Using a data set released every year by the Department of Education, get a look at the default rates at every 4 year or graduate institution in the US (that has had defaults).
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The premier public California universities have very low default rates: UC Berkeley managed a commendable .9% and UCLA 1.5% (though private USC led the pack with .7%). With the dot plot on the upper left, you can easily see the institutions with exceptionally high default rates, or high numbers of borrowers defaulting. If you look at Arizona you can see that the University of Phoenix has almost 10,000 borrowers defaulting.
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