Targeted by Obama, for-profit colleges see opening with Trump

February 15, 2017
  • Industry News

e invitation went out to top universities including Ohio State and Notre Dame: Let's talk about the future of American higher education under President Donald Trump.

It also went to a less-august institution: DeVry Education Group.

That DeVry was invited to a January "listening session" on education by Trump's team hints at where his administration soon may nudge more college students: into the arms of for-profit companies.

That, anyway, is the word on Wall Street. Only months after Trump agreed to pay $25 million to settle a series of lawsuits stemming from his for-profit education venture, Trump University, the likes of DeVry are on the march. Since the November election, the stock price of Downers Grove-based DeVry has jumped almost 40 percent.

Read more at The Chicago Tribune: http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-trump-for-profit-college-20170214-story.html