Wall Street made billions investing in crooked colleges. Students were left with worthless degrees and a mountain of debt.

See more stories on Insider's business page ... notable investigations of fraud among other major for-profit schools: Corinthian Colleges Founded in 1995, Corinthian Colleges once had more ...

They found that for business graduates, an online for-profit degree was 22 percent less likely to get a callback than a degree in a similar field from a non-selective public college. For jobs in ...

For-profit college agrees to pay %245 million 4%2C000 ... who now runs a residential and commercial cleaning business. In court records, former employees said the school engaged in "dishonest ...

On Monday, the U.S. Department of Education announced that it’s establishing a new office to address the complaints of students who attended for-profit colleges. In particular, this new ...

where the for-profit colleges, because they're Wall Street companies ... have a lot of sympathizers among Republican supporters of free enterprise and big business. And because they serve low ...

Related: How ITT Tech went up in smoke For-profit colleges usually offer career-oriented programs in subjects like nursing, criminal justice, business, and information systems and technology.

Federal and state authorities announced a $95.5-million settlement Monday with the nation’s second-largest chain of for-profit colleges. The settlement with Education Management Corp. resolves a ...

Rockefeller Sr., completed a course at one such school, Folsom's Business College in Cleveland, 1855. But these days, for-profit colleges are under fire. Federal investigations found many for ...

four-year state schools actually saw an increase in business even as two-year institutions expanded into their terrain. But for-profit, private universities generally took a big hit. While four-year ...

Unscrupulous for-profit colleges engage in highly deceptive marketing ... the Federal Trade Commission have exposed the avaricious business practices that motivate these bad actors.

Under President Trump's education policies, for-profit colleges are positioned for rapid growth due to relaxed accreditation ...