The for-profit higher education industry was the target of a bruising report issued last week. The industry responded and challenged several of the report's numbers. Here are all the telling numbers they didn't contest.
When the Department of Education announced new rules requiring for-profit colleges to show they were placing graduates in jobs or else lose federal funding, the institutions criticized the regulation as arbitrary, and over the weekend, a federal judge agreed with them.
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