For-Profit Higher Education in the United States: Turmoil in the Wake of the Financial Crisis

For-profit postsecondary education rapidly expanded in the decade preceding the 2008 financial crisis. For-profit institutions enrolled 9% of undergraduate students in 2009, up from 3% in 2000. This growth that was promising is now troubling. Significant enrollment declines in 2010-2012, in light of...

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Main Author: Krier, Kevin R.
Format: Others
Published: Scholarship @ Claremont 2012
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Online Access:http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/447
http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1455&context=cmc_theses