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In India from low tier colleges, you don't learn anything. Heck, they don't even let you use the machine that are on premise. Only top engineering colleges have any skill if it's even available.

Yes. A lot of universities were found to be fake and shut down. Though it has been a couple of years since I've heard anything more about it.

> for profit college system in the us, where a lot of the programs were fake.

The programs in the US weren't fake ...

The US government (VA, etc.) didn't like paying for schools that had low graduation rates, or had high student loan defaults, so closed them. In some cases, legit trade schools were closed, like Wyotech:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WyoTech

Ironically, this being HN, private investor groups trying to monetize education were behind a lot of the closed schools.

Maybe the term "fake" is over-used, but I meant something along the lines of selling people an expensive training that leaves them in debt and unemployable. Some of those schools also made hyperbolic claims about the career prospects and earnings of their graduates.