Main qualifications offered included health, business, criminal justice, information technology, nursing and professional training (trades) programs.

[1] On December 5, 2018, Brightwood's parent company, Education Corporation of America, announced unexpectedly via an email that all of its schools would be closing in two business days.

[20] April 2018, this action was under review, following a court ruling remanding the December 2016 decision to current Secretary of Education, Betsy DeVos.

[24] On November 30, 2010, the GAO issued a revised report with several significant edits, altering key passages and softening several of the initial allegations.

"[26][27] In April of 2023, the Supreme Court rejected a challenge to the settlement and allowed to proceed the debt cancellation due to alleged fraud.