Brown Mackie College – Louisville is a member of the Brown Mackie College system of schools, which has a long history that extends back to the late 1800s.

The system began as a single school, Kansas Wesleyan School of Business, which began operation on Sept. 12, 1892.

In 1938, that school was incorporated as The Brown Mackie School of Business under the ownership of Mr. Perry E. Brown and Mr. A.B. Mackie, former instructors at Kansas Wesleyan University in Salina, Kansas.

In following years, the school that would become Brown Mackie College – Louisville and others that were to become part of the Brown Mackie College system of schools were operated by numerous organizations and eventually were united as a system under the parent company of American Education Centers (AEC), founded in 1993 and headquartered in Fort Mitchell, Kentucky.

In 2003, AEC was acquired by Education Management Corporation (EDMC) of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The system of schools was renamed Brown Mackie College in 2004.