With the annual cost of attendance at many private colleges and universities now exceeding $50,000, some of these schools are coming up with creative ways to get more low-income students to apply.
It is high school graduation season. Many of the new grads are among the 1 million people who will walk into a so-called "for-profit school" like Sanford Brown. As NewsChannel 5 I-Team reporter Farrah Fazal discovered, they may walk out with a piece of paper that is worthless.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo continued his push Tuesday to establish tax-free zones for businesses on college campuses in upstate New York, announcing that private universities will be selected to participate through a competitive process.
Small cap for-profit education stock Career Education Corp. (CECO) has one big advantage over both public and private schools plus it may have made a key reversal on the charts.
One of the nation's premier private universities has agreed to recognize a pro-life student organization – but only after the palable threat of legal action. Johns Hopkins University had denied the petition of Voice for Life on March 12 and 26, but the university's Student Government Association (SGA) Judiciary Committee granted approval last night.
The for-profit education industry is becoming a contrarian hotbed after the Department of Education's initial round of rule-making for the industry was not as strict as many investors had anticipated. However, the companies' reliance on Title IV funding is sure to sink them in the long run.
The number of students committing to private colleges is declining due to tuition spikes. In order to keep their classrooms full, private schools are offering more financial assistance to students.
For prestigious private colleges, where donations that top $100 million are increasingly common, $15 million might buy naming rights to a new building or a laboratory. But for a community college, a donation of that size is both rare and transformative, and so New York’s newest community college is getting a new name: the Stella and Charles Guttman Community College.
Downers Grove-based DeVry Inc., operator of private colleges and training schools, said in an SEC filing that its practices are being investigated by the attorneys general in Illinois and Massachusetts.
On Tuesday, Gov. Rick Scott's offices sent out a news release that declared, "Gov. Scott Announces Anthem Education Expansion in Fort Lauderdale, 70 New Jobs."
For-profit colleges expand access to higher education for some students who might not otherwise attend college, but the payoff can be meager. In fact, graduates of for-profit colleges' two-year programs earn about the same as those who ...
University of Indianapolis announced on Wednesday that it was no longer accepting new students to Indianapolis Athens College for the summer summer and that all undergraduate courses and most graduate courses would stop on August 31
The higher-education company DeVry Inc. is facing inquiries from the offices of the attorneys general of Illinois and Massachusetts, according to a corporate filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
Calliope Wong, a high school senior from Connecticut, has twice sent an application to the prestigious all-female Smith College, but her papers have been returned without even an official admissions review.
A group of 19 private colleges in Georgia have struck a deep transfer agreement with the state’s technical college system, guaranteeing admission to any student with a grade-point average of at least 2.5 and an associate of science or applied science from one of the state’s 25 technical colleges.
Wisconsin’s Educational Approval Board, which decides whether for-profit colleges can operate in the state, has shut down a committee that was charged with developing accountability standards for the colleges, the Wisconsin State Journal reported.
The Office of Admissions at New York University fielded a flurry of calls from rejected applicants who just couldn’t understand why they didn’t get into the prestigious private university. Some played the race card. Others just called and cried.
For-profit colleges look worse than ever following a study from Stanford's Caroline M. Hoxby and Harvard's Christopher Avery. The new study found that for-profit schools spend much less on instructional cost per student than all other schools.
For most of the past decade, private for-profit educational institutions were the fastest growing—and arguably the most visible—part of U.S. higher education.
For-profit colleges are finding it tougher to do business in general these days, but particularly in California. They’re feeling the effects of negative publicity about the for-profit sector, tighter federal regulatory controls, and a somewhat better economy, meaning that more people can find jobs without turning to college to learn new skills or improve existing ones.