Students Awarded $2.3 Million From For-Profit Schools
Kaplan Career Institute and Lincoln Technical Institute in Massachusetts settled a lawsuit with the Attorney General’s office over unfair practices performed at the institutions. According to the Boston Globe, both schools will pay former students [...]
Listen to Rapper Dee Rap About Sallie Mae Loans
Many former students find themselves paying a bill every month that they don’t want to pay. That bill is their Sallie Mae student loan bill. Most students rely on Sallie Mae to assist them in [...]
Higher One Ordered To Compensate Students
Higher One Ordered To Compensate Students Approximately 1.5 million students were paying fees in order to access their financial aid through Higher One Inc. The Federal Reserve and Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. is now ordering [...]
DeVry University Lawsuit Filed By The Federal Trade Commission CSD
According to the Federal Trade Commission, DeVry University used false advertising in their recruiting, which led students to believe they would be more likely to find a job with higher pay if they chose DeVry [...]
University Of Phoenix are still being watched, despite probation lift
Three months ago, the Pentagon placed the University of Phoenix on probation and would not allow the for-profit school to recruit on military bases or receive financial aid from the military program. The for-profit college [...]
Lawsuit filed against ITT Tech Exposes Deceptive Practices Against Students
A lawsuit was filed against ITT Tech, by former dean of academic affairs, Rodney Lipscomb. Lipscomb claimed that he was fired from the for-profit college, after continually voicing concerns about the fraudulent practices he was [...]
Defrauded Students Can Petition to Get Their Federal Loans Forgiven
A little known law, which forgives the debt for former students who are able to prove that their schools recruited them using false information, has become very popular in recent months. Over the last six [...]
Universities Are Being Sued By Former Students
Many young adults attend college with one goal in mind. They want to graduate and find a good paying job in the field they have a degree in. This may sound easy, but lately many [...]
Le Cordon Bleu Is Closing All U.S. Schools
One of the most famous cooking schools, Le Cordon Bleu, is closing all of their school campuses throughout the United States . It is one of the many for-profit colleges that have recently closed. Many [...]
Another For Profit School Gets Busted For Deceptive Practices
If you are one of 570,000 college students that have a One Account federal loan that you opened between May 4, 2012 and December 19, 2013 through Higher One, Inc., you could be receiving a [...]
Dade Medical College Owner Selling House After School Closure
Ernesto Perez was the owner of the Dade Medical College before it abruptly closed back on October 30th of this year. The college was mainly funded by grants and federal loans and lately had been [...]
For-Profit College Set To Pay For Operating As A “Recruitment Mill”
Education Management Corporation (EDMC), one of the nation’s largest for-profit college operators, has agreed to pay $95.5 million to settle a lawsuit brought against it by four whistleblowers on behalf of the U.S. government. The [...]
A Federal Report On How To Fix the Student Loan Crisis Is Finally Here
Last year, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau launched an inquiry into the state of the student loan industry by requesting public input on their experience dealing with servicers, lenders and educational institutions. After receiving and [...]
Student Loan Debt May Mean You’re In For More Robocalls Soon
If you currently owe money on federal student loans, you might want to brace yourself for an onslaught of automated collection calls soon. That’s because the 2016 budget bill that Congress is now considering has [...]
Settlement in For-Profit College Fraud Suit On Its Way
Sources say that Education Management Corporation, one of the largest for-profit college firms in the nation, is prepared to settle a case by state and federal prosecutors accusing the company of fraudulent activities that [...]
Were You Given the Best Financial Aid Options?
Students have a tendency to believe that whatever advice they receive from their financial aid counselor is a) their only option and b) in their best interest. Sadly, this is not always the case, as [...]
Truck Driving School Runs Private Student Loan Scam
In one of the saddest examples of unwitting students being left with high student loan debt and no real hope of landing a job to help pay it off, a truck driving school operating in [...]
For-Profit Schools Over-Promising and Under-Delivering
Over the past couple of decades, one thing that has certainly served to contribute to the current student loan crisis has been the prevalence of for-profit schools making pie-in-the-sky promises to students in order to [...]
I Wanted A Better Future
The reasons for going to college are different from one person to the next, but fundamentally, they almost always boil down to one thing: people just want a better future for themselves and their families. [...]
I Didn’t Even Know I Had Private Student Loans
For a lot of former college students, the maze of student lending can become so byzantine that it becomes very easy to lose track of the loans that you’ve taken out, who they were from [...]
Victims Of Vocational School Fraud
When the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau put out a request for the general public to submit statements describing their experiences with student loan debt, one of the people who replied was actually a man who [...]
The Real ITT
ITT Technical Institute has built an entire business out of its claims that it is there to “change people’s lives.” As a matter of fact, this for-profit college can honestly say that that’s what it’s [...]
I Graduated ITT With $90,000 in Private Student Loans
One of the most common complaints to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau regarding student loans has to do with for-profit colleges that are accused of misleading their students and saddling them with huge private loan [...]
Everyone Takes Out Student Loans
A common refrain that some financial aid officers use in order to soothe those who are worried about borrowing money to pay for their education is, “Everyone takes out student loans.” As if this [...]
Are You Being Threatened With Legal Action?
If you’re facing legal action due to outstanding student loans, it might serve as some small comfort to know that you’re not alone. Thanks to the current state of the private student loan industry, a [...]
American Career Institute Lawsuit
Lawsuits for alleged fraud and deception for Massachusetts American Career Institute claim the school was intentionally deceiving in order to get students to enroll as well as to gain accreditation. From falsified signatures and attendance [...]
University of Phoenix Under Fire From Student Veterans
An advocate group for veterans who are working toward their degree has started a petition on Change.org titled “Students, Not Stadiums.” Its aim is to make the University of Phoenix drop its multimillion dollar sponsorship [...]
Parent Company of For-Profit Colleges Settles Lawsuit By Investors
Education Management Corp., the parent company of well-known for-profit school The Art Institutes, has settled a lawsuit brought by shareholders who claim the company lied to them about complying with federal and state education laws [...]
It’s Time For Congress To Get Tough On For-Profit Colleges
The Great Recession prompted many people who were laid off to look into enrolling in college as a way of increasing their chances of finding a job. Since public schools around the nation were facing [...]
Sallie Mae Spinoff Facing Lawsuit Over Student Loans
In 2014, student loan behemoth Sallie Mae announced that it would spinoff a new company to originate its federally guaranteed education loans. The company would be called Navient and in its brief existence, it has [...]
Business Practices of For-Profit College are Questioned Once Again
If you thought that Apollo Education Group, the parent company of the University of Phoenix, was finally out of hot water with the authorities these days, think again. Apollo is now facing an investigation by [...]
Westwood Colleges Fraud and Lawsuit Complaints
redatory sales practices, fraud, and scamming students are what has hit the fan for Westwood College, a for-profit institution who targeted vulnerable students trying to better their lives. Enrollment counsellors hit students with high pressure [...]
Virginia College Fraud and Lawsuit Complaints
Virginia College is facing a lawsuit from seven of its students who claim that the school misrepresented the usefulness of its programs, duped its students, and has practices in place easily seen in its advertising [...]
Vatterott College Fraud and Lawsuit Complaints
Three former employees of Vatterott plead guilty in response to a federal indictment which had been filed February 5, 2009 in regards to claims that the individuals had committed fraud against the government. The former [...]
University of the Rockies Fraud Complaints
Fraud complaints concerning University of the Rockies are plentiful in online complaints boards from former students of the school. Students indicate that the for-profit university is taking advantage of those with disabilities to gain access [...]
University of Phoenix Fraud and Lawsuit Complaints
University of Phoenix may toot its horn declaring it is a great, convenient, work-at-your-own-pace education provider but that song they’re playing is beginning to fall on deaf ears. The volume of complaints, lawsuits, investigations, and [...]
United Education Fraud Complaints
Fraud complaints surrounding United Education have appeared in several online discussion forums and complaint forums in students’ efforts to try to prevent others from being duped by the school’s scams. Job placement and salary projects [...]
Brockton For-Profit School Sued for Misleading Students
A settlement has been reached with Sullivan & Cogliano, a Brockton for-profit school, after a lawsuit was launch which alleged that the school was misleading its students and using false information to entice potential students. [...]
Strayer University Lawsuit For Deceptive Practices
Strayer has made the list of for-profit schools facing lawsuits over their deceptive practices. Claims that the school has committed fraud and scammed its students are a bit unexpected when you look at the age [...]
Sanford Brown Deceptive Practices Complaints
Sanford Brown, one of the U.S.’s largest for-profit colleges announced in May 2015 that it will stop enrolling students at its remaining 14 campuses and close their doors. The company will focus instead on its [...]
Salter College Lawsuit for Inflated Employment Rates
A settlement reached in December 2014 with Salter College means that more than 600 of its former students will finally be free from their massive student loan debts. The settlement requires Salter to pay over [...]
Ross University of Medicine Fraud and Lawsuit Complaints
Ross University of Medicine, a for-profit school run in the Caribbean, certainly has its share of lawsuits. They don’t seem particularly concerned about the legal fees associated with all these suits, though. After all, they [...]
Remington College Fraud Complaints
Students in online complaint forums are saying that their time and money was wasted when they enrolled with Remington College. The school was sold to a non-profit college in 2011, but its time as a [...]
Redstone College Lies and Fraud Complaints
A class action suit against Redstone College consisting of over 700 former students and 50 employees was launched against the school for complaints of systemic fraud. Students claim they were lied to about accreditation, job [...]
Rasmussen College Misrepresent Program
Rasmussen College students aren’t particularly impressed with the school and claim they were cheated out of their money due to the school’s misrepresentation of its programs, their costs, and their usefulness. Students checking out the [...]
Platt College Deceptive Practices Complaints
Deceptive is the word most used to describe Platt College and its deceptive advertising and habit of misrepresenting its programs. Students interested in the school were told by enrollment of officials that Platt credits would [...]
Depression And Anxiety Called Student Loan Debt
Anyone who has struggled to repay their student loan debt can attest to the amount of pressure and negative consequences that can come from having this burden hanging over your head. Because the lending agencies [...]
For Profit Schools Under Investigation For Fraud
The United States Government Accountability Office or rather the [GAO] has been issuing reports about For-Profit Colleges since 2009, when the office started investigating allegations that were being brought to light against the colleges for [...]
Pioneer Pacific College Fraud Complaints
Pioneer Pacific college students both former and current have been forced to lodge their complaints in online complaints boards and have stated the school is nothing but a fraud. Students complained that the programs offered [...]
Pima Medical Institute Fraud Complaints
You know you’ve signed up for the wrong school when even it won’t accept its own credits. That’s what some students found when they attempted to enter the Nursing Program with Pima Medical Institute after [...]
Penn Foster College Fraud Complaints
Penn Foster College is a for-profit school whose former students indicate is committing fraud. Deceptive advertising and misrepresentation of the facts on the school’s website state that the school is properly accredited and that the [...]
Northwest College Fraud and Lawsuit Complaints
Students who graduated from Northwest College soon found out the hard way that the school had fudged its claims about job placement and how useful the college’s programs would be. Students of the school soon [...]
New England Fraud and Lawsuit Complaints
New England Institute students have sued the school with complaints of fraud. A four year degree at the school has cost many as much as $100,000-180,000 many of which can’t pay the loans back as [...]
National American University Fraud
Fraud and scam are the words coming out of former National American University students’ mouths. Online complaint boards are amass with claims that the school would add mysterious fees to student accounts, not tell them [...]
Lincoln Technical Institute Fraud and Lawsuit Complaints
Individual and class action lawsuits keep popping up on the horizon which claim that Lincoln Technical Institute has committed fraud against their students. Students were led to believe that their education with this company was [...]
Le Cordon Bleu
Want to earn $75,000 a year working as a head chef after graduation Le Cordon Bleu’s culinary program? That very Le Cordon Bleu scam is the very reason this school has had plenty of time [...]
Keiser University Fraud Complaints
Keiser University has come to an agreement with Florida Attorney General, Pam Bondi in regards to claims of fraud at its Fort-Lauderdale campus. Former students claim the school misled them into enrolling for useless programs [...]
Keiser Career College Fraud Complaints
Keiser Career College recently reached a settlement for actions brought against the school by Florida Attorney General, Pam Bondi. The settlement means that Keiser will have to provide retraining at no extra cost for many [...]
Kaplan Career College Consumer Complaints
Prior to applying for university or college it is advisable that all potential students thoroughly research the school they are looking at. One way in which to do this is to do a simple online [...]
Kaplan Career Institute Fraud Complaints
Kaplan Career Institute and parent company APSCU are facing multiple whistle blower suits, class action suits, and government investigations for alleged fraud. The complainants have stated that Kaplan created students that never existed to rip [...]
Jones International University Fraud Complaints
Students of Jones International University (JIU), a for-profit school, received notification on March 31, 2015 that the school would be closing its internet-based doors. This announcement was as a result of a 55% in enrollment [...]
ITT Technical Institute Fraud and Lawsuit Complaints
ITT Technical Institute certainly knows how to create eye-catching commercials and with all the complaints and lawsuits it is also becoming well known as being an institution which scams students with its predatory lending practices [...]
International Academy of Design and Technology Fraud Complaints
International Academy of Design and Technology (IADT) has faced plenty of lawsuits in recent years and has constant complaints of fraud cast against it by former and current students. Many former students complain that the [...]
Herzing University Fraud Complaints
Herzing University, a for-profit college based in Milwaukee, settled its lawsuit with in Minnesota over claims its medical assistant program was misleading students. Students entering the program believed they would be accredited and certified to [...]
Grand Canyon University Scam
When you think of a Christian school the words that come to mind aren’t usually scam, lawsuit, or disrespect for students but apparently this doesn’t apply to Grand Canyon University. The for-profit Christian college has [...]
Globe University Fraud and Lawsuit Complaints
Globe University reached the end of the appeals line when the Minnesota Supreme Court denied its appeal concerning the previous ruling in the case of Heidi Weber versus Globe University. The former dean turned whistleblower [...]
Fraud Claims against Ashford University
Ashford University and its parent company, Bridgepoint Education, have faced allegations and claims of fraudulent activity by Tom Miller, Iowa Attorney General, in regards to Ashford University’s high-pressure sales tactics, misuse of federal student aid [...]
Fast Train Scams Students
Fast Train College may have had, “Get on the Fast Train!” as its jingle but it certainly wasn’t assumed by those hearing it that it meant get on the fast train to debt and fraud. [...]
Devry University Fraud and Lawsuit Complaints
The name Devry University is popping up in ways that aren’t being used to promote it as a viable education option. Subject of many investigations, this university is weighed down under a mountain of complaints [...]
Corinthian College Predatory Lending Lawsuit
Corinthian College is facing a lawsuit which alleges that it duped students into taking more than $560 million in loans for education they would not gain successful employment with, that it used predatory and misleading [...]
Computertraining.com Deceptive Practices
Much to everyone’s utter shock, Computertraining.com students and employees showed up to class and work only to find the doors locked and no one answering phones. A class action lawsuit was launched on April 14, [...]
Computer Systems Institute Rip-off
Computer Systems Institute’s claims turned out to be nothing more than a catchy list of opposites the school would rip its students off with. From statements that their institution provided ample class and lab time [...]
Collins College Fraud Complaints
Online discussion boards and Facebook groups have been filled with former Collins College students who indicate that the college was a scam and committed fraud . One Facebook group in particular is focused on gaining [...]
CHI Institute Commits Fraud
Kaplan Inc. has gotten its fingers slapped again, this time for its CHI Institute school for a lawsuit regarding its surgical technology program. The lawsuit was filed after a whistleblower reported that the school was [...]
Charter College Student Ripped Off
Westwood College has faced lawsuits concerning allegations that the school ripped off its students. The school used high-pressure enrollment and sales tactics, deceptive marking that was misleading, and promised students lucrative salaries and successful job [...]
Carrington College Student Deceived
Carrington College…the school that claims itself as the starting point for careers in healthcare but delivers only student loan debt and useless pieces of paper…eventually. This school may claim it provides high quality education to [...]
Capella University Complaints
Capella University complaints are certainly making a buzz online and the angry hive of bees making them is preparing to make their legal attack against the university. Many student complaints indicate that this scam school [...]
Brown-Mackie College Lawsuit
While many Brown-Mackie College locations still remain open for business, parent company Education Management Corp. has decided to close several of its campuses due to declines in enrollment. Closing locations stopped accepting new applicants January [...]
Argosy University Lawsuit
A 2009 lawsuit filed in Dallas was settled in December 2013 between former students and Argosy’s parent company, EDMC. The lawsuit was launched due to complains that students enrolled in doctorate programs were led to [...]
Brooks Institute Deceives Student with Hidden Loan Terms
Apparently the settlement resulting from their 2005 A lawsuit wasn’t enough for Brooks Institute of Photography. Although the school was forced to pay out approximately $12, 250,000 in settlement for complaints leading all the way [...]
