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Monday, October 22, 2012

Enrollment Falling At For-Profit Colleges

When the University of Phoenix, the country’s largest university, announced this week it’s closing 115 campuses and satellite locations, it signaled more than a sudden availability of commercial real estate near highway interchanges, where for-profit colleges like to set up shop as a student convenience.

After years of explosive growth that really caught fire when the economy collapsed four years ago, for-profit higher education is shrinking fast.

That’s not a good thing for providers like Phoenix, at least in the short run. Whether it’s good for them, for students, and for the economy in the long run — well, that depends whom you ask.

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2 comments:

Anonymous said...

That explains why I have'nt seen their commercials lately.

Queensgirl52 said...

Oh, how sad! All those nasty regulations keeping the poor colleges from making even more money by ripping people off.