Economic Downturn Brings Prosperity and Opportunities to For-Profit Colleges

Autor/in	Blumenstyk, Goldie
Titel	Economic Downturn Brings Prosperity and Opportunities to For-Profit Colleges
Quelle	In: Chronicle of Higher Education, 55 (2008) 17, (1 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0009-5982
Schlagwörter	Higher Education; Information Technology; Educational Finance; Private Colleges; Enrollment; Retraining; Student Financial Aid; Educational Policy; Grants; Paying for College; Health Occupations; Career Development; Business; Employment Potential; Economic Factors; Cooking Instruction + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Informationstechnologie; Bildungsfonds; Privathochschule; Einschulung; Umschulung; Finanzielle Beihilfe; Studienfinanzierung; Studienförderung; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Grant; Gesundheitsberuf; Berufsentwicklung; Business studies; Wirtschaft; Betriebswirtschaft; Arbeitsmarktbezogene Qualifikation; Beschäftigungsfähigkeit; Ökonomischer Faktor
Abstract	For-profit colleges, unlike the rest of higher education, are enjoying a financial boon that is likely to improve in the next couple of years. Enrollments this fall at nine major publicly traded college companies grew at a pace faster than the average annual rate of growth for the past three years, while profit margins for this year are projected to be higher than they have been since 2005. While many experts have predicted that the current recession, like previous ones, will result in higher college enrollments over all, as laid-off workers enroll for retraining, many public and private institutions will be hard-pressed to accommodate them because other sources of financing will be squeezed. Analysts from the Stifel Nicolaus investment bank said the for-profit sector, in contrast, is well positioned to benefit from the inflow of new students. Changes in federal student-aid policies have made grants and subsidized loans more available, so more students can find the money to pay for the colleges' programs. The colleges' main concern about the economy is whether it will turn around quickly enough that the students who enroll in programs that train them for careers in health care, information technology, business, and the culinary arts will be able to land jobs once they graduate. (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10