Blue Cliff College is a for-profit technical school with campuses located in Gulfport, Mississippi, Fayetteville, Arkansas, and five locations in Louisiana: Lafayette, Shreveport, Houma, Metairie, and Alexandria. The college offers diplomas for careers in Cosmetology, Esthetics, Dialysis Technician, Health Information Management, Billing and Coding, HVAC, massage therapy, medical assisting. The name of the college is taken from an ancient Zen text, the Blue Cliff Records, containing dialogues between Zen masters and their students.