If you attended a for-profit college and were mistakenly admitted, you may be eligible for for-profit student loan forgiveness options such as Borrower Defense Reimbursement. Over the past few years, over $1 billion in student loan debt has been forgiven for students who attended for-profit colleges and other schools that could mislead students.
Reasons for student loan forgiveness include defending the borrower against repayment claims, school closures, and other lawsuits.
The Biden administration has forgiven the largest amount of student loan debt of any president in history, helping more than 200,000 borrowers in several recent announcements.
However, it can be difficult to determine if you are eligible. Below is a list of colleges eligible for student loan forgiveness under the borrower’s defense against repayment, the latest Sweet v. Cardona settlement, or other loan cancellation agreements.This guide is also available at How to get loan help if you get scammed out of college.
Editor’s Note: This article has been updated to reflect that not all schools on this list are for-profit. Some schools were previously for-profit, but have since changed their status to non-profit.
Borrower Defense Student Loan Forgiveness List
There are over 155 schools and colleges. potentially You can qualify for student loan forgiveness under various plans and settlements. The most recent is the proposed settlement of Sweet v. Cardona. However, many of the “owner” names do not match the university name. We are working to include individual school names on this list.
Note: Not all students in all grades/schools can qualify. Still, the criteria for either defending the debtor or closing the school must be met. However, some schools cover all borrowers.
For example, the University of Corinth entered into a settlement, but the actual school name was Everest, Wyotech, etc. As such, borrowers may not know if they are eligible for the program.
In the list below, we provide the parent company name followed by a list of partner schools. Some of these universities were previously for-profit, but have since been converted to non-profit institutions.
Disclaimer: Some of the schools on this list were formerly for-profit schools but have since changed to non-profit schools. It may also have previously operated under a different parent company or under a different name.Schools currently considered non-profit are indicated with an asterisk
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Alta Colleges, Inc. (Westwood)
- American Commercial Colleges, Inc.
american commercial college
- american national university
american national university
Ana Maria Piña Haude and Mark Haude
- Anthem Education Group (International Education Corporation)
- Anthem College
Anthem Institute
- apollo group
- University of Phoenix
Seibu International University
- ATI Enterprise
- ATI Career Training Center
- ATI College
- ATI Health College
ATI Technical Training Center
- B&H Education Co., Ltd.
Marinello Beauty School
- Bridgepoint Education*
- Ashford University*
Rocky University*
Capella Education Company (Strategic Education Co., Ltd.)
- career education corporation
- American Intercontinental University
- Briarcliff University
- Brooks University
- Brooks Institute
- Collins College
- Colorado Institute of Technology
- Gibbs College
- Harrington College of Design
- International Design & Technology Academy
- Katherine Gibbs School
- Le Cordon Bleu
- Le Cordon Bleu Culinary Institute
- Le Cordon Bleu Culinary Art Institute
- Lehigh Valley College
- Mackintosh University
- Missouri College of Beauty North
- Pittsburgh Career Institute
- Sanford Brown University
- Sanford Brown Laboratory
- brown college
- brown lab
- Washington Business School
- Allentown Business School
- Western School of Health and Business Careers
- Ultrasound diagnostic school
- Faculty of Computer Technology
- Al Collins Graphic Design School
- Orlando Culinary Academy
- Southern California Culinary Arts School
- California Culinary Academy
- california cooking school
- pennsylvania culinary school
- Chicago Culinary Hospitality Institute
- Scottsdale Cooking School
- Texas Culinary Academy
- kitchen academy
Western cuisine research institute
- Employment training center
Employment training center
- Higher Education Center for Excellence (CEHE)
- california college san diego
- college america
- independent university
Stevens Hennager
- Corinthian Colleges Inc.
- American Motorcycle Association
- Ashmead University
- Blair University
- Bryman University
- Bryman Institute
- CDI College
- Duff’s Business Institute
- Eaton Institute of Technology
- Everest
- everest university online
- Everest College Phoenix
- Florida Metropolitan University
- Georgia Institute of Medicine
- Heald University
- Key Business College
- University of Las Vegas
- Organization of National Colleges of Technology
- national college of technology
- Olympia Vocational School
- Olympia University
- Parkes University
- Rochester Business Institute
- Sequoia College
- University of Tampa
- western business college
Wyotech
- Computer Systems Laboratory
Computer Systems Laboratory
- Court Press Research Institute Co., Ltd.
Court Reporting Institute
- Cynthia Becher
- La James College of Hairstyling
La James International College
- David Pyle
- american career college
American Career Institute
- Delta Career Education Co., Ltd.
- McCann Business & Technology School
- Miami Jacobs Career College
- Miller Mott Business College
- Millermotte University
- Millermotte Institute of Technology
University of Tucson
- Devry
- American University of the Caribbean
- Carrington College
- Chamberlain University
- DeVry Institute of Technology
- DeVry Institute of Technology
- DeVry University
- Keller School of Management
- Ross University College of Veterinary Medicine
Ross University School of Medicine
- EDMC/Dream Center
- Argosy College
- Art Institute
- Brown McKee College
- Illinois Museum of Art
- Miami International College of Art & Design
- New England Museum
- Southern University
Western State University School of Law
- Education Company (JLL Partner)
- Allstate Career School
- Fortis University
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- Everglades University Inc.
- Everglades University
Kaiser University
- Grove Education Network
- Grove University
Minnesota School of Business
- Graham Holdings Company (Kaplan)
- Bowder College
- Kaplan Career Institute
- Kaplan University
- Mount Washington College
Purdue University Global
Grand Canyon Education Co., Ltd.
- Infilau Holding LLC
- Arizona Summit Law School
- Charlotte Law School
Florida Coastal Law School
- International Education Corporation
- Florida Career College
United Education Institute
ITT Education Service Co., Ltd.
- JTC Education Co., Ltd.
- Gwinnett University
- Med Tech College
Radian’s University
- Leeds Equity Partners V, LP
- Florida Institute of Technology
- National University Junior College Division
NUC University
- liberty partners
- Concord Career College
Concord Career Institute
- Lincoln Educational Services Corporation
- international technology association
- Lincoln Institute of Technology
Lincoln Institute of Technology
- Mission Group Kansas, Inc.
- Light Business School
light career college
- Premier Education Group LP
- American College for Medical Careers
- Branford Hall Career Institute
- hallmark photo lab
- Hallmark University
- Harris Business School
- Institute of Health Education
- Micro Power Carrier Institute
- suburban college
Salter College
- Quad Partners LLC
- Beckfield University
- Blue Cliff College
Dorsey University
Remington University Ltd. (Remington University)
- Southern Technical Holdings LLC
Southern College of Technology
- Sullivan and Coriano Training Center, Inc.
Sullivan Training Center and Coriano Training Center
- TCS education system
Chicago College of Psychology
- Vaterot Education Centers Co., Ltd.
- St. Louis Court Reporting Institute
Vatelot University
- Wilfred American Education Corporation
- Robert Fiancé Beauty School
- Robert Fiancé Hair Design Institute
- Robert Fiancé Institute in Florida
- Wilfred Academy
- Wilfred Academy of Beauty and Culture
Wilfred Academy of Hair & Beauty Culture
- Willis Stein & Partners (ECA)
- Brightwood Career Institute
- Brightwood University
- New England College of Business and Finance
University of Virginia
How to get loan forgiveness
There are two main programs that can help here. Borrower defense against repayment
Provides for cancellation of a borrower’s federal student loans if the college violates federal or state law or makes a material misrepresentation with respect to the borrower’s student loans or educational services paid for the use of student loans. I’m here. If the borrower qualifies for the borrower’s defense to forgiveness, the borrower’s federal student loan will be canceled and all previous payments will be refunded to the borrower. IMPORTANT NOTES ON THE TIMING OF THE FIRST SETTLEMENT TO RETURN FOR BORROWER DEFENSE:
If the settlement is approved, it will apply not only to borrowers who filed claims before June 22, but also to borrowers who filed claims after June 22 before the court approved the settlement. It will be. A public hearing is scheduled for July 28. Among other things, the proposed settlement provides that these borrowers will have three years to process their applications, or the loan will be automatically forgiven in full. Closed School Expulsion: A student may be eligible for a scholarship if the university closes while the student is in school, or if the university closes within 180 days of the student’s withdrawal. Closed school discharge
If you are unable to complete your education through teachout or transfer of credits to another school, your federal student loan will be waived. These loan forgiveness programs are federal student loans ( Recent payment
in cooperation with the Ministry of Education). There is no specific student loan forgiveness program that will help you if you have private student loans. However, there have been various lawsuits and settlements seeking the dismissal of some private loans related to these schools. recently, Navient agreed
Forgive $1.7 billion in private student loans for 66,000 borrowers who dropped out of for-profit colleges. Previously, Corinthians University agreed to allow Genesis private loans to school-going borrowers.
Legal updates
On November 17, 2022, the judge overseeing the case approved the settlement agreement. But a group representing the school said it would appeal the case. As such, the agreement is likely to be put on hold until the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals hears the case.
what next
If you think you are eligible, you should have been (or will be) notified by your loan servicer. However, if your contact information hasn’t been updated, it may not. Therefore, an application for forgiveness in defense of the borrower must be submitted to the following address:studentaid.gov/borrower-defense/
. Notice:
There are many scams that use these school names to get you paid to help process your student loan forgiveness application. You don’t have to pay anything. You can do it all for free via StudentAid.gov (the official government website). See our list of common student loan scams here.
