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VIRGINIA COLLEGE
Business:, Privately funded college with a current enrollment of 1,600
Address: 65 Bagby Drive, 35209
Phone: (205) 802-1200
Fax: (205) 802-7045
On the Web: www.virginiacollege.com
2000 revenue: $15 million
"This is the best-kept secret in the city," says Ken Home about Virginia College, a nominee for BBJ's Best In Business awards in the category of companies with 101-400 employees. Horne, a Birmingham native, and his wife founded Southern Institute in 1976, which they later sold. In 1989, they purchased Virginia College in Virginia and branched it back to Birmingham in 1992.
Virginia College is part of a growing privatization movement in education. In many ways, it is similar to the private, forprofit health care systems that sprang up in the...