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What happens when your online for-profit education stinks.

Mike Shields, a retired Marine Corps colonel and human resources director for U.S. field operations at Schindler Elevator Corp., rejects about 50 military candidates each year for the company’s management development program because their graduate degrees come from online for-profits, he said in an interview. Schindler Elevator is the North American operating entity of Schindler Holding AG in Hergiswil, Switzerland, the world’s second-largest elevator maker. “We don’t even consider them,” Shields said.

This sort of outcome makes paying your loans back difficult.

Margaret Soltan, February 7, 2011 1:54PM
Posted in: CLICK-THRU U.

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