November 8, 2009

For-Profit Colleges, Growing Fast, Say They Are Key to Obama's Degree Goals

For-Profit Colleges Say They Are Key to Obama's College-Completion Goal 1

Jodi Hilton for The Chronicle

Students at the Kaplan Career Institute in Boston study medical billing in one of the for-profit college's computer labs.

By Jennifer Gonzalez

Washington

With about two million students in the United States now attending for-profit colleges, a number that is expected to double by 2015, leaders of those institutions say their sector must play a key role if President Obama is to meet his goal of having the world's highest number of college graduates by 2020.

The institutions are still viewed with skepticism by some consumers and policy makers, but for-profit colleges have grown steadily. Their officials say the colleges' performance

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