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''This is about the college in New York. For the university in Sioux City, Iowa, see Briar Cliff University.'' Briarcliffe College is a for-profit postsecondary higher education career school with two campuses located in Long Island, New York. The Bethpage campus serves Nassau County, New York, and the Patchogue campus is located in Suffolk County, New York. The College offers Associate or Bachelor programs in a variety of areas including Healthcare, Graphic Design, Criminal Justice, Business and Technology. Briarcliffe also offers online classes and programs. ==History== Briarcliffe was founded in 1966, as a one-year business school in Hicksville, New York. A branch campus opened in 1969 in Mineola/Garden City. This branch was moved to Lynbrook, New York in 1983. In 1979, the New York State Education Department authorized Briarclffe to offer the two-year associate degree in occupational studies. A third campus was established in Patchogue, New York in 1981. In 1992, Briarcliffe, which had an overwhelmingly female student population, purchased Grumman Data Systems Institute (GDSI), a technical school with a predominantly male enrollment. The combination of the two institutions created a truly coeducational college of approximately 2,000 students. The main campus was moved from Hicksville to the GDSI campus in Woodbury, New York. In 1994, the school was granted regional accreditation by the Commission on Higher Education of the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools.〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=Middle States Commission on Higher Education )〕 The college purchased a quarter-million square foot facility on approximately in Bethpage, New York in 1995. Students from the Lynbrook campus were moved to this new main campus. In 1996, Briarcliffe become regionally accredited and the school and faculty earned the right to be called Briarcliffe "College". In 1997, Briarcliffe became a 4-year college able to grant baccalaureate degrees. It was purchased by and is a subsidiary of Career Education Corporation. In 2010, the College offered its first degree programs fully online. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Briarcliffe College」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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