Some public community colleges tend to have low graduation rates, for example, but they are inexpensive, so their student debt levels are very low, especially compared to for-profit programs.

Some marketing tactics of for-profit colleges can be very aggressive. If there's focus on a particular audience – like veterans and access to GI Bill benefits – that tends to be a red flag ...

The Trump administration is laying the groundwork for potentially exploitative accreditors to enter the federal financial aid ...

At issue is what's called the 90/10 rule, which limits how much of a for-profit school's revenue can come from federal student aid.

An example of those served by the for-profit education sector are students who are not prepared to go to college immediately after high school. Some want a college education but haven’t been ...

Some of them cried; some had mental breakdowns ... and now they were scooping up ill-begotten federal student aid via failing for-profit colleges. A simple equation summed up the for-profit ...