Ft. Worth (Arlington):
551 Ryan Plaza Drive, Arlington
817-794-5100
Houston North:
15651 North Freeway, Houston
281-873-0512
Houston West:
2950 S. Gessner Road, Houston
713-952-2294
Houston South (Webster):
1001 Magnolia Ave., Webster
281-316-4700
