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PBS FRONTLINE: College, Inc. (2010)

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Posted by Matthew Toplikar on Dec. 1, 2010
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If the above video does not play, you can watch the film on the official PBS FRONTLINE website.

Even in lean times, the $400 billion business of higher education is booming. Nowhere is this more true than in one of the fastest-growing -- and most controversial -- sectors of the industry: for-profit colleges and universities that cater to non-traditional students, often confer degrees over the Internet, and, along the way, successfully capture billions of federal financial aid dollars.

 

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