Chancellor University

Chancellor University and its Jack Welch Management Institute offer superior academically challenging and relevant real-world education and professional development to assist students in their careers today and for tomorrow’s opportunities. What is distinctive to Chancellor University is academic quality, with the Jack Welch partnership, and personalized attention from advisors and faculty to act in the best interest of the student. Chancellor University’s students and alumni act on the opportunity to reach their personal, educational, financial and career goals. Each student is diverse in what they’re looking to gain from their educational advancement and this always evolves through the pursuit of program completion because of their growth personally and professionally; some want a career change, some to enhance their skills for a promotion or salary increase, many as a personal goal and often is multiple reasons. All of these objectives are equally important.
 
Chancellor University was founded in 1848 as an independent, private, coeducational institution of higher education. The University offers academic programs at a Master's, Bachelor’s, Associate’s degrees or Certificate level including:

Business

• Accounting
• Business Administration
• Corporate Management
• Finance
• Forensic Accounting
• Human Resource Management
• Management of Information Systems
• Marketing
• Small Business Entrepreneurship
• Public Administration
• Health Services Management

 Criminal Justice/Law

• Criminal Justice
• Paralegal Education

History

The University was opened by R. S. Bacon as a college of business in 1848 on West 3rd Street in Cleveland, Ohio. Shortly thereafter it merged with Folsom's Mercantile College, founded by E. G. Folsom. The University was renamed for one of its most illustrious administrators, Platt R. Spencer, educator and originator of Spencerian penmanship. The earliest curriculum was limited to the development of practical skills, such as penmanship, bookkeeping, and telegraphy. Although none of these courses are listed in today’s catalog, they charted a course of dedication to the teaching of practical business skills.

In 1896, Frank L. Dyke, a former Spencerian professor, founded Dyke School of Commerce, dedicated to the preparation of young women for business careers. Dyke School of Commerce and Spencerian College operated separately for many years until the exigencies of World War II prompted President Jay R. Gates to propose and implement a merger of the two schools in 1942. For a time the combined institution was known as Dyke and Spencerian College.

After World War II it became apparent that young people entering the business world should have a college degree attesting to their cultural exposure and their technical competence. To meet this change of emphasis, the college modified its academic programs to stress the attainment of the broader-based Master of Business Administration, Master of Management, Bachelor of Science, Associate in Science, and Associate in Arts degrees