It's the for-profit University of Phoenix, which has recently been spending nearly $400,000 a day on ads, according to search analytics firm SpyFu, more than any financial firm or retailer, the traditional big spenders on online advertising.
After a two-year investigation of the for-profit higher education industry, Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) on Monday unveiled an exhaustive report on the colleges' business practices, highlighting schools that charge excessively high tuition and shortchange academic investments in order to maximize revenues.
National University College-Online, a Puerto Rico-based private, for-profit college, is expanding into Hispanic communities across the United States through its online division.
National University College-Online, a Puerto Rico-based private college, is expanding into Hispanic communities across the U.S. through its online division. Both Arizona and Florida are on the for-profit college’s list for that growth, according to a story in our sister paper, New Mexico Business Weekly.
One of the world's largest owners of for-profit colleges has bought East San Jose's National Hispanic University, throwing the idealistic but struggling campus into the growing and controversial world of corporate education.
In an apparent first, the for-profit higher-education industry has begun collecting data on the salaries of its college administrators. Last month, at the Career College Association's annual meeting here, it released some of the initial findings -- with some strong caveats.
A private Indian university plans to open a campus for 15,000 foreign students in London, it was announced today as Boris Johnson continued his whirlwind tour of the country to promote links with the United Kingdom.
Private-college presidents often draw scrutiny for their hefty compensation packages, but most of them have a ready comeback: I could make a lot more money in the corporate world.
Manipal Global Education Services, the Rs 1,200 crore higher education major, is looking to spin off its overseas arm into a separate entity. The overseas arms with operations in Malaysia, Nepal, Antigua and Dubai contribute as much as 55 per cent to the revenues and this will be the precursor to raising $100 million through the private equity route in the overseas arm.
Eight Democratic senators are urging the U.S. Department of Education to investigate the tactics they say some for-profit colleges use to artificially lower the rate at which their former students default on federal student loans.