June 8, 2001

For Many For-Profit Colleges, the Transfer-of-Credit Blues

By ANNE MARIE BORREGO

They see bias when regionally accredited colleges won't accept their students' academic work

J. R. McCartan has nothing but headaches when his students try to transfer to colleges whose administrators don't know much about Pittsburgh Technical Institute.

Students seeking credit for courses they took at the two-year, for-profit institute "just won't get to first base," especially when they are dealing with colleges outside western Pennsylvania, says Mr. McCartan, Pittsburgh

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