The For-Profit Postsecondary School Sector: Nimble Critters or Agile Predators?

Autor/inn/en	Deming, David J.; Goldin, Claudia; Katz, Lawrence F.
Titel	The For-Profit Postsecondary School Sector: Nimble Critters or Agile Predators?
Quelle	In: The journal of economic perspectives, 26 (2012) 1, S. 139-164 PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei (1); PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei (2) Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Beigaben	grafische Darstellungen
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; gedruckt; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0895-3309; 1944-7965
DOI	10.1257/jep.26.1.139
Schlagwörter	Bildungsbeteiligung; Förderung; Stipendium; Geschichte (Histor); Sozialstruktur; Finanzierung; Public Private Partnership; Verschuldung; Hochschulbildung; Studentenzahl; Studienerfolg; Privathochschule; Fernstudium; Fernuniversität; RACE; Hochschulabsolvent; Student; USA
Abstract	"Private for-profit institutions have been the fastest-growing part of the U.S. higher education sector. For-profit enrollment increased from 0.2 percent to 9.1 percent of total enrollment in degree-granting schools from 1970 to 2009, and for-profit institutions account for the majority of enrollments in non-degree-granting postsecondary schools. We describe the schools, students, and programs in the for-profit higher education sector, its phenomenal recent growth, and its relationship to the federal and state governments. Using the 2004 to 2009 Beginning Postsecondary Students (BPS) longitudinal survey, we assess outcomes of a recent cohort of first-time undergraduates who attended for-profits relative to comparable students who attended community colleges or other public or private non-profit institutions. We find that relative to these other institutions, for-profits educate a larger fraction of minority, disadvantaged, and older students, and they have greater success at retaining students in their first year and getting them to complete short programs at the certificate and AA levels. But we also find that for-profit students end up with higher unemployment and "idleness" rates and lower earnings six years after entering programs than do comparable students from other schools and that, not surprisingly, they have far greater default rates on their loans." The study refers to the period 1970-2009. (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku)..
Erfasst von	Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung, Nürnberg
Update	2012/4