@JLeslie And it’s not just that they’re degree mills, but that there’s some really shady practices going on in a lot of them – like telling students to lie on their FAFSA (a government form) to get student aid, lying about how much the school costs and accreditation and about the transferability of credits to get students to sign up, refusing to disclose tuition costs until the student has signed a binding contract, offering commission to admissions councilors, drastically inflating how much the student is likely to earn after the degree (no, you will not make as much as a doctor by being a massage therapist…)... They are the used-car salesman of the education world. The ‘for-profit’ is kind of a bad name, because all universities and colleges are, to a certain extent, a business that intends to make money and pay the people who work there. And some state schools are diploma mills. It’s more the degree to which they are for-profit – putting that money directly into the pockets of the owners, not even thinking of investing in the school, not really trying to follow up on giving the students an education, and almost always costing more than the public (or even private) alternative – combined with fraud.