I suspect most of these are present for technical issues. Like the whole MNSCU system (Minnesota State Colleges system) excluding the University campuses is on the list for a reporting glitch.
I was surprised at some of the schools on the list. The list was not actually supposed to be released, but there was pressure from some group to do it. I think it may be misleading.
I was surprised to see Bard at Simon’s Rock on the list. 
@redpoodles I’m not at all surprised to see Simon’s Rock, all the students I’ve talked to have emphasized its poor financial aid administrators and general lack of funds. TBH I think they’re almost as bad as for profit schools, having an incredibly high tuition and preying on people desperate enough to pay it (uninformed 10th graders who haven’t done much research on financial aid, students desperate to leave anti-gay schools or bullies)
SBC last year I think got an A on the Forbes financial list I believe it was.
Melbourne and Sydney? What?
I can’t easily find why the redacted schools were redacted—anyone know better than me? Google isn’t helping (read: I don’t know the right search terms to use).
@dfbdfb You may have already seen but from the linked Inside Higher Ed article:
“‘We have ongoing investigations at each of those institutions and we fear that, at this point, releasing those names would impede the progress of our investigation,’ Mitchell said in an interview. He said the names of those colleges would eventually be released as the investigations are completed.”
Disappointed but not surprised to see Finlandia University on the list. When the college was founded in 1896, the desire for a school with a strong Finnish culture and ethos was evident among the large immigrant community in the area. Now that the immigrants are gone and many fourth- or fifth-generation Finnish-Americans do not feel as connected to their roots, the college has had to try to make itself seem less foreign and geared toward filling broader needs. They’ve taken some interesting initiatives, like offering free tuition to graduates of a local school in exchange for one of its district’s buildings or locking in tuition rates for each year’s entering class for four years. At the same time, Finlandia has an obligation to its heritage and can’t (and shouldn’t, if you ask me) just toss completely it to be marketable. Their case shows me that, for many colleges, having a strong identity can be both a saving grace and a stumbling block.
@Finnlet, I agree that a strong identity is important, and (without knowing any specifics about the school), I’d focus on marketing their unique heritage as something that could appeal to students of any background. Turning a school with a strong identity into a generic college is a huge error as we approach a time when many colleges will struggle to survive.
Southern Illinois University -Carbondale surprises me. It’s a decent public university, fairly selective.
Toronto is one of the top universities in the world and heavily subsidized by the Province. My senior son’s best friend has dual US/Canadian citizenship and is off to UT in the fall for pre-med (#14 in the world for medicine). He will be paying just over $6,000 per year in tuition, plus he got a merit scholarship. His parents are delighted and I doubt they would worry about a U.S. Department of Education watch list, even if they knew about it.
I am not sure about the foreign schools…but 90%+ of the “schools” in america are for profit scam operations…so the list is not to bad. slowly but surely the fake schools that showed up on the american landscape in the last 15-20 years are rapidly fading away.
No:
University of Phoenix
Full Sail University
ITT Tech Institutes
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It’s not 90%, but it is a surprisingly large proportion (but shrinking, as a number of them are closing in response to actually being held to standards on outcomes).
I was surprised to see Webb Institute on the list - it’s an excellent, tuition-free school of naval engineering and architecture. I would have been thrilled if my daughter had wanted to attend (due to the extremely structured program, which has almost no electives, students must REALLY want to go into those fields). But as noted, being on the list doesn’t in itself mean that a school is a ‘scam’ or in financial difficulty - there can be other reasons.
90% of these are just fake for-profit outfits.
In my state the only colleges under review are bible, barber, and beauty colleges. And I never heard of one of them.
@Fredjan the ITT locations in Indianapolis and Spokane Valley made it
@ttr991, ah, missed those on the list. Thanks!