For-profit universities and colleges

found: Work cat.: Higher Ed, Inc. : the rise of the for-profit university, 2001:p. 25 ("not proprietary schools as they have been known ... but rather a new model ... accredited degree-granting colleges and universities owned and operated by publicly-held, for-profit corporations") p. 3 (they are tax-paying, not tax-exempt) p. 61 ("the Dept. of Education now includes some 669 for-profit schools recognized as accredited colleges and universities") p. x ("for-profit institutions of higher education")

found: Higher education in the United States: an encyclopedia, 2002:for-profit higher education ("for-profit postsecondary institutions"; necessity of generating profit will remain defining distinction between non-profit and for-profit postsecondary education providers")

found: National crosstalk, via WWW, fall 1998:For-profit education ("for-profit higher education institutions"; "for-profits")

found: Education Commission of the States For-Profit Degree Granting Institutions database, Mar. 18, 2005.

found: Chronicle of Higher Education:v. 51, issue 22, Feb. 4, 2005 ("for-profit education companies"; "for-profit higher education industry"; "proprietary colleges"; "for-profit colleges)) /issues in depth ("for-profit higher education")