For Profit Diploma Mills Draining Federal Student Loan Kitty

[Hannah Bell]

Some of the for-profit bottom feeders who prey on the poor and even the homeless to recruit bodies for their worthless degrees have been outed. We must wonder what it will take to cut these money sinks off from the federal student loans that are making for profit college CEOs deliriously wealthy.

From the Chronicle of Higher Ed:

These 20 institutions could be found in violation of a new federal rule on student-loan defaults if it took full effect today instead of in 2014, as planned. The colleges could escape risk by lowering their default rates before then. Colleges in violation can lose eligibility for federal student aid.

For-profit institutions appear disproportionately affected by the new rule. Only three colleges named below are not for-profit: Benedict, Jarvis Christian, and Texas Colleges. An institution would violate the rule if for three consecutive years, 30 percent or more of its borrowers defaulted within three years of their scheduled start of repayment, or if the institution's default rate exceeded 40 percent in the most recent three-year period.

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