Technical Career Institutes, also known as TCI College, was a private, for-profit college in New York City that offered two year associate degrees and certificates for education in technology, business, engineering, healthcare and other career paths.
[3] TCI's curricula offered training at the associate degree level taught by more than 190 faculty.
[6] It is not uncommon for for-profit colleges to have high rates of student loan default, which prompted a New York City Department of Consumer Affairs investigation in 2015.
[8] In May 2016, TCI named Dr. George Santiago, Jr. the president and CEO, he served until the schools closure in 2017.
According to the New York State Department of Labor, Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) submission the close was based on economic factors.