For-profit colleges have been coming under increasing scrutiny over the past couple of years. These schools have been accused of enticing students through misleading recruitment tactics, saddling them with enormous amounts of student loans, and then sending them off into the world with a degree that is near-worthless. Student loan default rates at for-profit colleges are astonishingly high, yet these institutions earn 90% or more of their revenue from federal and private student loans. Now, state attorney generals are investigating. Take a look at this Boston Globe article about what Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley is doing about for-profit colleges:
http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2011/05/12/