How Does For-Profit College Attendance Affect Student Loans, Defaults and Labor Market Outcomes?

How the health services research workforce supply in the United States is evolving

“…29 The growing role of for-profit institutions may serve as a barrier to diversifying the HSR workforce, which has left graduates with high debt burden and without gainful employment. 30,31 Policy makers need to remedy these burdens disproportionately placed particularly on Black/African American graduates with regulation and oversight, while also providing loan repayment and career support. 32,33 Stakeholders including AcademyHealth and NIH are synthesizing numerous DEI trainings to help academic institutions and employers diversify the health services and broader scientific research workforce.…”

Pathways to Registered Nursing: Influences of Health-Related Work Experience and Education Financing

“…ADN completions from for-profit education institutions, whose graduates are more racially and ethnically diverse than not-for-profit schools, increased by 25 percentage points from 2012 to 2018 (Mohammed et al, 2021). Students attending for-profit institutions, however, have been shown to take on more student debt, have worse job outcomes, and are more likely to default than those attending public institutions (Armona et al, 2018). Our study found the use of loans to finance education by both ADN-and BSN-entry RNs who graduated in 2000 or later is higher than among RNs graduating earlier.…”

State Investment in Higher Education: Effects on Human Capital Formation, Student Debt, and Long-Term Financial Outcomes of Students

“…The results are very similar to baseline. In row (7), we conduct a similar exercise but interact baseline share with the expected year of college exit fixed effects (based on 150% time enrollment) to account for any exit-year shocks that may differentially affect students coming from colleges with different shares. The results change little when we include these controls.…”