Colorado’s second-highest court upheld a $3 million penalty against a defunct for-profit college on Wednesday, agreeing the ...

We’ve seen this picture before, and it’s not pretty. For-profit colleges like Everest and ITT Tech descended on Milwaukee before and during the Great Recession. While their executives were paid ...

President Donald Trump's recent proposal to redirect federal funding from elite universities like Harvard to trade schools signals a significant shift in the US higher education landscape. While Trump ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON — The Department of Education on Thursday issued regulations governing for-profit colleges, a rapidly expanding education sector that has been criticized in Congress for allegedly providing ...

ITT Technical Institute campus seen closed after ITT Educational Services announced that the school had ceased operating, on Sept. 6, 2016, in Rancho Cordova, Calif. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, File) ...

This article was first published on NerdWallet.com. It’s an uneasy time for students of for-profit colleges. Mass school closures have dominated the headlines recently, and more uncertainty is on the ...

When Yasmine Issa found herself, at 24, unemployed and a recently divorced mother of twins, she turned to the Sanford-Brown Institute, a for-profit, or proprietary, college in White Plains, N.Y., that ...

Harvard students can expect to fork over $240,000 for a bachelor’s degree in women’s studies, while it costs about $20,000 to finish beauty school. But only one of these programs is subject to the ...

For-profit colleges are under national scrutiny for low graduation and job placement rates, as well as high loan default figures. Mindy Lucas is still paying off the debt from a for-profit college she ...

Robert Eitel has up until now refused to disclose he worked on borrower defense. A senior U.S. Department of Education official hired straight out of the for-profit college sector helped dismantle ...

Today’s Senate hearing about for-profit colleges provides something to think about for anyone who feels privatization is the Great Solution to what ails the U.S. education system. We’ve already heard ...