For-Profit Colleges Can Be Costly For Students
The CBS station in San Francisco, KPIX, profiled a Westwood student who complained to their Action Help Line about the school. The 23-year-old student, Christian Duncan, says he currently owes close to $80,000, and still does not have a diploma. They call his experience “one expensive lesson.”
The story also focuses on the huge boom in for-profit education in the past decade. They report that tuition is usually far more expensive than what public colleges charge, and the reporter says even some top-notch private universities are cheaper. She warns that students of these schools can get stuck paying the bill for a long time. Click on the video above to watch. We’re sure many of you can relate, from all the stories you’ve shared with us. If you haven’t already, you can click here to tell us your story.
So many people have the same issues with Westwood. There high pressure sales, and they told me it would be very affordable, around 30,000 for me to go to school. Westwood wrote of 22,000 in debt that I have with their school, but is still leaving the 38,000.00 debt with Sallie Mae. I didn’t even know they wrote it off until the board of education in Colorado had to look into my westwood file, and forwarded me the information that Westwood would not give me. There credits are worthless, despite the fact that I have a 3.8 gpa with them, I learned nothing from these courses. Now I have had to enroll in a real college just to get a degree. My financial aid will eventually run out because of Westwood. When my subsidized and unsubsidized loans are maxed I will have no more financial aid to help me finally get a degree. Westwood needs to take responsibility for their lies, and lack of education. I will continue to pursue them until all of my debt with them is erased!
Yeah, same here. I want to go to a real college and actually gain a real degree, not some fraud piece of paper that is going to cost me over $100,000 with interest to pay back to a multi-billion dollar student loan lender, (sallie mae).
I strongly believe that sallie mae helps these for-profit colleges put students in debt so that the colleges and student loan lenders can all get filthy rich, while we stay poor, garnished, and our recession gets worse in debt because of these actions.
I am in the same boat. I paid $50,000 for my Assiociates degree. I was on campus then I got a great job. The school tells me o transfer to online, finish the 3 classes you have left. I go to online, sorry but you have to staart a new catalog now… 13 classes later and an extra $20,000 I got my worthless degree. At least I found Univeristy of Pheonix will take a third of their credits….