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November 6, 2016

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Leveling the Field: What I Learned From For-Profit Education

Undercover as a student at Phoenix University, the largest for-profit higher education company in the country and the second-largest enroller of students (behind the SUNY system), where only 12 percent of first-time students graduate and the ad budget accounts for 30 percent of overall spending.

Christopher R. Beha Harper's Oct 2011 Permalink