Economists from the American Economic Association who have studied the impact of certain types of colleges on their graduates’ job prospects, have found students with degrees from for-profit colleges are at a disadvantage in the job market. The subsequent report from the study, which entailed researchers sending out a batch of nearly identical resumes, adjusting the educational history to test their theories, found that on average, graduates with bachelor’s degrees from public colleges got call backs 25% of the time. In contrast, those with resumes listing degrees from online for-profit colleges were contacted 8.5% less often.
Economists from the American Economic Association who have studied the impact of certain types of colleges on their graduates’ job prospects, have found students with degrees from for-profit colleges are at a disadvantage in the job market. The subsequent report from the study, which entailed researchers sending out a batch of nearly identical resumes, adjusting the educational history to test their theories, found that on average, graduates with bachelor’s degrees from public colleges got call backs 8.5% of the time. In contrast, those with resumes listing degrees from online for-profit colleges were contacted 25% less often.