The big argument against these for profit schools is that students would have incurred huge debt for degrees that would give them jobs not paying enough to repay the loan. However, pick any state university or even an Ivy League school who turn out graduates with worthless degrees in peace studies, feminist theory, minority studies etc. who end up working in coffee shops and they can’t pay their loans either. Law schools are no different as they are turning out hundreds of new graduates each year who can’t find jobs. When my son took the bar exam in Minnesota several years ago 600 applicants were taking the bar exam. Assuming a low pass rate that would mean some 500 lawyers looking for work in MN that year and every year following. My son was fortunate to get hired, many of his classmates did not
The difference between your example and ITT is pretty profound.. I have a cousin, She has a PHD in 19th century feminist literature... not exactly something anyone would think she would get a job with... but guess what, she actually did find a job using her degree... so, hard to argue her education was worthless.
Now, there is no doubt you can graduate with a degree that isn’t all that marketable.. however, one cannot argue the person did not receive an education.. even if it is in something most folks would find worthless.
The problem with ITT and others like them is that they don’t educate their students at all, at least not to the degree they should be to claim they are preparing them for a career in mainstream fields.
If you are graduating students with degrees in nursing who have never set foot in a clinical setting, you are not educating the students, you are committing fraud. Amazing there are people here, arguing that a private enterprise should be able to willingly and willfully commit fraud to pad their own pockets with tax money! Insanity.