Tuition and fees at for-profit colleges averaged $15,130 in 2013-2014, according to the College Board.
Not all press is good press, especially when it comes to recent headlines about for-profit colleges.
ΓÇïThe Consumer Financial Protection Bureau made news when it recently sued for-profit Corinthian Colleges, which operates schools under the Everest name, among others, for predatory lending. And when Occupy Wall Street activistsΓÇï paid off $3.85 million in Corinthian College students' ΓÇïprivate ΓÇïstudent loan debt, it got the media's attention. ΓÇï
We're paying greater attention to for-profit colleges because investigations are turning up worrying borrowing levels, debt levels, default levels, and poor outcomes in general, including some cases of fraud, says Pauline Abernathy, vice president of the Institute for College Access & Success.
But bad press aside, for-profit colleges have become increasingly popularΓÇï. They account for 42 percent of postsecondary enrollment growth in the past decade, according to a study from the National Bureau of Economic Research, offering everything from nursing certificates to bachelor's degrees to primarily low-income and minority students.
Read more at The Huffington Post: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/10/06/for-profit-college-facts_n_5939660.html