Last week the for-profit behemoth University of Phoenix said it would close 115 locations. The move comes on the heels of a late September decision by Kaplan Higher Education to stop new enrollment at ...

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 ...

For-profit higher education is a large, complex system of institutions, and its explosive growth over the last decade has made it a prominent force in shaping higher-education policy and practice. How ...

The Education Department has said that if only 45 percent of your graduates are repaying their loans, that's okay. But what we found out on Friday is that for-profit colleges overall only have a 36 ...

Opinion articles provide independent perspectives on key community issues, separate from our newsroom reporting. One now-closed Kansas City school isn’t representative of all these institutions, which ...

Increasing numbers of for-profit service providers have begun to enter the education sector, performing tasks from collecting and analyzing standardized test data to providing tutoring and bus ...

WHY IS “FOR-PROFIT” SUCH A BAD WORD IN EDUCATION? Call me crazy, but I thought making a profit was one of the most important things that a good business needed to do. Just because you run a business ...

PRDO's recent earnings beat and raised guidance drove a stock surge, but the valuation now exceeds historical averages, raising caution. Despite strong financials and a capital-light, high-margin ...

As the number of for-profit educational institutions in the United States continues to grow, so does their presence and influence in Washington. For-profit institutions derive much of their funding ...

One now-closed Kansas City school isn’t representative of all these institutions, which are a better fit for some young people to learn. Getty Images The last four years of the Biden administration ...