ITT Educational Buys Benchmark Learning Solutions

ITT Educational Services, Inc. ("ITT/ESI")

, a leading provider of technology-oriented postsecondary degree programs, today announced that, on August 1, 2013, it acquired Cable Holdings, LLC, doing business as Benchmark Learning, a Minneapolis-based IT and business training company. Benchmark Learning offers short-term IT and business learning solutions for career advancers and other professionals. The acquisition of Benchmark Learning supports ITT/ESI's growth strategy of increasing access to high-quality, career-based education.