Quick Take on ECMC/Corinthian Deal

Today, the Education Credit Management Corporation (ECMC), a nonprofit which has several nonprofit and for-profit subsidiaries, announced that it’s buying 56 campuses from for-profit Corinthian Colleges Inc. Here’s our quick take:

ECMC has no experience running a college, let alone one of this scale, and is instead known for ruthless and abusive student loan operations. The agreement provides virtually no relief to the Corinthian students who enrolled and took on debt based on false claims. And with so many other colleges offering lower priced, higher quality career education programs, it’s unclear why this agreement is in the interests of either students or taxpayers.