Graduates from the medical assistant program at Vatterott College, a large for-profit with campuses across the Midwest, have struggled to gain a foothold in their career a few years after leaving. Those who completed their associate degree in medical assisting between 2010 and 2012 had typical annual earnings of just over $13,000 two years later. […] … learn more→
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Measuring up
Forget gainful employment. For-profits should restructure instead.
Problems with for-profit colleges are receiving a great deal of attention in education news, and most of the conversation revolves around increasingly modest federal \”gainful employment\” rules that judge college programs based on their graduates’ debt levels. The Association of Private Sector Colleges and Universities is aggressively lobbying lawmakers to further weaken the standards to […] … learn more→
