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Segment Reporting - Additional Information (Detail)	3 Months Ended
	Mar. 31, 2019 Segment
Segment Reporting Information [Line Items]
Number of reporting segments	2
CTU [Member]
Segment Reporting Information [Line Items]
Students enrolled expressed as percentage of enrollment	65.00%
CTU [Member] | Fully Online [Member]
Segment Reporting Information [Line Items]
Percentage of enrollment	93.00%
AIU [Member]
Segment Reporting Information [Line Items]
Students enrolled expressed as percentage of enrollment	35.00%
AIU [Member] | Fully Online [Member]
Segment Reporting Information [Line Items]
Percentage of enrollment	94.00%

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- Definition

Percentage of enrollment.

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- Definition

The percentage of student enrollment for a specific group of the total entity.

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- Definition

Number of segments reported by the entity. A reportable segment is a component of an entity for which there is an accounting requirement to report separate financial information on that component in the entity's financial statements.

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- Definition

Line items represent financial concepts included in a table. These concepts are used to disclose reportable information associated with domain members defined in one or many axes to the table.

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- Details

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