A new US rule to kill degree mills could also defund Juilliard (npr.org)
Roughly 800,000 students sit in college programs projected to fail a new federal earnings test, mostly for-profit certificate mills and a slice of elite conservatories. The bar: beat a high-school-only paycheck, or the program loses federal loans.
One HN reader ran a real school's numbers through the government's own earnings tool; a 16-year veteran called higher ed "a cash incinerating inferno"; another noted for-profit schools have faced this exact test since the Obama-era "Gainful Employment" rule.
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