Working to advance students' rights to educational opportunity and to ensure that higher education provides a launching point for economic mobility.

Student Defense launches initiative to reform National Health Services Corps Student Loan Repayment Program

Judge Rules for Former Walden Students in Groundbreaking Civil Rights Decision

Court determines "reverse redlining" claims are actionable in college recruiting context

Student Defense Files Class-Action Lawsuit Against Caltech, Simplilearn for Misleading Cybersecurity Bootcamp Students

Cases

Over $1.5 billion in debt cancelled for more than 79,000 former Westwood students

Durbin and Student Defense continue to fight for relief to defrauded students

Initiatives

Making Relief Automatic For Borrowers With Disabilities

Over 400,000 borrowers obtain more than $9 billion in discharges

The Postsecondary Equity & Economics Research (PEER) Project is a joint initiative on accountability between academics at George Washington University and Columbia University and attorneys at the National Student Legal Defense Network.

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Our Work

Our focus spans the entire student lifecycle, from recruitment to educational quality to completion to student loan repayment

Anti-Poverty & Basic Needs

Civil Rights Work

Federal Regulation

Preemption Project

State Policy Work

Student stories

The faces of the for-profit college crisis

Each year tens of thousands of American college students fall victim to predatory for-profit colleges. These are their stories.

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