Feds Fine Baker College $2.5 Million for Deceptive Marketing That Left Students With Debts and Regrets
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A 2022 investigation detailed how the once-growing Michigan school built its reputation on slick advertising despite low graduation rates and leaving many students burdened with heavy debt.

Summary

The U.S. Department of Education fined Baker College $2.5 million for “substantial misrepresentation” of career outcomes, following a joint investigation by ProPublica and the Detroit Free Press.

The college inflated job placement rates and earnings, misleading students into heavy debts.

Critics, including former students, called the penalty insufficient, as no restitution was provided.

Enrollment at Baker has drastically declined, and over 500 borrower defense complaints were filed against it since 2021.

Baker denied wrongdoing but agreed to federal oversight of its marketing for three years.

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    More money in the Fed’s pocket and the students are screwed. US Government at its finest. Just like they bailed out the S&L industry, the banking industry, the housing industry, and a laundry list of other industries, ALL at the expense of the American people.

    The US Government is corporate-owned lock, stock, and barrel. There might be one or two decent people IF you looked across two of the three branches (we know the “Supreme Court” is corrupt through and through so cannot be included), but most every politician is corporate owned.