When Higher Ed Doesn’t Deliver: A Case Study of Medical-Assistant Programs

New America’s Kevin Carey explores federal data in the New York Times that show medical-assistant programs often produce graduates with few well-paying job prospects and significant amounts of student debt. He writes,

Many people who graduate from such programs struggle to find work. Those who do find work often make little money — too little to repay their debts from the program. Despite the happy poster images, the market for medical-assistant education is actually an allegory for the problems in the parts of higher education that tend to attract low-income and middle-class students: little regulation and uneven — often mediocre — results.

Read the full piece here.