State sues for-profit college for ripping off students: Non-profit schools next?

The pressure on private for-profit colleges and universities is mounting, as another institution faces allegations of deceptive practices.

Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey filed a lawsuit against ITT Technical Institute, claiming that the college exaggerated its job placement rates and misled students, according to WCVB 5 in Boston.

The lawsuit targets the Computer Network Systems Program of ITT.

“These students were exploited and pressured to enroll with the promise of great careers and high salaries, but were instead left unable to repay their loans and support their families,” Healey said in a press release.

Admissions representatives, when recruiting students, said that placement rates within the field of study were between 80 percent and 100 percent, but the actual rates were closer to 50 percent or less.