One Door Closes & Others Remain: Institutional Loans and the 90/10 Formula
The “90/10 Rule” is meant to ensure that for-profit schools are, in fact, competitive in the marketplace and are not relying only on taxpayers to survive. In other words, the rule is based on the principle that a viable educational program should be funded in part by students or employers who are willing to pay cash to invest in career training for themselves or their employees, respectively. Although a small percentage of proprietary schools have failed the 90/10 test in recent years, between 11 and 20 percent of schools derive over 85 percent of their revenues from Title IV sources. Because...