Dive Brief:

• A for-profit two-year college owned by Premier Education Group will pay $3.75 million to settle civil charges brought by Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley.
• Coakley said that Salter School lied about its job-placement figures for its graduates and deceived prospective students to get them to enroll.
• The money will be distributed to Salter School students: $3.5 million to help pay down federal student loans and $250,000 for payments on private loans.

Dive Insight:

Coakley’s office reported that the Salter settlement is the largest so far in the attorney general’s ongoing investigation of for-profit schools in the commonwealth. Salter School was accused of falsely claiming that it had a selective admissions process and misrepresenting the success of its students in finding jobs in their fields of study. Among her actions against for-profit colleges, Coakley has filed lawsuits against Corinthian Colleges and American Career Institute, and won judgments against Sullivan & Training Centers and QuinStreet.