EDMC took the Starbuck model and splattered a campus on every podunk town in the US. What they really need to do is consolidate. I know this might mean job losses but hear me out. If you took a place like California, they have 8 campuses. There are only 3 major cities in CA, Los Angeles, San Francisco and San Diego. If they cut it down to 3 bigger campuses, they would still retain a similar amount of students, still need just as many teachers but they could cut ALL the management. You dont need 8 presidents for 3 schools for example. Any why is there even an Art Institute in Sacramento? That is such a tiny town compared to San Francisco not too far away.
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If they condensed them down to 1/3rd the amount in key cities they could survive. Most college students will move anywhere if they really want to go to a specific school. And if they are not that motivated, then you dont want them in there anyway.
The San Francisco Bay Area include 9 other counties with a population of 7.44 million people. You are being to literal. San Francisco is the center of most colleges, activity, brain trust, skilled labor and creativity in norther California. Most people outside of California have not even a clue where San Jose is. Or if they do they something like "isnt that by San Francisco?" It's the logical place for AI which is already there. They should just close the others in the middle of nowhere and get a bigger campus.
The Sacramento MSA is about 2.2M. But if you want to put the campuses in the "big cities," San Francisco is smaller than San Jose, which is the 10th largest city in the United States.