Working to advance students' rights to educational opportunity and to ensure that higher education provides a launching point for economic mobility.

Student Defense filed a lawsuit to stop the Trump Administration’s illegal attempts to dismantle the United States Department of Education

Court previously determined "reverse redlining" claims are actionable in college recruiting context

Initiatives

Over 400,000 borrowers obtain more than $9 billion in discharges

Our Work

Our focus spans the entire student lifecycle, from recruitment to educational quality to completion to student loan repayment

Each year tens of thousands of American college students fall victim to predatory for-profit colleges. These are their stories.

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