A lawsuit filed this month in San Diego, Calif. alleges DeVry University Inc. leadership in the city bribed students and sought ways to work around fe...

A for-profit college suddenly shut down all its campuses last week, leaving Massachusetts and Maryland students out in the cold. Although we don't know all the facts yet, the school's abrupt demise appears to be a window into how lax standards in the for-profit college industry can harm students and taxpayers.

NEW YORK -- If all goes according to plan, Grand Canyon University's teams will play in a Division I athletics conference and its campus will maintain...

The College Student Rebate Act, introduced last week by Reps. George Miller (D-Calif.) and John Tierney (D-Mass.), would require colleges that spend l...

For-profit colleges' alleged support of increased accountability across all colleges and universities is yet another position that reeks of PR posturing by emphasizing some details at the expense of far more pertinent ones.

If we need more post-secondary education for more Americans we can and should invest in the nation's community college sector, not for-profit colleges.

After two year's worth of chairing frequently combative committee hearings on for-profit higher education, Sen. Tom Harkin's four-part report should come as no surprise. But there is more bad news for the industry.

Washington -- Students attending for-profit colleges are subject to subprime mortgage-like loans that saddle them with thousands of dollars in debt an...

The number of bachelors degrees given out by for-profit colleges skyrocketed by 418 percent since 2000, according to data from the National Center for...

We've heard all of the talking points that there are a "few bad apples" in the for-profit college business. See you in another twenty years, as we surely will table the debate on whether to further regulate for-profit colleges.

Students trying to improve their job prospects shouldn't be duped into taking on crushing debt in exchange for the promise of a future job that will probably never materialize. A

For-profit colleges have increased their lobbying against proposed Education Department rules to cut off federal financial aid to programs whose stude...

The U.S. Education Department said Friday it will take more time to finalize new regulations targeting for-profit college job-training programs, but e...

NEW YORK — Shares of for-profit education companies soared Friday after the Department of Education proposed new rules that should allow most sc...

The Education Department will propose much-anticipated regulations Friday that would cut off federal aid to for-profit college programs if too many of...

After graduating from the Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale, Carrianne Howard hoped to find a job in the video game industry. She did -- kind of. Fo...

The head of the U.S. Senate's education panel lashed out at the for-profit education sector in a congressional hearing on Wednesday after government i...