Many for-profit students would be better off not attending college at all

Evidence

And even those who make it through statistically earn less than their peers in similar programs in the public sector. According to a Brookings Institution study, “public sector students outperform for-profit students on nearly every measure, suggesting that the overwhelming majority of for-profit students would be better off attending a public institution. But what if attending a public community college is not an option? Our results suggest that many for-profit students would be better off not attending college at all.” — Dorothy A. Brown, The Whiteness of Wealth, 292

Categorization

• XREF: Feeds the ‘no-win choice’ structure: for-profit attendance is often net-negative, but it may be the only option. — connects to: Higher education now indebts students for jobs they could have gotten without it. — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism: Is There No…, 56