Flex recommended that the proprietary medical schools should either close or be incorporated into existing universities.

Education Department officials said they hoped other proprietary schools were paying attention.

But even he estimated that about 15 percent of proprietary schools were engaging in objectionable practices.

Thus, the Institute became the first independent proprietary school in physical therapy able to confer a graduate degree.

But the way in which proprietary schools fill this vacuum causes big problems.

Other technical institutes are run by private, often for-profit, organizations sometimes called proprietary schools.

Two years ago, New York passed legislation requiring more regulation and monitoring of proprietary schools.

Loan defaults from students at proprietary schools are expected to top $2.5 billion this year alone.

It costs $2,025 to enroll a student in a proprietary school for one year, compared with $4,500 in a public community college.

Critics found proprietary schools lacking especially for their failure to offer sufficient instruction in the basic sciences.