For-Profit Colleges

The role of college oversight bodies is in the spotlight as more large for-profit institutions look to reclassify as nonprofits.

Large childcare provider offers free tuition for day care center workers to pursue degrees in early childhood education -- with strings attached.

Education Department's decision to drop gainful-employment rule will mean lowest-performing programs keep $5.3 billion over next decade.

The Education Department's proposed rule would make students show that a college knowingly misled them while also restricting consideration of loan relief to borrowers in default.

Congress should pass the House GOP’s plan to overhaul the Higher Education Act, writes Daniel Elkins, who argues that veterans’ groups need to broaden their accountability focus beyond for-profit colleges.

By Daniel Elkins

Nonprofit National University System seeks to expand into online graduate and doctoral programs by buying for-profit Northcentral University.

Grand Canyon, a large, thriving Christian for-profit, will divide in two, with new nonprofit university giving for-profit company 60 percent of tuition in exchange for a broad range of support services.

Crisis-level student loan default rates among black borrowers and those who attended for-profits cannot be explained fully by students' backgrounds, study finds, including measures of income, employment and parental wealth.