ERIC Review: Understanding the Relationships Between Proprietary Schools and Community Colleges: Findings from Recent Literature

This review explores the recent literature on proprietary schools. It examines the characteristics of proprietary schools and the distinctions between proprietary schools and community colleges. The authors close by posing the questions of whether proprietary schools are converging with community colleges and whether proprietary schools are a threat to community colleges. The study concludes that proprietary schools and community colleges have individual strengths that make each institution appealing to different segments of the student population. More research is urged to explore the possibility of future collaboration between proprietary schools and community colleges.

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