Lawsuit Calls InterCoast’s Maine LPN Program a “Sham”

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A proposed class action lawsuit has been filed against InterCoast Colleges – which operates as Intercoast Career Institute – on behalf of former LPN students who were enrolled at the school in Kittery or South Portland, Maine between 2011 and 2016. The suit calls the defendant’s InterCoast LPN Program a “sham” that “existed to make money without regard for the quality of education its students received.” Specifically, the case claims the defendants:

Allegedly, the for-profit college charged $36,000 per LPN enrollee and financed its alleged scheme by enrolling “almost exclusively students who received federal financial aid in the form of federal student loans.” From the suit:

“InterCoast worked to maximize the aid each student received…so as to maximize the number of students able to pay its high tuition. InterCoast treated the United States Department of Education as its cash source, with the students serving unwittingly as the means by which InterCoast enriched itself at the expense of both the students and the public fisc.”