Strayer Education Inc - STRA

Strayer Education, Inc., stock ticker STRA on the NASDAQ provides post-secondary education services. You might be saying to yourself, Why would I want to invest in an education "company"? Well, STRA pays a $1.00 quarterly dividend and is selling at $98.34 compared to $254.50 back on April 16th, 2010. STRA was listed as 1 of 10 highly shorted stocks with strong profitability by Seeking Alpha. For-profit secondary schools will not go away just because the government may change legislation or force schools like Strayer, Devry, Apollo Group, etc. to have to abide by new laws. Every child in America should have the accessibility to go to a non-profit or for-profit school.

STRA offers a range of academic programs through its wholly owned subsidiary Strayer University, Inc., both in classroom courses and online via the Internet. Strayer University is an institution of higher learning that offers undergraduate and graduate degree programs in business administration, accounting, information technology, education, health care, public administration and criminal justice at 92 physical campuses in Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, New Jersey, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, West Virginia, Wisconsin, and Washington, D.C., and online. As of December 31, 2011, the Company had opened 78 of its campuses. STRA has also developed a robust online education program.

Back in November of 2011 Strayer joined forces with Jack Welch Management Institute. Feel free to read more about this relationship by clicking here. Also, watch the video below. Yet another reason to cough up some of your hard earned dollars by investing in STRA.

Strayer has been caught between the federal and short seller cross hairs but they have shown no signs of deterioration from the analysts following the stock. STRA expanded with eight additional new campuses during 2011. They increased their quarterly dividend from 75 cents to $1.

STRA is a high-quality company and should be around forever. Yes, there are no true guarantees, but if you are looking for a safe stock to invest in, which pays a 4.07% dividend yield and could triple in stock valuation over the course of the next few years, well then look no further than STRA.

Visit Strayer's homepage, here, and their Investor Relations webpage, here. Enjoy the videos below!