Articles tagged: for-profit colleges
‘Fail State’ Delves into the Shadowy World of For-Profit Colleges
The film details how the for-profit college industry began, its rise to power and why legislative attempts to rein it in have had only limited success.
You’ve seen the ads: smiling, fresh-faced young graduates praising schools like DeVry University and Corinthian Colleges for changing their lives. In a 2008 T...Read More
How Do Technical College Grads Fare in the Job Market? It’s Complicated.
Texas' public technical colleges often promote their high job placement rates, but the real measure of their programs' success is more complex....Read More
Observer Radio Episode 71: Cashing In on Higher Education
John Savage dives into the for-profit college industry and discovers a business model that soaks up federal student aid to the detriment of taxpayers and the st...Read More
Can For-Profit Colleges Serve Students and the Bottom Line?
More than five years after she first contacted Everest Institute, Erica Martinez has two diplomas, thousands of dollars in student loan debt and no career in he...Read More