For-profit colleges are businesses that aim to generate profit for their owners and investors. These colleges offer career training and degrees, but they've been subject to criticism and, in some ...

Enrollment at for-profit colleges rose significantly in fall 2024, especially among freshmen, according to the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center. Four-year, for-profit colleges ...

Amid his ongoing assault on elite “woke” colleges, President Donald Trump mused Monday that he might redirect some of Harvard University’s now suspended federal funding to trade schools—institutions ...

Commercial schools have been around for centuries, providing training in fields like accounting and construction that loftier educational institutions did not always offer. America’s first billionaire ...

To most Americans, colleges like Grand Canyon University look pretty benign. But not to the Federal Trade Commission. Until recently, the FTC looked at this Phoenix-based institution and many others ...

Anti-market advocates have proved themselves allergic to “profit,” especially when it comes to education. They have harmed millions of students by forcing successful colleges to close. They have also ...

The education policy portion of Republicans' "big, beautiful" Trump administration agenda bill could incentivize for-profit colleges to take advantage of veterans again years after a loophole used by ...

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