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Northwestern could fully cover the cost of tuition, room, board and fees for all current students on financial aid if the University had not engaged in a price-fixing cartel with other universities, former students alleged. Nine former students of some of the 17 U.S. private, elite universities in the alleged cartel, including NU, filed a...
ITHACA, NY -- Cornell University was one of 16 universities named as defendants in a lawsuit filed in federal court for allegedly conspiring to eliminate competitive financial aid offers to
A total of 16 different universities have been formally accused of conspiring against financial aid recipients by overcharging them for tuition.
Northwestern is being sued for alleged antitrust violations in collusion with 15 other U.S. universities to illegally reduce student financial aid. The universities allegedly engaged in price-fixing designed to reduce or eliminate financial aid and artificially inflate the net price of attendance for financial aid recipients, according to a lawsuit filed in Illinois federal court...
Attorneys say colleges including Columbia, Georgetown and MIT have overcharged 170,000 financial-aid recipients by 'hundreds of millions.'