DeVry Education Group, Owner of American University of the Carrbbean and Ross University Schools of Medicine, Settles Allegations of Deceptive Marketing

The parade oflegal settlements made by large health care organizations just keeps stepping along.  The latest entry in it wasDeVry Education Group, which owns two for-profit offshore (from the US and Canada) medical schools:American University of the Caribbean School of Medicine, andRoss University School  of Medicine.The CaseIn early 2016, we first discussed the deceptive marketing charges against DeVry University and DeVry Education Grouphere.  The charges have now been settled. The lede of the AP story about the settlement (via ABC News) was:DeVry University and its parent company are paying $100 million to settle a federal lawsuit alleging the school misled students throughdeceptive ads.The allegations that led to the settlement were:The lawsuit focused on two marquee ad claims that DeVry used for years but dropped in October in a settlement with the U.S. Education Department.Since at least 2008, the chain had advertised that 90 percent of its graduates who actively sought employment landed jobs in their field within six months of graduation.But federal investigators found that DeVry was counting students who found jobs outside the fields they studied, and who already had jobs before they enrolled.Included in the statistic was a graduate who studied in the health care field but found work as a restaurant server and another who worked as a car salesman, according to the FTC lawsuit.The commission also challenged a claim that DeVry graduates earn 15 percent m...
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