Should for profit college that deliberately mislead their students be shut down?

[chepito]

Think about it, they are encouraging students to take out government loans that most of them will not be able to pay back, thereby increasing the national debt and the tax burden. But this is just a mechanism of the market right? The vast majority of people who go to these "schools" cannot pay for them on their own (probably because most people who can are capable of enrolling at a legitimate school), and the vast majority of them do not get the kind of jobs they are told will be able to get.

They furthermore plaster ads all over youtube and television trying to force it down our throats what "great" institutions they are. What a crock. Full Sail, Brookline, Carrington, and so on... and if they are so great, WHY were they all founded AFTER 1980 (when most legitimate colleges in the US were founded before 1900)? It's just another example of what happens when an economy is overliberalised (liberalise I mean in the deregulation sense) and it comes back to the consumer as an externality. The CEO's of these companies that own them should be speaking in front of a Senate committee instead of sitting in the mansions they own off the broken dreams of already disadvantaged students and YOU the taxpayer. Both libs and cons should be more vocal about this.

I'm starting college this fall and I would NEVER in a million years go to one of these schools. And the worst part is...there's no reason anyone has to.

[jasper]

Yes.

[yago]

At what point in your life should you be responsible for your own decisions?

[ashly]

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[fitche]

How about the not for profit colleges who deliberately mislead students? 1 out of every 2 college grads can't find a job.

[westbroc90]

No. Students should just walk away from those types of institutions.

[abisha]

And just how are US working class student saps any different from US working class working saps? Shut down the US richclass owned and operated school only after you shut down Goldman Sachs.

[treasigh]

I agree, they should be shut down. I constantly see commercials for Devry, Pheonix, and ITT Tech. Honestly, they let anyone in and they pass people no matter what. Apparently, some student's of Cordon Bleu couldn't even boil water by the time they graduated.

This is in addition to the fact that many "professors" don't have anything beyond a BA degree, and most credits from these "schools" don't transfer to legitimate Universities if students even want to make that change.

It is a big scam, and its sad because some young people who cannot get into traditional Universities or trade schools will go here thinking its a great idea.

[lalla3]

The really shameful part is that many of these colleges go after GI Bill money, because the accreditation requirements for the colleges where the money is used aren't as stringent. So we have veterans who have put their lives on the line, have these meager benefits which are woefully inadequate to begin with, being screwed out of said benefits and nobody is doing anything about it.

[jan46]

Shut down? Perhaps not. But perhaps there should be more of an incentive for them to be honest in their recruiting. For instance, if more than a certain percentage of students getting federally subsidized student loans drop out, the school should be forced to take over their loans. That would stop them. .