For-Profit Universities: The Shrinking Sector - Doug Lederman, Inside Higher Ed

As enrollments tumble at for-profit colleges, the number of proprietary institutions is dwindling, too. Data released by the Education Department's National Center for Education Statistics Thursday show that 3,436 for-profit colleges participated in federal financial aid programs in the just-ended academic year, down 2.6 percent, from 3,527 such institutions two years earlier, in the 2012-13 academic year. The number of public colleges dipped by just under 1 percent. https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2015/07/24/number-profit-colleges-declines-enrollments-wither