MN career school solicitor bonds.
Individual. From $100.
If you solicit students one-on-one for a Minnesota private career school, you need a solicitor's permit from the Office of Higher Education — and that permit requires a $2,000 surety bond under Minn. Stat. 136A.825. The bond is priced at 1% of the bond amount, $100 minimum — your exact price appears in the on-page calculator.
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No underwriting queue for the solicitor bond — enter your amount, pay, and file with the Office of Higher Education. Here is the whole thing:
Apply online
Your details as the individual solicitor, the $2,000 bond amount, and the effective date — that is the entire application.
Issued on the spot
No credit information collected and no waiting — most applicants get the executed bond as soon as they pay.
File with the Office of Higher Education
Submit the executed bond with your solicitor permit application. Wet-ink originals mailed whenever the office insists on them.
What it is and who needs it.
What the solicitor bond actually guarantees
Minnesota requires anyone who solicits students to enroll in a registered private career school to first obtain a solicitor's permit from the Office of Higher Education. Under Minn. Stat. 136A.825, no permit issues unless the solicitor files a continuous corporate surety bond of $2,000.
The bond is conditioned on the faithful performance of all contracts and agreements with students you make. A student harmed by a breach of one of those agreements has a cause of action against the bond — the surety's aggregate liability is capped at the $2,000 penal sum.
When the principal is an individual, the bond is written in your name. The statute also lets you deposit $2,000 with the commissioner of management and budget instead of a bond, but a surety bond costs only the premium rather than tying up the full amount in cash.
You need this bond if you are
One application, issued on the spot.
Submit the application with the $2,000 statutory amount — the executed bond is generated instantly, ready to file with the Office of Higher Education.
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Pricing from $100. Enter the $2,000 amount and file with the Office of Higher Education the same day.