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For-Profit Colleges Won’t Have to Prove Percent Of Grads Are Paying Down Debt

New rules that would have required for-profit colleges to demonstrate at least 35 percent of their graduates were repaying loans are arbitrary, a federal judge ruled this weekend.


The gainful-employment regulations, which were issued last year and were scheduled to go into effect on Sunday, were devised to prevent for-profit colleges, which get the bulk of their revenues from federal student aid, from leaving students with huge debt loads and credentials that provided little help in landing them a job.

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