Many of the nation’s largest for-profit college chains have seen enrollments plummet amid investigations into questionable job placement rates and deceptive marketing practices.<\/p>\n
One crucial source of revenue, however, has remained a constant: military veterans.<\/p>\n
For-profit colleges have collected $8.2 billion from the latest\u00a0GI Bill<\/a>\u00a0since it went into effect in 2009, according to a Los Angeles Times analysis of government data.<\/p>\n Those colleges enroll only 8% of all U.S. students but 30% of the 1.4 million\u00a0veterans\u00a0who have used the most recent version of the GI Bill.<\/p>\n For more details, see\u00a0<\/span>this Military.com article<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Many of the nation’s largest for-profit college chains have seen enrollments plummet amid investigations into questionable job placement rates and deceptive marketing practices. One crucial source of revenue, however, has remained a constant: military veterans. For-profit colleges have collected $8.2 billion from the latest\u00a0GI Bill\u00a0since it went into effect in 2009, according to a Los … Continue reading For-Profit Colleges Recruit Vets for Cash<\/span>