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Significant Accounting Policies (Tables)

9 Months Ended

Sep. 30, 2014

Significant Accounting Policies [Abstract]

Schedule of graduation fund liability

Balance as of December 31, 2013		$	1,898
Revenue deferred			5,821
Benefit redeemed			(374	)
Balance at September 30, 2014		$	7,345

Schedule of tuition receivable and allowance for doubtful accounts

($ in thousands)		December 31, 2013				September 30, 2014
Tuition receivable		$	26,145			$	24,279
Allowance for doubtful accounts			(10,303	)			(8,567	)
Tuition receivable, net		$	15,842			$	15,712

Schedule of reconciliation of shares used to calculate basic and diluted earnings per share

		For the three months ended September 30,								For the nine months ended September 30,
		2013				2014				2013				2014
Weighted average shares outstanding used to compute basic earnings per share			10,510				10,571				10,608				10,555
Unvested restricted stock			42				92				38				67
Shares used to compute diluted earnings per share			10,552				10,663				10,646				10,622

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Tabular disclosure of graduation fund liability.

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Tabular disclosure of the various types of trade accounts and notes receivable and for each the gross carrying value, allowance, and net carrying value as of the balance sheet date. Presentation is categorized by current, noncurrent and unclassified receivables.

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-Publisher FASB

-Name Accounting Standards Codification

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Tabular disclosure of an entity's basic and diluted earnings per share calculations, including a reconciliation of numerators and denominators of the basic and diluted per-share computations for income from continuing operations.

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