Goldman Schools Students on Debt

Carrianne Howard dreamed of designing video games, so she enrolled in a program at the Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale, a for-profit college part-owned by Goldman Sachs (GS). Her bachelor's degree in game art and design cost $70,000 in tuition and fees. After she graduated in December 2007, she found a job that paid $12 an hour recruiting employees for video game companies. She lost that job a year later when her department was shuttered.

These days, Howard, 26, makes her living in a way that doesn't require a college diploma: by stripping at the Lido Cabaret, a topless club in Cocoa Beach, Fla. "I didn't know what else to do," she says. "I've got a worthless degree. It's like I didn't attend school at all."