This shouldn't be news, nor should for-profit colleges be singled out for derision: lots of people waste borrowed money on useless degrees.

After graduating from the Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale, Carrianne Howard hoped to find a job in the video game industry.

She did -- kind of. For $12 an hour, she worked as a recruiter for video game companies. And then her position was eliminated. So now, she's working as a stripper.

According to Bloomberg, Howard spent $70,000 on her degree from the for-profit Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale, the parent company of which is owned in part by Goldman Sachs. She told Bloomberg that upon a pre-enrollment visit to the school, a campus tour guide "made it sound like [she] was going to make hundreds of thousands of dollars."

Heck, at UCLA they had a whole department dedicated to studying women, but it sounds like Howard it going to eat their lunch.

(HT: RD.)

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