CAPELLA UNIVERSITY was/ is currently under investigation by the State of Minnesota Attorney General’s Office (and other states’ AG’s offices), the State of Minnesota Department of Higher Education, in addition to "our" group's legal pursuit for: 1.) Conversion; 2.) Breach of Contract; 3.) Interference With Contractual Relations; 4.) Breach of the Implied Covenant of Good Faith and Fair Dealing; and 5.) Unjust Enrichment.

CAPELLA UNIVERSITY was / is the subject of an Education Department audit, which revealed that the school overcharged lenders and this department by over a half million dollars. Capella University spends an unusually high portion of revenue on marketing and a relatively small amount on instruction (for its exclusively online program). Most instructors are part-time and accreditation could be an issue in the near future.

CAPELLA UNIVERSITY "enrollment counselors" are not counselors, they're "sales representatives", having to meet sales goals/quotas, and appears to maintain aggressive enrollment goals for the more than 300 recruiters it employs, with its "sales teams" having aggressive sales tactics that include misleading its prospective enrollees. Many former students of Capella University have been plagued with high debt to income ratios after taking out student loans from this for-profit university. Capella University was recently questioned for having a high withdrawal rate amongst students in its programs and for spending an unusually high percentage of revenue on marketing.

CAPELLA UNIVERSITY is under government and private legal team investigations for unethical and unfair business practices, the university and its faculty not adhering to its own graduate degree program student’s manual (only to keep its students enrolling quarter, after quarter – costing its students an excessive amount of tuition), practice degree program stall tactics, unrealistic and unfair student tuition, false promises, poor communication during active course participation, student loan/government lending fraud, in addition to many other “complaints”. “Student complaints" indicate dissatisfaction with the instructional quality at Capella. In a letter to the President of Capella from HLC, the company’s accreditor expresses concern regarding academic quality: [This student’s] “letter is troubling in light of two other recent complaints”... These complaints, taken as a group, suggest dissatisfaction on the part of at least some graduate students with the quality of the interaction they have had in the institution’s core academic programs and an unwillingness on the part of the institution to review and respond to the potential customer service issues these complaints suggest.

CAPELLA UNIVERSITY provided to the “HARIKINS REPORT”, that out of the 5,602 Bachelor’s students who enrolled at CAPELLA UNIVERSITY in 2008-2009, 60.3% (or 3,378 students), withdrew by mid-2010. Capella’s Bachelor degree programs have a withdrawal rate of 60.3% that exceeds the sector-wide rate of 54.3% and is the 6th highest withdrawal rate for Bachelor’s degree programs of any company examined by the committee. Capella’s graduate degree students’ withdrawal rates average at/greater 43.6% (7,369 students) who enrolled in these graduate programs between 2008-2009 withdrew by mid-2010. ‘

Capella Sanctioned by the Government - - According to the GAO report, Capella had a high withdrawal rate among students in bachelor’s degree programs, and spent an usually high percentage of its revenue on marketing. In March 2008, Capella was also the subject of an Education Department audit, which revealed that the school overcharged lenders and this department by over a half million dollars. The inspector general’s audit revealed mistakes in calculation of student eligibility for federal loans, as well as failure to return funds granted on behalf of students who withdrew from their courses.

MUST VIEW - - PBS Documentary on FOR-PROFIT “SCHOOLS”:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEkFd_sVtrs&t=4s