Undercover investigators posing as students interested in enrolling at 15 for-profit colleges found that recruiters at four of the colleges encouraged prospective students to lie on their financial aid applications — and all 15 misled potential students about their programs’ cost, quality and duration, or the average salary of graduates, according to a federal report.
The report and its accompanying video are to be released publicly Wednesday by the Government Accountability Office, the auditing arm of Congress, at an oversight hearing on for-profit colleges by the
By JACQUES STEINBERG
Prospective students and their families on a recent tour of the University of Iowa.
Stephen Mally for The New York Times
Prospective students and their families on a recent tour of the University of Iowa.
More students are going to the University of Iowa this fall than the university can accommodate, setting off a search for classroom and living space.

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