Frank's Corner

First it was predatory lenders.

But for the past year, my team and I have noticed an enormous surge of for profit educational enrollment.

These are mostly the “ONLINE” colleges, like Kaplan, ECPI, Phoenix, etc. etc. They advertise aggressively on TV. On billboards, and all over the internet. Finally a Yahoo article is confirming what we’ve noticed for over one year.
Last year we arranged a “Survey” on LinkedIn and paid good money to open it up to LinkedIn’s population of professionals. Some 72% of hiring executives classifying themselves as “CEO” or “VICE PRESIDENT” stated they “Did NOT” find online school degrees to be comprable to their brick and mortar counterparts.

But trying telling this to a candidate seeking to improve their interview chances.

Here’s the link to the Yahoo article. Our LinkedIn survey can be found by searching “polls” on linkedin and typing “online colleges”.

http://finance.yahoo.com/college-education/article/109081/in-hard-times-lured-into-trade-school-and-debt

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