Tressie McMillan Cottom worked in enrollment at two for-profit colleges, but quit because she felt uncomfortable selling students an education they couldn't afford. Her new book is Lower Ed.

In 2010, for-profit education made up 8% of the total student enrollment in the U.S. but as of spring 2018, that number comes in closer to 5% in a population with fewer students enrolled, across ...

Those who have a college degree in the U.S. have a significant earning-power advantage over those who don’t, but an overwhelming number of graduates find themselves saddled with debt they accumulated ...

Most critics of for-profit actors in higher education have yet to take serious notice of the growing role the companies are playing on traditional campuses, adds Mr. Klor de Alva.

He's the CEO of Strayer Education, a for-profit college with 42,000 students and a better reputation than most. "We like to think we're a good actor.

For-profit education is bigger than those chains, though. Depending on how you cut it, it’s 5 percent of total enrollment. It’s not as big as the public policy debate would have you think. But the ...

For-profit Stratford University to close: It blames the Education Department for its end Students at for-profit universities were more likely to learn about their colleges or schools from ...

The Chronicle showed Mr. Wood’s model to several experts on for-profit higher education, making clear to them the limitations that the author himself has acknowledged. Several of those people ...

“For-profit education providers have begun to prove that their businesses – historically strong only in bad economic environments – can not only be profitable in good times but can achieve ...

Leaders of private, largely for-profit colleges that don't operate responsibly will be personally liable for their contributions to the student loan debt and default crisis, the Education ...

The Department of Education has proposed new regulations to protect students enrolled in for-profit institutions and certificate programs from being saddled with debt they can’t afford to repay ...