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The U.S. Department of Education is investigating whether Temple University’s business school misled prospective students about the quality of its online M.B.A. program by providing false information for a magazine’s rankings, a department official said Tuesday.
If the inquiry finds Temple at fault, students could have their federal loans forgiven under a provision known as “borrower defense,” the department official said, and Temple could be on the hook for the money.
“We’re looking at what misrepresentations did occur, and what impact that had on students who used federal programs and federal dollars to seek their education there,” said the department official, who asked not to be named because the department does not discuss open inquiries.
The department’s probe was launched earlier this year, before the university disclosed findings of an investigation that determined the Fox School of Business, sometimes knowingly, provided false data to U.S. News and World Report for its rankings.
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