Minnesota requires anyone soliciting students for a private career school to hold a solicitor’s permit backed by a $2,000 bond filed with the Office of Higher Education. The 3% of $2,000 is below our minimum, so the price is just $275 flat. The application is five minutes.
















Permit bonds are the simplest thing in surety. Here is the entire process:
Business details and an effective date. That is the application — no financials, no credit check section, no follow-up.
Permit bonds like this are among the thousands of bond types that issue right after purchase. At most, 1–2 business days.
Your executed bond arrives by email, ready to file with the Office of Higher Education for your solicitor’s permit. Wet-ink original mailed on request.
3% of the $2,000 bond is $60 — below our $275 minimum, so you pay $275 per term. Fixed amount, fixed price, multi-year if you want it.
Minnesota licenses private career schools through the Office of Higher Education, and a person who solicits Minnesota students to enroll must first obtain a solicitor’s permit under Minn. Stat. 136A.825. The permit is conditioned on a $2,000 surety bond (or a $2,000 deposit with the commissioner of management and budget in lieu of bond).
The bond runs to the State of Minnesota and to any student who has a cause of action against the solicitor for breach of a contract or agreement made while soliciting. If a solicitor breaks an enrollment promise and a student is harmed, the student can recover against the bond.
The statute caps the surety’s aggregate liability at the $2,000 principal sum — it is a small, fixed permit bond. The permit expires one year after issuance and is renewed annually, so the bond must stay continuous; we track it and notify you ahead of expiration.
These are the actual issuing fields — no credit check section, because this bond doesn’t have one.
Start the application →If yours isn't here, the bond team can usually answer within the hour.
$275 flat, five-minute application, bond often issued in the same sitting. Free until issued.