‘We Can’t Survive on the 716 Alone’: Hilbert Purchase of Valley Doubles Its Reach

At first glance, the two colleges seem very different. Hilbert College is a private, nonprofit, four-year Franciscan school on 100 acres in Hamburg serving 900 students, 150 of them in online programs. Valley College is a for-profit career college that rents space in retail plazas in West Virginia and Ohio and has 1,100 students, more than half of them online. But Hilbert officials see Valley as a big part of its future.