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    School Profile: Western International University Western International University is a small, for-profit college. Only around 3,000 students enroll every year in this private school. Western International University was only recently founded in Phoenix, Arizona in the late 1970s. This college offers over 160 specialized associate’s, bachelor’s and master 's degrees. Western International University maintains a continuous curriculum system that allows incoming students to choose from 16 basic majors

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    for profit universities and colleges pose a significant threat to American higher education, and that they should be banned, I also agree with this outlook on for-profit universities. According to Sheffield’s article, “For-profit schools enable low-income and racial minority students, including many who are non-traditional, to gain practical, skills-based training that better equips them for the marketplace relative to many traditional academic paths.” For-profit colleges and universities differ

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    Group Policy Paper—For-Profits Institutions Policy: Complete College Tennessee Act of 2010 Relevant History Higher education attainment is one important parameter of national competitiveness in today’s increasing global world. Compare to 1990, today, the rank of U.S. in the world in four-year degree attainment dropped from the 1st to the 12th. Therefore, President Obama set a new goal for the United States to be first in the world again in college attainment by 2020, in order to remain global competitive

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    15. Western Governors University Western Governors University has 53 online degree programs to choose from, for an annual tuition of less than $15,000 each. This school offers one of the most affordable online accounting degrees. The annual tuition for the accounting program is $5,780. The Business degree program, also offered at the same price, is one of the most affordable. This public, non-profit school is fully accredited by the Distance Education and Training Council Accrediting Commission

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    For-profit universities are recently being recognized as a social problem. A for-profit university is defined as a school that is owned and operated by private corporations, whose top priority is to make money (IPFW). These schools often only offer two-year associate degrees and certificate programs, but they rarely offer general education and liberal arts programs. This means the students cannot advance to a higher degree. Also, for-profit lack accreditation, so most credits from an accredited

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    Why Do You Think They're Called For-Profit Colleges? Kevin Carey is direct with what he believes is wrong with for-profit universities. He believes that they do offer classes that may be a better option for non-traditional or low-income students. However, these universities are doing these while scamming taxpayers throughout the country. These universities receive millions of dollars in funding from the government in grants and are still able to make a profit, although, many students are unable

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    For-profit education As with any business industry, the education industry is one big and diversified with multiple options ranging from publicly own Universities, private nonprofit colleges to for-profit schools. But today I am going to talk about specifically about for-profit educations. What is for-profit education? What type of product and service do they serve and served? Who are the biggest players and how do they affect the industry and control over price? What are the methods used? What

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    are for-profit. The difference between for-profit and nonprofit is that for-profit institutions tend to be concerned with making a profit even though it might not be for the best interests of their students, nonprofit institutions are legally bound to put their profit back into the institution. Some in the for-profit sector have been shifting from being for-profit to nonprofit. Some institutions are either buying out the for-profit institutions or converting to nonprofit. Purdue University is planning

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    “They tell people, ‘If you don’t have a college degree, you won’t be able to get a job’ ” said Amanda Wallace (Goodman). For-profit schools are educational institutions that are corporations and often have shareholders. They operate as a business, and the product they sell is education. Their goal is to provide

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    well as making education available to everyone in the country. Whether it be a public university, private university or a for-profit institution, people can easily find a way to pursue their academic goals. However, many students graduate college with the inability to find a job because they weren 't properly trained and with massive debt due to the extremely high price of tuition at most universities. College is viewed as a necessity, but is priced as a luxury. This is leading to a drastic downturn

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