Nearly 16,000 borrowers will receive $415 million in borrower defense to repayment discharges following the approval of four new findings. This includes approximately 1,800 former DeVry University students, who will receive approximately $71.7 million in full borrower-defense discharges after the U.S. Department of Education determined that the institution made “widespread substantial misrepresentations” about its job-placement rates. These are the first approved borrower-defense claims associated with a currently operating institution, as opposed to institutions that have closed, and the department will seek to recoup the cost of the discharge.
