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A small for-profit technical college with a West Boylston campus will close and pay more than $1.6 million in debt relief to resolve allegations it misled students about student lending, program job placement and graduation rates.
Salter College, the private-two year technical college in West Boylston is operated by parent company Premier Education Group, which also operates the Salter School in Fall River and Malden.
In addition to wiping away $1.6 million in student loan debt, the school will seek to have credit agencies forgive students for the negative reporting regarding the debts, per an agreement with Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey’s office.
The school can no longer enroll students in Massachusetts, and all operations in the state must wind down by the end of the year.
“Salter College misled students and deprived them of the information they needed to make informed choices about their education,” Healey said in a statement. “This settlement will provide students the relief they deserve and stop this predatory for-profit school from doing business in our state.”
According to Healey’s office, the school in 2014 resolved similar allegations via a consent judgement that forced the school to pay $3.75 million over inflated job placement rates and misleading enrollment.
According to the school’s website, Salter School was formed in Worcester in 1937. It was acquired in 2002 by Premier Education Group and allowed to change its name to Salter College in 2007.
It offered degrees in science, accounting, medical assistant and office administration.
The West Boylston campus is located in the Wachusett Plaza on West Boylston Street.
So does everyone who went to salter and has loans through them for education gets a part of the settlement?
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