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                                                                    EXHIBIT 23.2

EXPLANATION CONCERNING ABSENCE OF CURRENT WRITTEN CONSENT OF ARTHUR ANDERSEN LLP

On March 25, 2002, Career Education Corporation (the "Company") announced that
it had appointed Ernst & Young LLP to replace Arthur Andersen LLP ("Arthur
Andersen") as its independent public accountants. Representatives of Arthur
Andersen are not available to provide an updated written consent required for
the incorporation by reference of Arthur Andersen's audit report with respect to
the Company's financial statements as of December 31, 2001 and for the years
ended December 31, 2001 and December 31, 2000 included in this Annual Report on
Form 10-K/A for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2002 into registration
statements filed by the Company and declared effective under the Securities Act
of 1933, as amended (the "Securities Act"). Because, after reasonable effort,
the Company is unable to obtain Arthur Andersen's written consent to such
incorporation by reference of their report, Rule 437a under the Securities Act
permits the Company to omit Arthur Andersen's updated written consent from this
filing.

Section 11(a) of the Securities Act provides that if any part of a registration
statement at the time it becomes effective contains an untrue statement of a
material fact or an omission to state a material fact required to be stated
therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading, any person
acquiring a security pursuant to such registration statement (unless it is
proved that at the time of such acquisition such person knew of such untruth or
omission) may sue, among others, every accountant who has consented to be named
as having prepared or certified any part of the registration statement or as
having prepared or certified any report or valuation which is used in connection
with the registration statement with respect to the statement in such
registration statement, report or valuation which purports to have been prepared
or certified by the accountant.

While Arthur Andersen did consent to the incorporation by reference of its
audit report with respect to the Company's financial statements as of
December 31, 2001 and for the years ended December 31, 2001 and December 31,
2000 contained in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal
year ended December 31, 2001 into registration statements filed by the
Company and declared effective under the Securities Act, as noted above,
Arthur Andersen has not consented to the incorporation by reference of such
audit report contained in this Annual Report on Form 10-K/A for the fiscal
year ended December 31, 2002. As a result, with respect to such registration
statements the Company's investors may not be able to recover against Arthur
Andersen under Section 11(a) of the Securities Act or the lack of a currently
dated consent may limit the time in which any liability under Section 11(a)
could be asserted against Arthur Andersen.