Eminata Group


The Eminata Group is a for-profit provider of post-secondary education in Canada. The corporation, based in Vancouver, British Columbia, owns and manages a number of for-profit colleges in Canada, including Vancouver Career College, and CDI College.

History

Eminata is owned and chaired by the Korean-born businessman Peter Chung, whose family emigrated to the US when he was a boy. He built up an enterprise in California consisting of real estate ventures and for-profit schools but went bankrupt after the failure of his computer school, Wilshire Computer College, in 1993. Two years later, he founded Eminata in Vancouver. When Eminata purchased University Canada West in 2008, the Times Colonist reported that the corporation had annual revenues of approximately $50 million and owned 30 education centres across Canada. Eminata sold University Canada West, which had been dogged by student complaints and falling enrollment, to Global University Systems in 2015.

Eminata career colleges

As of 2016, career colleges owned and run by Eminata Group include: