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Two-Year College Financial Aid Default Rates: Relative Density Analysis

In August, 2012, I summarized my study of federal financial aid default rates for four-year institutions. The following is a summary of the distribution of federal financial aid default rates for public, private nonprofit (NP) and private for-profit (FP) two-year institutions. The data for … Continue reading

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Proprietary Students Fall Way Behind in Repaying Student Loans

A couple days ago I shared U.S. Department of Education data indicating 193  vocational programs fail the ‘gainful employment’ test, all of them in the for-profit sector of higher education. The Department of Education’s “Gainful Employment” database provides another rich … Continue reading

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Federal Financial Aid Default Rates

The New York Post reports, “Total student debt is at an all-time high — and may top $1 trillion this year. Meanwhile, default rates are rising alarmingly.” That’s right, $1 trillion. The primary purpose of this study focuses on differential … Continue reading

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