{"id":1440,"date":"2017-09-21T10:48:48","date_gmt":"2017-09-21T14:48:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nacacadmitted.wpengine.com\/wordpress\/?p=1440"},"modified":"2017-09-21T10:48:48","modified_gmt":"2017-09-21T14:48:48","slug":"study-grads-of-for-profit-colleges-face-job-market-hurdles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/2017\/09\/21\/study-grads-of-for-profit-colleges-face-job-market-hurdles\/","title":{"rendered":"Study: Grads of For-Profit Colleges Face Job Market Hurdles"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1441\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1441\" style=\"width: 849px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/nacacadmitted.wpengine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/jobapplicant.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1441\" src=\"http:\/\/nacacadmitted.wpengine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/jobapplicant.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"849\" height=\"565\" srcset=\"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/jobapplicant.jpg 849w, https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/jobapplicant-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/jobapplicant-768x511.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 849px) 100vw, 849px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1441\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">iStock<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Students who earned their bachelor\u2019s degree from an online for-profit college are less likely to find success in the job market, research shows.<\/p>\n<p>Such applicants were 22 percent less likely than their counterparts from non-selective public institutions to receive a call back when applying for positions that required a business degree, according to a <a href=\"http:\/\/pubs.aeaweb.org\/doi\/pdfplus\/10.1257\/aer.20141757\">study<\/a> published in 2016 by the <em>American Economic Review<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Similarly, employers filling health care jobs that didn\u2019t require an additional certification (such as a nursing license) preferred public college grads over their for-profit counterparts, study data show.<\/p>\n<p>Although preferences shift slightly when an applicant\u2019s degree was granted by a for-profit institution with a local brick-and-mortar presence, researchers found that overall employers preferred candidates with degrees from public institutions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur results support the idea that employers view a credential from a for-profit institution as a negative signal of applicant quality,\u201d study authors note.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/pubs.aeaweb.org\/doi\/pdfplus\/10.1257\/aer.20141757\">Read the full study<\/a> and learn <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nacacnet.org\/news--publications\/publications\/for-profit-colleges-what-to-know-before-you-enroll\/\">key questions to ask before enrolling in a for-profit colleges<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Admitted<\/em> <em>writer\/editor Mary Stegmeir welcomes additional comments and story ideas at <a href=\"mailto:mstegmeir@nacacnet.org\">mstegmeir@nacacnet.org<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Students who earned their bachelor\u2019s degree from an online for-profit college are less likely to find success in the job market, research shows. Such applicants were 22 percent less likely than their counterparts from non-selective public institutions to receive a call back when applying for positions that required a business degree, according to a study &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/2017\/09\/21\/study-grads-of-for-profit-colleges-face-job-market-hurdles\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Study: Grads of For-Profit Colleges Face Job Market Hurdles<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[63],"class_list":["post-1440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-for-profit-colleges"],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Mary Stegmeir","author_link":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/author\/mstegmeir\/"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/peWmJq-ne","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1440\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}