Question-and-Answer Session
Operator
Thank you, sir. (Operator Instructions). And for our first question, we will go to Brandon Dobell with William Blair.
Brandon Dobell - William Blair & Company
That's like being called out on conference call. But I really appreciate that's great. Thanks for...
Robert Silberman
You're welcome.
Brandon Dobell - William Blair & Company
I am not sure if it was bad fingers last time, but I think it not a lot of worst, but let us go with that. So, first off I'll throw you the obvious soft ball which is corporate reimbursement, and two parts there. One; if you've seen any impact on just the number of companies you are dealing with, on kind of an on going basis? And second; if there is any impact are you seeing that flow through in to how students are reacting to it? Are they changing their behavior with you in terms of more or less courses pulling out, does it in batch and re-catching those kinds of things?
Robert Silberman
Well, in the quarter, for our winter term enrollment, we actually had a higher rate of growth among our corporate alliance partners and we did overall. I mean that rate I forget exactly what it was, I think it was like 24, 25% versus 22% enrollment growth. So, we certainly haven't seen any negative impact in totality. We have more alliance partners. We haven't had any partners who have said that they wanted to limit or pull out of the program.
I mean it's a topic of great concern and focus, and all I can tell you is that, it's going fine for us. It's going great for us. I do know of one partner, who was involved with a merger. They had a... prior to the merger, had a tuition reimbursement amount per student which was well in excess of the IRS limit. I think it was $8,000 per year.
The entity they merged with, with that the IRS limit was, I think was about $5500 and that one entity as it rationalized, lowered its tuition coverage. But that is literally the only specific impact that I'm aware of and in terms of the overall support of the growth of the University, it couldn't be better.
Brandon Dobell - William Blair & Company
Do you think, this is an issue for students or this is an issue for us, right now?
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