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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001013934-25-000009"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "STRA"
cik: "0001013934"
company_name: "Strategic Education, Inc."
filed_at: "2025-03-03T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-25T16:41:33.891897+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.5
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Strategic Education dismisses PwC, appoints Deloitte as auditor for FY2025

## Summary
- On Feb 27, 2025, the Audit Committee dismissed PwC as independent auditor, effective immediately.
- On Feb 25, 2025, the Committee approved engaging Deloitte & Touche for the fiscal year ending Dec 31, 2025.
- PwC's reports for FY2024 and FY2023 were unqualified; no disagreements or reportable events occurred.
- No consultations with Deloitte occurred prior to engagement on any accounting or auditing matter.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001013934-25-000009
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: STRA
- cik: 0001013934
- company_name: Strategic Education, Inc.
- filed_at: 2025-03-03T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.5
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 4.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1013934/000101393425000009/0001013934-25-000009-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1013934/000101393425000009/stra-20250227.htm

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## Key facts
- Auditor Changes
  Strategic Education, Inc. dismissed PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as its auditor.
  - Action: dismissal
  - Auditor: PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
  - Successor: Deloitte & Touche LLP
  source text: the Committee approved the dismissal of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (“PwC”) as the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm. PwC was dismissed on February 27, 2025.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1013934/000101393425000009/0001013934-25-000009-index.htm
- Auditor Changes
  Strategic Education, Inc. engaged Deloitte & Touche LLP as its auditor.
  - Action: engagement
  - Auditor: Deloitte & Touche LLP
  source text: On February 25, 2025, the Audit Committee approved the engagement of Deloitte & Touche LLP (“Deloitte”) as the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2025
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1013934/000101393425000009/0001013934-25-000009-index.htm

This AI-assisted summary is a reading aid. Review the linked SEC EDGAR filing before relying on any specific claim.