DuBois Business College officially shut all four of its campuses, including the school in Oil City, on Sept. 22.
ITT Technical Institute closed earlier in the month.
It is not clear how many students were affected by the closing of both schools.
“Although we always regret to see students displaced by the closing of other institutions, Clarion University stands ready to help any prospective student who wishes to learn more about how our university can help them to achieve their educational goals and earn deserved credit for their prior learning,” said Todd Pfannestiel, interim provost and vice president for academic affairs at Clarion, in a news release.
In that same release, Clarion said that it will waive the application fee for students who are displaced by the closures.
The school will also provide those students with other services, such as transfer counselors, to help them make the transition, said David Love, a spokesman for Clarion University.
Students may choose to continue on in the course work they began at the technical schools or to pursue four-year degrees, he said.
Clarion is presently looking into transferring credits for those students and also into the possibility of giving credit for life experience, Love said.
“We’re going to try to make that work,” he said.
Once they make the switch, students from the technical colleges would be charged Clarion’s usual tuition rates, Love said.
Outreach to the displaced students has primarily been at DBC’s main campus in DuBois because of its proximity to Clarion, and DBC’s Oil City campus because of its proximity to Clarion’s Venango campus, the release said.
The majority of DBC’s students are commuters, according to the release.
“We are sharing information with the (DBC) director that we have online options available,” Hope Lineman, director of marketing at Venango College of Clarion University, said in the release. She noted that students are already expressing interest in attending Clarion.
The Trade Act provides educational funding for workers who are unemployed as a result of their jobs being exported overseas, such as at Joy Global and General Electric, Lineman went on to say.
The student chooses a program that is classified as high priority, meaning jobs in that field are available, and has 130 weeks to complete the program, she said.
Any student who is interested in transferring previously earned education credits or experiences to Clarion should contact Dana Bearer, associate director of transfer, adult and graduate admissions, at (800) 672-7171, ext. 1.