For-profit college scams
You need to read this article from The New York Times if you’re considering going to a trade school or for-profit college. One fast-growing American industry has become a conspicuous beneficiary of the...
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ABC News investigates for-profit colleges
ABC News has been investigating for-profit colleges like University of Phoenix, and they found plenty of evidence of problems similar to other for-profit college scams. Ads for online schools are all...
View ArticleFor-profit colleges that target the homeless?
We keep finding interesting stories around the problem of for-profit college scams. The latest is a report from BusinessWeek in the spring about how some recruiters for University of Phoenix and other...
View ArticleOnly 22 percent of students at for-profit colleges graduate
We’ve done a number of posts about for-profit college scams, so we aren’t too surprised by the terrible graduation rates reported in a new study. For-profit colleges graduated an average of 22 percent...
View ArticleBoth parties shill for the for-profit college industry
Some Democrats and Republicans are trying to scuttle attempts by the Obama administration to impose new rules on for-profit colleges to prevent abuses against students to rack up huge debt for dubious...
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New Rules are out for for-profit colleges
We’ve been highlighting some of the troubling news stories about for-profit college scams, and we’ve welcomed the notion of new rules governing the industry. The new rules from the Obama...
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For-profit colleges finally become politically toxic
For years, regulators and the Obama administration have been trying to reign in all of the abuses of for-profit colleges. In a nutshell, these colleges make big promises to students and then encourage...
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