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EnviroBat

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9. For-profit colleges are simply in the business of selling "degrees"...

Thu Nov 15, 2012, 10:22 AM

Nov 2012

I remember meeting with a recruiter at ITT Technical Institute. I was nothing but an elaborate sales pitch. I kept asking about the tuition costs, and the guy kept dodging the question until the end of his pitch. Then, after all else was said, he came back with "$1900 per credit hour..." I looked at him, stunned and asked, "Are you out of your fucking mind...?" I think for-profit colleges are a joke. I've taken some decent classes at DeVry, but the over-all value of education for the money was crap. Basically buy the class, buy the materials, read the books, take a test. And this is what passes for "education" now...

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Without Romney To Shield Them, For-Profit Colleges Must Face Reality [View all] unhappycamper Nov 2012 OP

du rec. nt xchrom Nov 2012 #1

For profit colleges are corporations liberal N proud Nov 2012 #2

The next bubble BeyondGeography Nov 2012 #3

so MrYikes Nov 2012 #4

I hope they fade away Stargazer09 Nov 2012 #5

Why education can never be "for-profit" adieu Nov 2012 #6

I believe I heard on the radio that Australia's system works that way Thor_MN Nov 2012 #8

For-Profit Prisons should be next tridim Nov 2012 #7

For-profit colleges are simply in the business of selling "degrees"... EnviroBat Nov 2012 #9

Yes! Johnny2X2X Nov 2012 #10

For-profit colleges are a pox on society catbyte Nov 2012 #11

They are suffering from the exposure. Lasher Nov 2012 #13

they filled a percieved hole in the traditional education market dembotoz Nov 2012 #12

It's the neverending quest of the rich for MORE, MORE! Viva_Daddy Nov 2012 #14

They're not colleges at all, they're just government guaranteed loan processing centers. Egalitarian Thug Nov 2012 #15