PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) — Hussian College, a for-profit art school with a 77-year history in Philadelphia, has closed its doors for good.
Dozens of students are scrambling to continue their education, and employees are looking for new jobs after the college suddenly shut down. The for-profit school at 16th and Spring Garden streets notified the Pennsylvania Department of Education that it can no longer operate.
Hussian had seven campuses in four states. The school’s website says it is no longer enrolling students. According to a WARN notice filed with the Pennsylvania Department of Labor and Industry, Hussian’s 23 employees were laid off in June.
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The closure came as little surprise to Seumas McDermott of Springfield, Delaware County. He used the GI bill to attend a coding boot camp at Hussian in 2019, but he found the instructor to be underqualified.
“When I say he didn’t know how to code, I mean he didn’t know how to open a file,” said McDermott.
“He was coming to me and asking me how to do certain things, which the students noticed. And of course, I ended up almost becoming the instructor for the class during breaks,” he added.
The school’s phone is apparently disconnected. KYW Newsradio was unable to reach Hussian CEO Joshua Figuli for comment.
The Pennsylvania Department of Education is referring the school’s 71 students to the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, the University of the Arts, or Montgomery County Community College to try to resume their education.
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