Why do people attend "for profit" universities?

[clep3705]

The for-profits do a great job of marketing. They do a hard sell and are diligent at securing loans for students.

Tuition at some for-profits is close to the top private universities in the country.

State universities have contracted out the marketing of many degree programs to StateU - Online Degrees Information and Directory, which uses the same hard sell tactics. I used stateu.com to get information about two different academic programs. The marketing people were useless.

I considered taking one course at a for-profit university because they were the only ones offering the course on the weekend. I would have signed up. The salesperson said yes, I could take it, but I'd have to complete all of the prerequisites. I pointed out that I was currently taking the prerequisites at a public university. Then she said their degree seeking students all take this one other course (which she did not ever refer to as a prerequisite) before taking the course I wanted to take. I pointed out that I have a master's degree in that particular subject and that she dare not suggest that I needed to take a course in that field. I never heard back from her.