As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on May 25, 1999
                                        Registration No. 333-__________

                     SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
                           Washington, D.C. 20549
                             ___________________
                                  FORM S-8
                        REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER
                         THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933
                             ___________________
                          CORINTHIAN COLLEGES, INC.
           (Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
                             ___________________

             Delaware                               33-0717312
 (State or other jurisdiction of                 (I.R.S. Employer
  incorporation or organization)               Identification No.)

                      6 Hutton Centre Drive, Suite 400
                      Santa Ana, California  92707-5765
                               (714) 427-3000
 (Address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code, of
                  registrant's principal executive offices)
                             ___________________

            CORINTHIAN COLLEGES, INC. 1998 PERFORMANCE AWARD PLAN
                          (Full title of the plan)
                             ___________________

                               David G. Moore
                          Corinthian Colleges, Inc.
                      6 Hutton Centre Drive, Suite 400
                      Santa Ana, California  92707-5765
                               (714) 427-3000
   (Name, address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area
                         code, of agent for service)

                                  Copy to:
                              David A. Krinsky
                            O'Melveny & Myers LLP
                    610 Newport Center Drive, Suite 1700
                      Newport Beach, California  92660
                               (949) 760-9600
                             ___________________
                      CALCULATION  OF REGISTRATION  FEE
<TABLE>
<S>                 <C>         <C>           <C>            <C>
                                Proposed      Proposed
                                Maximum       Maximum
  Title of          Amount      offering      Aggregate      Amount of
  securities        to be       price         Offering       Registration
  to be registered  registered  per unit      Price          Fee

  Common Stock,     529,134(1)  $15.812 5(2)  $8,366,932(2)  $2,327(2)
  par value         shares
  $0.0001 per
  share
______________________________

    (1) This Registration Statement covers, in addition
        to the number of shares of Corinthian Colleges, Inc. Common Stock,
        par value $0.0001 per share (the "Common Stock"), stated above,
        options and other rights to purchase or acquire the shares of
        Common Stock covered by the Prospectus and, pursuant to Rule
        416(c) under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the
        "Securities Act"), an additional indeterminate number of shares
        which by reason of certain events specified in the Corinthian
        Colleges, Inc. 1998 Performance Award Plan (the "Plan") may become
        subject to the Plan.

    (2) Pursuant to Rule 457(h), the maximum offering
        price, per share and in the aggregate, and the registration fee
        were calculated based upon the average of the high and low prices
        of the Common Stock on May 18, 1999, as reported on The Nasdaq
        Stock Market and published in The Western Edition of The Wall
        Street Journal.

        The Exhibit Index for this Registration Statement is at page 8.

</TABLE>
<PAGE>
                             PART I

                   INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE
                    SECTION 10(a) PROSPECTUS


     The documents containing the information specified in Part
I of Form S-8 (plan information and registrant information) will
be sent or given to employees as specified by Rule 428(b)(1) of
the Securities Act.  Such documents need not be filed with the
Securities and Exchange Commission (the "Commission") either as
part of this Registration Statement or as prospectuses or
prospectus supplements pursuant to Rule 424 of the Securities
Act.  These documents, which include the statement of
availability required by Item 2 of Form S-8, and the documents
incorporated by reference in this Registration Statement
pursuant to Item 3 of Form S-8 (Part II hereof), taken together,
constitute a prospectus that meets the requirements of
Section 10(a) of the Securities Act.

                             PART II

                   INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE
                     REGISTRATION STATEMENT


Item 3.  Incorporation of Certain Documents by Reference

     The following documents of Corinthian Colleges, Inc. (the
"Company") filed with the Commission are incorporated herein by
reference:

     (a)  The prospectus forming a part of the Company's
          Registration Statement on Form S-1 filed with the
          Commission on July 21, 1998 (Registration No. 333-
          59505), including exhibits, as such Registration
          Statement may be subsequently amended (collectively,
          the "Form S-1 Registration Statement"), which contains
          audited financial statements for the Company's latest
          fiscal year for which such statements have been filed;

     (b)  The Company's Quarterly Reports on Forms 10-Q for the
          Company's quarterly periods ended December 31, 1998
          and March 31, 1999;

     (c)  The Company's Current Report on Form 8-K filed with
          the Commission on March 4, 1999; and

     (d)  The description of the Common Stock contained in the
          Company's Registration Statement on Form 8-A filed
          with the Commission on January 21, 1999 (which
          incorporates by reference the description of the
          Common Stock included under the caption "Description
          of Capital Stock" in the prospectus forming a part of
          the Form S-1 Registration Statement).

     All documents subsequently filed by the Company pursuant to
Sections 13(a), 13(c), 14 or 15(d) of the Securities and
Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the "Exchange Act"), prior to
the filing of a post-effective amendment which indicates that
all securities offered hereby have been sold or which
deregisters all securities then remaining unsold shall be deemed
to be incorporated by reference into this Registration Statement
and to be a part hereof from the date of filing of such
documents.  Any statement contained herein or in a document, all
or a portion of which is incorporated or deemed to be
incorporated by reference herein, shall be deemed to be modified
or superseded for purposes of this Registration Statement to the
extent that a statement contained herein or in any other
subsequently filed document which also is or is deemed to be
incorporated by reference herein modifies or supersedes such
statement.  Any such statement so modified or superseded shall
not be deemed, except as so modified or amended, to constitute a
part of this Registration Statement.

Item 4.  Description of Securities

     The Common Stock is registered pursuant to Section 12 of
the Exchange Act, and, therefore, the description of securities
is omitted.

Item 5.  Interests of Named Experts and Counsel

     Not applicable.

Item 6.  Indemnification of Directors and Officers

     The Company's Certificate of Incorporation provides that a
director of the Company shall not be liable to the Company or
its stockholders for monetary damages for breach of fiduciary
duty as a director except to the extent provided by applicable
law for any breach of the director's duty of loyalty to the
Corporation or its stockholders, for acts or omissions not in
good faith or which involve intentional misconduct or a knowing
violation of law, pursuant to Section 174 of the Delaware
General Corporation Law (the "DGCL") or for any transaction from
which such director derived an improper personal benefit.  Under
the DGCL, liability of a director may not be limited (i) for any
breach of the director's duty of loyalty to the Company or its
stockholders, (ii) for acts or omissions not in good faith or
that involve intentional misconduct or a knowing violation of
law, (iii) in respect of certain unlawful dividend payments or
stock redemptions or repurchases, and (iv) for any transaction
from which the director derives an improper personal benefit.
The effect of the provisions of the Company's Certificate of
Incorporation is to eliminate the rights of the Company and its
stockholders (through stockholders' derivative suits on behalf
of the Company) to recover monetary damages against a director
for breach of the fiduciary duty of care as a director
(including breaches resulting from negligent or grossly
negligent behavior), except as provided in the Company's
Certificate of Incorporation and in the situations described in
clauses (i) though (iv) above.  This provision does not limit or
eliminate the rights of the Company or any stockholder to seek
nonmonetary relief such as an injunction or rescission in the
event of a breach of a director's duty of care.  The Bylaws of
the Company provide that the Company will indemnify its
directors and officers to the fullest extent permitted by the
DGCL.

Item 7.  Exemption from Registration Claimed

     Not applicable.

Item 8.  Exhibits

     See the attached Exhibit Index at page 8.

Item 9.  Undertakings

     (a)  The undersigned registrant hereby undertakes:

         (1) To file, during any period in which offers or
              sales are being made, a post-effective amendment
              to this Registration Statement:

              (i)  To include any prospectus required by Section
                   10(a)(3) of the Securities Act;

              (ii) To reflect in the prospectus any facts or
                   events arising after the effective date of
                   the Registration Statement (or the most
                   recent post-effective amendment thereof)
                   which, individually or in the aggregate,
                   represent a fundamental change in the
                   information set forth in the Registration
                   Statement; and

              (iii)    To include any material information with
                   respect to the plan of distribution not
                   previously disclosed in the Registration
                   Statement or any material change to such
                   information in the Registration Statement;

              Provided, however, that paragraphs (a)(1)(i) and
              (a)(1)(ii) do not apply if the information
              required to be included in a post-effective
              amendment by those paragraphs is contained in
              periodic reports filed by the registrant pursuant
              to Section 13 or Section 15(d) of the Exchange Act
              that are incorporated by reference in the
              Registration Statement;

         (2) That, for the purpose of determining any liability
              under the Securities Act, each such post-effective
              amendment shall be deemed to be a new registration
              statement relating to the securities offered
              therein, and the offering of such securities at
              that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona
              fide offering thereof; and

         (3) To remove from registration by means of a post-
              effective amendment any of the securities being
              registered which remain unsold at the termination
              of the offering.

     (b)  The undersigned registrant hereby undertakes that, for
          purposes of determining any liability under the
          Securities Act, each filing of the registrant's annual
          report pursuant to Section 13(a) or Section 15(d) of
          the Exchange Act (and, where applicable, each filing
          of an employee benefit plan's annual report pursuant
          to Section 15(d) of the Exchange Act) that is
          incorporated by reference in the Registration
          Statement shall be deemed to be a new registration
          statement relating to the securities offered therein,
          and the offering of such securities at that time shall
          be deemed to be the initial bona fide offering
          thereof.

     (h)  Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising
          under the Securities Act may be permitted to
          directors, executive officers and controlling persons
          of the registrant pursuant to the provisions described
          in Item 6 above, or otherwise, the registrant has been
          advised that in the opinion of the Commission such
          indemnification is against public policy as expressed
          in the Securities Act and is, therefore,
          unenforceable.  In the event that a claim for
          indemnification against such liabilities (other than
          the payment by the registrant of expenses incurred or
          paid by a director, officer or controlling person of
          the registrant in the successful defense of any
          action, suit or proceeding) is asserted by such
          director, officer or controlling person in connection
          with the securities being registered, the registrant
          will, unless in the opinion of its counsel the matter
          has been settled by controlling precedent, submit to a
          court of appropriate jurisdiction the question whether
          such indemnification by it is against public policy as
          expressed in the Securities Act and will be governed
          by the final adjudication of such issue.

<PAGE>

                           SIGNATURES

     Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act, the
registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe
that it meets all of the requirements for filing on Form S-8 and
has duly caused this Registration Statement to be signed on its
behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the
City of Santa Ana, State of California, on the 29 day of April,
1999.



                              By:  /s/ David G. Moore
                                 David G. Moore
                                 President, Chief Executive
                                 Officer and Director


<PAGE>


                        POWER OF ATTORNEY

     Each person whose signature appears below constitutes and
appoints David G. Moore and Frank J. McCord, or either of them
individually, his or her true and lawful attorney-in-fact and
agent, with full powers of substitution and resubstitution, for
him or her and in his or her name, place and stead, in any and
all capacities, to sign any and all amendments (including post-
effective amendments) to this Registration Statement, and to
file the same, with all exhibits thereto, and other documents in
connection therewith, with the Commission, granting unto said
attorneys-in-fact and agents, full power and authority to do and
perform each and every act and thing requisite and necessary to
be done in and about the premises, as fully to all intents and
purposes as he or she might or could do in person, hereby
ratifying and confirming all that said attorneys-in-fact and
agents, or either of them individually, or his substitute or
substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue
hereof.

     Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act, this
Registration Statement has been signed below by the following
persons in the capacities and on the dates indicated.

<TABLE>

    <S>                    <C>                                <C>
    Signature              Title                              Date

  /s/ David G. Moore       President, Chief Executive         April 29, 1999
      David G. Moore       Officer and Director (Principal
                           Executive Officer)

  /s/ Paul R. St. Pierre   Executive Vice President,          April 29, 1999
      Paul R. St. Pierre   Marketing and Admissions,
                           Secretary, Director

  /s/ Frank J. McCord      Executive Vice President           April 29, 1999
      Frank J. McCord      and Chief Financial Officer
                           (Principal Financial and Accounting
                           Officer)

  /s/ Dr. Carol D'Amico    Director                          April 29, 1999
      Dr. Carol D'Amico

  /s/ Jack D. Massimino    Director                          April 29, 1999
      Jack D. Massimino

  /s/ Linda Arey Skladany Director                           April 29, 1999
      Linda Arey Skladany

  /s/ Loyal Wilson        Director                           April 29, 1999
      Loyal Wilson

</TABLE>
<PAGE>

                          EXHIBIT INDEX


Exhibit
Number               Description of Exhibit


4.1       Corinthian Colleges, Inc. 1998 Performance Award Plan
          (composite Plan document reflecting Amendment 1999-I
          to the Plan).

4.2       Corinthian Colleges, Inc. 1998 Performance Award Plan
          Form of Nonqualified Stock Option Agreement.

4.3       Corinthian Colleges, Inc. 1998 Performance Award Plan
          Form of Incentive Stock Option Agreement.

5.         Opinion of O'Melveny & Myers LLP (opinion re
          legality).

23.1      Consent of Arthur Andersen LLP (consent of
          independent
          auditors).

23.2      Consent of O'Melveny & Myers LLP (included in Exhibit
          5).

24.       Power of Attorney (included in this Registration
          Statement under "Signatures").

<PAGE>
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As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on May 25, 1999
                                        Registration No. 333-__________

                     SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
                           Washington, D.C. 20549
                             ___________________
                                  FORM S-8
                        REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER
                         THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933
                             ___________________
                          CORINTHIAN COLLEGES, INC.
           (Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
                             ___________________

             Delaware                               33-0717312
 (State or other jurisdiction of                 (I.R.S. Employer
  incorporation or organization)               Identification No.)

                      6 Hutton Centre Drive, Suite 400
                      Santa Ana, California  92707-5765
                               (714) 427-3000
 (Address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code, of
                  registrant's principal executive offices)
                             ___________________

            CORINTHIAN COLLEGES, INC. 1998 PERFORMANCE AWARD PLAN
                          (Full title of the plan)
                             ___________________

                               David G. Moore
                          Corinthian Colleges, Inc.
                      6 Hutton Centre Drive, Suite 400
                      Santa Ana, California  92707-5765
                               (714) 427-3000
   (Name, address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area
                         code, of agent for service)

                                  Copy to:
                              David A. Krinsky
                            O'Melveny & Myers LLP
                    610 Newport Center Drive, Suite 1700
                      Newport Beach, California  92660
                               (949) 760-9600
                             ___________________
                      CALCULATION  OF REGISTRATION  FEE
Proposed      Proposed
                                Maximum       Maximum
  Title of          Amount      offering      Aggregate      Amount of
  securities        to be       price         Offering       Registration
  to be registered  registered  per unit      Price          Fee

  Common Stock,     529,134(1)  $15.812 5(2)  $8,366,932(2)  $2,327(2)
  par value         shares
  $0.0001 per
  share
______________________________

    (1) This Registration Statement covers, in addition
        to the number of shares of Corinthian Colleges, Inc. Common Stock,
        par value $0.0001 per share (the "Common Stock"), stated above,
        options and other rights to purchase or acquire the shares of
        Common Stock covered by the Prospectus and, pursuant to Rule
        416(c) under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the
        "Securities Act"), an additional indeterminate number of shares
        which by reason of certain events specified in the Corinthian
        Colleges, Inc. 1998 Performance Award Plan (the "Plan") may become
        subject to the Plan.

    (2) Pursuant to Rule 457(h), the maximum offering
        price, per share and in the aggregate, and the registration fee
        were calculated based upon the average of the high and low prices
        of the Common Stock on May 18, 1999, as reported on The Nasdaq
        Stock Market and published in The Western Edition of The Wall
        Street Journal.

        The Exhibit Index for this Registration Statement is at page 8.
PART I

                   INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE
                    SECTION 10(a) PROSPECTUS

     The documents containing the information specified in Part
I of Form S-8 (plan information and registrant information) will
be sent or given to employees as specified by Rule 428(b)(1) of
the Securities Act.  Such documents need not be filed with the
Securities and Exchange Commission (the "Commission") either as
part of this Registration Statement or as prospectuses or
prospectus supplements pursuant to Rule 424 of the Securities
Act.  These documents, which include the statement of
availability required by Item 2 of Form S-8, and the documents
incorporated by reference in this Registration Statement
pursuant to Item 3 of Form S-8 (Part II hereof), taken together,
constitute a prospectus that meets the requirements of
Section 10(a) of the Securities Act.

                             PART II

                   INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE
                     REGISTRATION STATEMENT

Item 3.  Incorporation of Certain Documents by Reference

     The following documents of Corinthian Colleges, Inc. (the
"Company") filed with the Commission are incorporated herein by
reference:

     (a)  The prospectus forming a part of the Company's
          Registration Statement on Form S-1 filed with the
          Commission on July 21, 1998 (Registration No. 333-
          59505), including exhibits, as such Registration
          Statement may be subsequently amended (collectively,
          the "Form S-1 Registration Statement"), which contains
          audited financial statements for the Company's latest
          fiscal year for which such statements have been filed;

     (b)  The Company's Quarterly Reports on Forms 10-Q for the
          Company's quarterly periods ended December 31, 1998
          and March 31, 1999;

     (c)  The Company's Current Report on Form 8-K filed with
          the Commission on March 4, 1999; and

     (d)  The description of the Common Stock contained in the
          Company's Registration Statement on Form 8-A filed
          with the Commission on January 21, 1999 (which
          incorporates by reference the description of the
          Common Stock included under the caption "Description
          of Capital Stock" in the prospectus forming a part of
          the Form S-1 Registration Statement).

     All documents subsequently filed by the Company pursuant to
Sections 13(a), 13(c), 14 or 15(d) of the Securities and
Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the "Exchange Act"), prior to
the filing of a post-effective amendment which indicates that
all securities offered hereby have been sold or which
deregisters all securities then remaining unsold shall be deemed
to be incorporated by reference into this Registration Statement
and to be a part hereof from the date of filing of such
documents.  Any statement contained herein or in a document, all
or a portion of which is incorporated or deemed to be
incorporated by reference herein, shall be deemed to be modified
or superseded for purposes of this Registration Statement to the
extent that a statement contained herein or in any other
subsequently filed document which also is or is deemed to be
incorporated by reference herein modifies or supersedes such
statement.  Any such statement so modified or superseded shall
not be deemed, except as so modified or amended, to constitute a
part of this Registration Statement.

Item 4.  Description of Securities

     The Common Stock is registered pursuant to Section 12 of
the Exchange Act, and, therefore, the description of securities
is omitted.

Item 5.  Interests of Named Experts and Counsel

     Not applicable.

Item 6.  Indemnification of Directors and Officers

     The Company's Certificate of Incorporation provides that a
director of the Company shall not be liable to the Company or
its stockholders for monetary damages for breach of fiduciary
duty as a director except to the extent provided by applicable
law for any breach of the director's duty of loyalty to the
Corporation or its stockholders, for acts or omissions not in
good faith or which involve intentional misconduct or a knowing
violation of law, pursuant to Section 174 of the Delaware
General Corporation Law (the "DGCL") or for any transaction from
which such director derived an improper personal benefit.  Under
the DGCL, liability of a director may not be limited (i) for any
breach of the director's duty of loyalty to the Company or its
stockholders, (ii) for acts or omissions not in good faith or
that involve intentional misconduct or a knowing violation of
law, (iii) in respect of certain unlawful dividend payments or
stock redemptions or repurchases, and (iv) for any transaction
from which the director derives an improper personal benefit.
The effect of the provisions of the Company's Certificate of
Incorporation is to eliminate the rights of the Company and its
stockholders (through stockholders' derivative suits on behalf
of the Company) to recover monetary damages against a director
for breach of the fiduciary duty of care as a director
(including breaches resulting from negligent or grossly
negligent behavior), except as provided in the Company's
Certificate of Incorporation and in the situations described in
clauses (i) though (iv) above.  This provision does not limit or
eliminate the rights of the Company or any stockholder to seek
nonmonetary relief such as an injunction or rescission in the
event of a breach of a director's duty of care.  The Bylaws of
the Company provide that the Company will indemnify its
directors and officers to the fullest extent permitted by the
DGCL.

Item 7.  Exemption from Registration Claimed

     Not applicable.

Item 8.  Exhibits

     See the attached Exhibit Index at page 8.

Item 9.  Undertakings

     (a)  The undersigned registrant hereby undertakes:

         (1) To file, during any period in which offers or
              sales are being made, a post-effective amendment
              to this Registration Statement:

              (i)  To include any prospectus required by Section
                   10(a)(3) of the Securities Act;

              (ii) To reflect in the prospectus any facts or
                   events arising after the effective date of
                   the Registration Statement (or the most
                   recent post-effective amendment thereof)
                   which, individually or in the aggregate,
                   represent a fundamental change in the
                   information set forth in the Registration
                   Statement; and

              (iii)    To include any material information with
                   respect to the plan of distribution not
                   previously disclosed in the Registration
                   Statement or any material change to such
                   information in the Registration Statement;

              Provided, however, that paragraphs (a)(1)(i) and
              (a)(1)(ii) do not apply if the information
              required to be included in a post-effective
              amendment by those paragraphs is contained in
              periodic reports filed by the registrant pursuant
              to Section 13 or Section 15(d) of the Exchange Act
              that are incorporated by reference in the
              Registration Statement;

         (2) That, for the purpose of determining any liability
              under the Securities Act, each such post-effective
              amendment shall be deemed to be a new registration
              statement relating to the securities offered
              therein, and the offering of such securities at
              that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona
              fide offering thereof; and

         (3) To remove from registration by means of a post-
              effective amendment any of the securities being
              registered which remain unsold at the termination
              of the offering.

     (b)  The undersigned registrant hereby undertakes that, for
          purposes of determining any liability under the
          Securities Act, each filing of the registrant's annual
          report pursuant to Section 13(a) or Section 15(d) of
          the Exchange Act (and, where applicable, each filing
          of an employee benefit plan's annual report pursuant
          to Section 15(d) of the Exchange Act) that is
          incorporated by reference in the Registration
          Statement shall be deemed to be a new registration
          statement relating to the securities offered therein,
          and the offering of such securities at that time shall
          be deemed to be the initial bona fide offering
          thereof.

     (h)  Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising
          under the Securities Act may be permitted to
          directors, executive officers and controlling persons
          of the registrant pursuant to the provisions described
          in Item 6 above, or otherwise, the registrant has been
          advised that in the opinion of the Commission such
          indemnification is against public policy as expressed
          in the Securities Act and is, therefore,
          unenforceable.  In the event that a claim for
          indemnification against such liabilities (other than
          the payment by the registrant of expenses incurred or
          paid by a director, officer or controlling person of
          the registrant in the successful defense of any
          action, suit or proceeding) is asserted by such
          director, officer or controlling person in connection
          with the securities being registered, the registrant
          will, unless in the opinion of its counsel the matter
          has been settled by controlling precedent, submit to a
          court of appropriate jurisdiction the question whether
          such indemnification by it is against public policy as
          expressed in the Securities Act and will be governed
          by the final adjudication of such issue.
SIGNATURES

     Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act, the
registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe
that it meets all of the requirements for filing on Form S-8 and
has duly caused this Registration Statement to be signed on its
behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the
City of Santa Ana, State of California, on the 29 day of April,
1999.

                              By:  /s/ David G. Moore
                                 David G. Moore
                                 President, Chief Executive
                                 Officer and Director
POWER OF ATTORNEY

     Each person whose signature appears below constitutes and
appoints David G. Moore and Frank J. McCord, or either of them
individually, his or her true and lawful attorney-in-fact and
agent, with full powers of substitution and resubstitution, for
him or her and in his or her name, place and stead, in any and
all capacities, to sign any and all amendments (including post-
effective amendments) to this Registration Statement, and to
file the same, with all exhibits thereto, and other documents in
connection therewith, with the Commission, granting unto said
attorneys-in-fact and agents, full power and authority to do and
perform each and every act and thing requisite and necessary to
be done in and about the premises, as fully to all intents and
purposes as he or she might or could do in person, hereby
ratifying and confirming all that said attorneys-in-fact and
agents, or either of them individually, or his substitute or
substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue
hereof.

     Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act, this
Registration Statement has been signed below by the following
persons in the capacities and on the dates indicated.
Signature              Title                              Date

  /s/ David G. Moore       President, Chief Executive         April 29, 1999
      David G. Moore       Officer and Director (Principal
                           Executive Officer)

  /s/ Paul R. St. Pierre   Executive Vice President,          April 29, 1999
      Paul R. St. Pierre   Marketing and Admissions,
                           Secretary, Director

  /s/ Frank J. McCord      Executive Vice President           April 29, 1999
      Frank J. McCord      and Chief Financial Officer
                           (Principal Financial and Accounting
                           Officer)

  /s/ Dr. Carol D'Amico    Director                          April 29, 1999
      Dr. Carol D'Amico

  /s/ Jack D. Massimino    Director                          April 29, 1999
      Jack D. Massimino

  /s/ Linda Arey Skladany Director                           April 29, 1999
      Linda Arey Skladany

  /s/ Loyal Wilson        Director                           April 29, 1999
      Loyal Wilson
EXHIBIT INDEX

Exhibit
Number               Description of Exhibit

4.1       Corinthian Colleges, Inc. 1998 Performance Award Plan
          (composite Plan document reflecting Amendment 1999-I
          to the Plan).

4.2       Corinthian Colleges, Inc. 1998 Performance Award Plan
          Form of Nonqualified Stock Option Agreement.

4.3       Corinthian Colleges, Inc. 1998 Performance Award Plan
          Form of Incentive Stock Option Agreement.

5.         Opinion of O'Melveny & Myers LLP (opinion re
          legality).

23.1      Consent of Arthur Andersen LLP (consent of
          independent
          auditors).

23.2      Consent of O'Melveny & Myers LLP (included in Exhibit
          5).

24.       Power of Attorney (included in this Registration
          Statement under "Signatures").