Interestingly, this practice is more common than you'd think, even at name-brand universities. My own alma mater got in some controversy over this [1]. This is

Interestingly, this practice is more common than you'd think, even at name-brand universities. My own alma mater got in some controversy over this [1]. This is also a shady practice of a lot of "for-profit" college chains [2]. This happens whenever any organization optimizes towards maximizing some narrowly-defined KPI: they find ways to game the system to juice their numbers. [1] http://www.c-ville.com/uva-law-funds-the-first-jobs-of-many-of-its-grads-should-it-matter/#.VpbxtPkrKUk http://www.c-ville.com/uva-law-funds-the-first-jobs-of-many-... [2] http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/12/16/corinthian-colleges-job-placement_n_4433800.html http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/12/16/corinthian-colleges...