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by justsomedude43 2878 days ago
"The administration of President Donald Trump just made it easier for for-profit colleges to get away with making fake promises about things like graduation rates and job placements."

This is where I stopped reading. Pretty much the first sentence. False advertising has been a problem for at least two decades now, mostly in Law and nothing has been done about it. People started talking about it only recently after the rich kids got affected by the false advertising; their parents spend $200k-$300k on a Law degree with a Bar test only to find out that their kids can't get a job that pays more than $50k because there's been an abundance of lawyers for about twenty years now.

Same goes for IT and all sorts of BS degrees ala marketing, communications, david beckham studies etc... besides you don't need somebody to tell you:

"Hey, save your money you don't yet have, that degree is useless! You can do that without having one."

You only need half a brain cell to figure this for yourself. It's not brain surgery and if you do need someone to tell you that, then you really do need a hard lesson.