A whistle-blower said a local college falsified records to get more federal student loan money.
The school is Education Management Corporation (EDMC), the parent company of the Art Institute of Pittsburgh.
The whistle-blower lawsuit said the school has used aggressive marketing to draw in students who end up with degrees they cannot use, and loans they cannot repay.
The Art Institute of Pittsburgh takes up just a few blocks downtown, but parent company EDMC is a giant in the world of for-profit education, enrolling as many students as Penn State and the University of Pittsburgh combined.
Many of them attracted by the school's job placement numbers, which include 92 percent for the Art Institute's online graphic design program, according to EDMC's website.
?It sounded really good,? Tony Cavalline told Channel 4 Action News investigator Paul Van Osdol.
Cavalline was working as a floral designer at Shop 'n Save when he signed up for a graphic design certificate. He graduated with a nearly perfect grade-point average.
Cavalline: I was doing floral design and I still am.
Van Osdol: Same employer?
Cavalline. Same employer.
Van Osdol: Same job?
Cavalline: Same job.
Van Osdol: So all that tuition got you what?
Cavalline: So far, it got me nothing.
But EDMC's own records show Cavalline found a job in his field of study as a designer. It lists Shop 'n Save as an advertising agency.
?They definitely did not place me or help me in that respect at all. I could have gotten the job I have with no education, ? Cavalline said. ?I don't think they should be allowed to blatantly make up information.?
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