Colleges don’t close without warning every day, but it happens more often than you might expect. Crucially, for-profit colleges are far more likely to close without warning than other types of institutions. When colleges close abruptly, it leaves students scrambling to figure out how to continue their education. Unfortunately, many students who experience their college closing never complete their degrees.
A new report from the State Higher Education Executive Officers Association (SHEEO) and National Clearinghouse Research Center (Clearinghouse) is the first to trace what happens to students who experience their college closing.
