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Religion News Service reports:
The country’s largest Christian university is being fined $37.7 million by the federal government amid accusations that it misled students about the cost of its graduate programs.
Grand Canyon University, which has more than 100,000 students, mostly in online programs, faces the largest fine of its kind ever issued by the U.S. Education Department. The university dismissed the allegations as “lies and deceptive statements.”
“Grand Canyon University categorically denies every accusation in the Department of Education’s statement and will take all measures necessary to defend itself from these false accusations,” the school said in a five-page statement.
Yahoo News reports:
Federal Student Aid (FSA) — part of the Department of Education — found that GCU lied to students about the cost to attend doctorate programs, which was consistently lower than 98% of students who paid for a doctorate. The university disbursed the most federal student aid of all participating institutions for the past four award years.
A Department of Education spokesperson confirmed this was the biggest fine in the department’s history in a press briefing Tuesday. The enforcement action is only against GCU. Students who attended GCU and feel they were misled or that GCU engaged in misconduct can apply for a loan discharge under the borrower loan defense discharge program.
The Education Department on Tuesday levied a $37.7 million fine against Grand Canyon University after an investigation found it misled more than 7,500 former and current students about the cost of its doctoral programs. https://t.co/CMfbtsCIm7
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) November 1, 2023
The U.S. Department of Education is fining Grand Canyon University $37.7 million, saying the for-profit Christian school misrepresented the costs of its doctoral programs. https://t.co/BJnwekK93k
— NBC News (@NBCNews) October 31, 2023