Katharine Gibbs College was a private for-profit institution

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 of higher learning

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 based in the United States of America

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, founded by Katharine Gibbs.

As the Providence School in Rhode Island

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, it was founded in 1911 as an institution for the career education

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 of young women. A few years later, the institution expanded with satellite campus

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es in Boston

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 and New York

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 and was renamed for its founder. It specializes in education in industries such as design, business administration, computer technology, criminal justice, and health care.