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The History of Brown Mackie College

The Brown Mackie College system of schools has a long history that extends back to the late 1800s. The system began as a single school, Kansas Wesleyan School of Business, which began operation on Sept. 12, 1892.

In 1938, the school was incorporated as The Brown Mackie School of Business under the ownership of Mr. Perry E. Brown and Mr. A.B. Mackie, former instructors at Kansas Wesleyan University in Salina, Kansas.

In following years, this school and others that were to become part of the Brown Mackie College system of schools were operated by numerous organizations and eventually were united as a system under the parent company of American Education Centers (AEC), founded in 1993 and headquartered in Fort Mitchell, Kentucky.

In 2003, AEC was acquired by Education Management Corporation of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The system of schools was renamed Brown Mackie College in November 2004, and now includes the schools formerly known as Southern Ohio College in Ohio and Kentucky, Asher School of Business in Georgia, Commonwealth Business College in Indiana and Illinois, Michiana College in Indiana, RETS Institute of Technology in Kentucky and Pennsylvania, RETS Medical and Business Institute in Kentucky, and AEC Texas Institute. The Brown Mackie College system of schools has more than 20 locations in 13 states.