Rasmussen University

It offers associate, bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degrees as well as certificates and diplomas in career-focused areas at 20 campuses in Minnesota, Illinois, North Dakota, Florida, Wisconsin, and Kansas with many programs offered online.

[4][5] Rasmussen believed the need for skilled professionals by the local business community was not being met.

[6][7] With the advent of women's suffrage in 1920 through the Nineteenth Amendment, the school's female enrollment began to increase.

[19] That same month, American Public Education, Inc began the process of acquiring Rasmussen.

[24] According to a 2012 US Senate HELP investigation on for-profit colleges led by Tom Harkin, 63.2 percent of Rasmussen students withdrew, many after only five months of study.