Chancellor University

Chancellor University is a private, for-profit university located in Cleveland, Ohio. The school was originally founded in 1848 as Folsom's Mercantile College to teach basic bookkeeping and business skills. It has undergone several changes of name and ownership during its 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 Ezekiel G. Folsom. Two of Folsom College's earliest students created the Bryant & Stratton Colleges which later acquired Folsom's school in a possibly forced merger. After the merger with the Bryant and Stratton system, the Cleveland school used the Bryant and Stratton name...