Just call me Joe East Coast – as I’ve been on the road the last few weeks traveling for PlattForm. One of my first stops was in Washington, DC to mingle with muckety-mucks from various career colleges for “Hill Day”. Hill Day is kind of like a meet-and-greet for education industry professionals. Each year around this time everyone who’s anyone converges upon our nation’s capitol to dazzle their local legislators about pertinent things pertaining to the career college sector.

While I was there I had mentioned to several mucketys and/or mucks that I was going from DC to NY to visit Trump University. Did you know “The Donald” has his own career col … er, check that, entrepreneurial college? Well, neither did I. And neither did 95% of the people I chatted up at Hill Day.

Turns out Trump University is a little hidden gem. And while no one I’d talked to had ever heard of it — clearly the school is doing well for itself. According to Trump University President Michael Sexton, the college has been open a little over three years and to date has had over 250,000 graduates. Yes, you read right. A quarter of a million people have either taken classes via Trump’s online classes or at his school located in the heart of Wall Street.

Here are a few more facts about Trump U:
30% of students are from outside the U.S — a majority from Asia. (Apparently, “The Apprentice” is HOT from Bejing to Bangkok. Go figure.)
Their most popular curricula is — duh! — Real Estate Moguling 101. (No, that’s not the program’s real name … but it is close enough.)
Due to incredible market demand, Trump University is rapidly expanding its curricula to include Personal Finance. (Suze Orman better watch her back! Girlfriend’s got competition.)

Read more on my Day at Trump University in Career College Central’s upcoming May edition. In the meantime, keep watching “The Apprentice” … The Donald needs all the viewers he can get now that Omarosa has (mercifully) been voted off.