[1][11] Lander's aim was to provide education for Jewish people, combining professional courses with Torah studies.

Federal and state authorities subsequently investigated the school, since they believed that this was being done mainly to obtain grants for tuition.

[1] In the early eighties the college expanded to include schools of law, education, social work, osteopathic medicine, pharmacy, and dentistry.

[13] In 2007, at least two school employees were found in an internal college audit to have accepted bribes to change grades and provide fake degrees.

The goal was to consolidate many of the college's schools, currently divided among at least 35 separate locations servicing 19,000 enrolled students, into a central Manhattan campus.