The federal government should hold colleges and universities accountable for whether their former students are able to successfully repay their loans, said a report released Wednesday by the Institute for Higher Education Policy.
The group, which advocates for low-income students in higher education, offers a series of recommendations for how policy makers should use loan repayment rates to set higher performance standards that colleges must meet as well as provide students and families with more consumer information about their prospective institutions.
Read more at Inside Higher Ed: https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2016/01/21/recommendations-using-repayment-rates