For-profit higher education is a large, complex system of institutions, and its explosive growth over the last decade has made it a prominent force in shaping higher-education policy and practice. How ...

The Education Department has said that if only 45 percent of your graduates are repaying their loans, that's okay. But what we found out on Friday is that for-profit colleges overall only have a 36 ...

Earlier this month, Kamala Harris, California’s attorney general, filed a lawsuit against Corinthian Colleges Inc., a for-profit company that specializes in selling one product: education. In this ...

To most Americans, colleges like Grand Canyon University look pretty benign. But not to the Federal Trade Commission. Until recently, the FTC looked at this Phoenix-based institution and many others ...

Enrollment in for-profit colleges, while still a relatively small share of the higher-education market, has grown more than tenfold over the past decade. For-profit education companies are now in high ...

The Department of Education has proposed new regulations to protect students enrolled in for-profit institutions and certificate programs from being saddled with debt they can’t afford to repay. The ...

One now-closed Kansas City school isn’t representative of all these institutions, which are a better fit for some young people to learn. Getty Images The last four years of the Biden administration ...

Increasing numbers of for-profit service providers have begun to enter the education sector, performing tasks from collecting and analyzing standardized test data to providing tutoring and bus ...

Advocates and lawmakers introduced the Accountability for For-Profit Colleges bill package on Oct. 15, 2025, during a press conference outside Milwaukee's Arizona College of Nursing.

You have /5 articles left. Sign up for a free account or log in. Does the possible sale of the University of Phoenix to a public university system signal the demise ...

WHY IS “FOR-PROFIT” SUCH A BAD WORD IN EDUCATION? Call me crazy, but I thought making a profit was one of the most important things that a good business needed to do. Just because you run a business ...