HOFFMAN ESTATES, Ill May 13, 2004--Career Education Corporation (Nasdaq:CECO)
today announced that its Online Education Group will present at the UBS Online
Higher Education Conference at the Sofitel New York Hotel in New York City.
Career Education Corporation is scheduled to present on Monday,
May 17, 2004 at approximately 11:30 a.m. Eastern Time. Nick Fluge, president
of the CEC's Online Education Group and chief operating officer of AIU Online,
Jeremy Wheaton, senior vice president of operations of CEC's Online Education
Group, and Paul Gleason, senior vice president of technology & development
of CEC's Online Education Group will provide an overview of CEC's Online Education
Group's strategic growth plan and a virtual campus tour demonstration.
Interested parties can access CEC's Online Education Group's presentation live
via an audio-only webcast at CEC's corporate website at www.careered.com. A
replay of the presentation will be archived and available 24 hours after the
presentation time at www.careered.com for 30 days.
Career Education Corporation (www.careered.com)
is the world's largest on-campus provider of private, for-profit postsecondary
education and has a rapidly-growing presence in online education. CEC's Colleges,
Schools and Universities Group operates 79 campuses in the U.S., Canada, France,
the United Kingdom and the United Arab Emirates and offers doctoral degree,
master's degree, bachelor's degree, associate degree and diploma programs in
the career-oriented disciplines of visual communication and design technologies,
information technology, business studies, culinary arts and health education.
The Online Education Group operates American InterContinental University Online
and Colorado Technical University Online and offers a variety of degrees in
information technology, business, visual communication and education. Total
full-time student population of CEC's Online Education Group on April 30, 2004
was approximately 15,600. CEC's total student population on April 30, 2004 was
approximately 85,300 students.
