There's a bit of selection bias. For profit colleges often target people who are not able to go to public schools for whatever reason. Might be convenience or s

There's a bit of selection bias. For profit colleges often target people who are not able to go to public schools for whatever reason. Might be convenience or specialty. For instance those N month training courses to be a paralegal or whatever are pretty good on face value. The alternative isn't a 4 year college degree. I also remember looking into basic college courses around 10 years back (I already have a degree) and found literally no options that weren't in the middle of the day. Zero. This was in the entire City University of New York (CUNY) system too, not some small school. So public school courses isn't really an option if you're working full time.