For-Profit Colleges Continue to Harm Poor Students

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This is why statistics is important. We're comparing a sector where 51% of colleges have graduates who will never see a positive ROI, on average, to a sector where 80% of colleges have a positive ROI in 10 years. We're comparing a sector where, overall, the graduation rate is below 50% to a sector where the graduation rate is over 60%. You can nitpick, but it won't change the fact that the majority of for-profit colleges are failures, and the public sector, as a whole, performs much better. 

If you were choosing a high school for your kid, would you send your kid to the school with a 30% graduation rate or to the school with a 60% graduation rate? It looks like you would see these two schools as equals because they don't graduate everyone. 

Statistics can be misleading too. 

WGU graduation rate is either 21% or 50% depending on which statistics you look at.

https://www.scholarships.com/colleges/we...ion-rates/

https://www.wgu.edu/student-experience/g...rates.html

These statistics probably fail to account if students transfer to another university and graduate later on.

WGU is a good school with a good reputation.

Capella owns Sophia.org  A lot of us here benefited from Sophia courses.