Brown Mackie College is a collection of for-profit educational institutions for career preparation in the business, legal, health sciences, information technology, and creative fields. The system of schools has 24 locations throughout the United States, and has an enrollment of 11,436 students (as of June 2008). The Brown Mackie College schools are owned by Education Management Corporation, based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The schools provide Bachelor's degrees, Associate’s degrees, diplomas and certification programs. The Brown Mackie College system of schools began with a single school, Kansas Wesleyan School of Business, which began operation on September 12, 1892. In 1938, the school was incorporated as The Brown Mackie School of Business under the ownership of Perry E. Brown and A.B. Mackie, former instructors at Kansas Wesleyan University in Salina, Kansas. In following years, this school and others that were to become part of the Brown Mackie College system were operated by numerous organizations and eventually were united as a system under the parent company of American Education Centers (AEC), founded in 1993 and headquartered in Fort Mitchell, Kentucky.