I think your point at the end of your column about the career-oriented nature of Harvard students is dead on-point, and I have bemoaned this unfortunate fact to anyone who will listen.
Some universities, like the University of Southern California and Columbia, are letting students take career-oriented classes in their professional schools -- classes on finance or public health, for example -- and giving them academic credit.
In the 2013 settlement, New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman alleged that his office had evidence Sanford-Brown had systematically violated state law by deceiving students with bogus job placement rates at its career-oriented schools, and failed to tell prospective students that certain programs lacked accreditation.
Quest provides career-oriented education to more than 13,400 students.
The women were strongly career-oriented, and their orientations to career related positively to their valuing of graduate education.
Champlain College in Burlington, Vt., a private, career-oriented college, enrolls almost as many foreign students abroad as it does Americans at home; the college has 1,100 students in Dubai, Bombay and Tel Aviv and 1,600 in Vermont.
When for-profit colleges were faced with tough questions about student debt and low graduation rates, they created Students for Academic Choice, a seemingly grass-roots organization led by students promoting the benefits of "postsecondary career-oriented institutions".
Nonetheless, more and more college students are attracted by the career-oriented education these schools typically offer, as well as by their often relaxed admissions policies and their consumer-oriented focus.
Founded in 1829, RIT enrolls 19,000 students in more than 200 career-oriented and professional programs, making it among the largest private universities in the U.S. The university is internationally recognized and ranked for academic leadership in business, computing, engineering, imaging science, liberal arts, sustainability, and fine and applied arts.
Virginia's four-year public and non-profit private institutions say 3-plus-1 programs will produce inferior degrees and will be difficult to implement, but advocates of the arrangement argue that the state lacks career-oriented, affordable bachelor's degree options – particularly for students who are working or otherwise place-bound.
