This country's ten thousand proprietary, or profitmaking, vocational schools are big business. They enroll over 3 million students each year, producing gross annual revenues of at least 2.5 billion dollars on which substantial corporate, property, and personal income taxes are paid. Cosmetology schools represent a third of the total number; trade…

To test the differences in effect of postsecondary vocational training offered by public schools and by proprietary schools, a study based on a sample of 4,8000 students and graduates in the accounting, programing, electronic technician training, dental assisting, secretarial, and cosmetology occupations was designed. Even though vocational…