A private for profit religious University with 70K online students (granted they also have 20k on campus), just baffles me that they even exist!
They are quite a unicorn, but going to for-profit saved them from closing.
Their alumni accumulated student loan debt is well into the billions.
I have no doubt!!! I also have my own very strong opinion that those types of schools should be criminal.
GCU's saving grace is that it's historically non-profit and they've tried to go back to non-profit. Won't happen officially until they separate from Grand Canyon Education, Inc. I'm sure most of their programs can set alumni up for rewarding careers. I once worked for one of "those" schools where I couldn't say the same. It was 2009 and I basically took what I could get in that economy. We had eight academic programs, but I could honestly say only one was any good (photography) and even in that kind of program, career readiness depends greatly on the person having entrepreneurial spirit. One of my colleagues tried to enroll homeless people. Definitely not proud to have worked in the industry. In hindsight, I should have quit earlier and tended bar until I found the good opportunity.