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These students borrowed $35K plus for an unaccredited program that closed. Years later, their debts remain

The Philadelphia-area women are among hundreds of thousands of Americans who attended for-profit schools that closed or agreed to settle government investigations for high-pressure sales tactics, unaccredited programs, poor instruction, and forcing students to take courses they didn’t need.

Bridgette Collins poses outside the former Sanford Brown Institute in Trevose. The institute offered an ultrasound program and Collins and other women borrowed heavily to take it. But it wasn't accredited. The Trevose school closed in 2014.
Bridgette Collins poses outside the former Sanford Brown Institute in Trevose. The institute offered an ultrasound program and Collins and other women borrowed heavily to take it. But it wasn't accredited. The Trevose school closed in 2014.Read moreDAVID MAIALETTI / Staff Photographer