Metro Business College to close barring surprise intervention
Barring an eleventh hour change in plans, Metro Business College will close by the end of the year.
Metro Business College has campuses in Cape Girardeau, Jefferson City and Rolla, all three of which will close according to MBC founder and president George Holske. He said declining enrollment and the cost of keeping classrooms open have forced him to make closure plans.
"I think we're down to about 30 students (in Cape Girardeau), and you can't survive on 30 students, no matter how much you cut the budget," Holske said in a telephone interview. "There is a point at which you can still survive by slashing overhead, but we've gone past that point."
Metro Business College opened its Cape Girardeau campus in 1981 when Holske, who was operating the Metro Training Center in St. Louis, acquired Cape Business College and moved it from Main Street to the 1400 block of North Kingshighway. The school moved to its current location in the 1700 block of North Kingshighway a few years later.
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(Cape Girardeau Southeast Missourian)
