OAR 715-045-0033: Standards for Advertising

(1) Printed school publications, brochures, or pamphlets shall be on file at the school and available upon request to any prospective student, enrolled student, and the Department. (2) A school catalog shall meet the requirements of OAR 715-045-0019. (3) Upon request of the student, the school must provide the following information no later than at the time the student signs an enrollment agreement: (a) Number of students enrolled in the program at the beginning of the current reporting period; (b) Number of students who enrolled in the program during the last reporting period; (c) Number of students who left the program without completing it during the last reporting period; (d) Number of students who graduated from the program during the last reporting period; and (e) Number of those who graduated and were placed or working full time in directly related occupations during the last reporting period. (4) Subsections (3)(b) through (e) of this rule do not apply to prelicense schools as in OAR 715-045-0014. (5) A school shall have records available to document any statements made by the school through its advertising including salary and placement claims. (6) A school shall not advertise that it is endorsed, recommended, or approved by the Higher Education Coordinating commission or the commission’s executive director. The school may use the phrase "licensed by the Oregon Higher Education Coordinating Commission" in its advertising material. (7) If a school offers programs licensed by the commission and also offers programs that do not require licensure, the school shall clearly identify each type of program in any publication. (8) Any school that performs services for the public shall conspicuously display in the reception area a sign indicating that exclusively either students or employees, or both perform its services. (9) A school licensed to offer instruction as a Private Career School for one or more programs shall provide students, prior to enrollment, a copy of a basic program and school fact page for each program for which a certificate or diploma is offered. The fact page shall include information regarding: (A) The total cost of the program; (B) Programmatic and institutional accrediting bodies; (C) Transfer of credit to other accredited institutions, listing of any transfer articulation agreements with other institutions and in an attached document make available to students the related transfer articulation pre-requisite information; (D) Program length, and the average time students take to graduate by program, and at whole school level; (E) Graduation rate; (F) Median borrowing (federal and private loans) amount, and median annual loan payments of students; (G) Loan default rate; (H) Job placement success which is defined as a percent of students who are employed in the field of study (by program); (I) Median starting salary for graduates; (J) Gainful employment results as outlined under U.S. Department of Education accountability metrics; and (i) The Commission, at its discretion, may waive the requirement above for non-career/non-vocational academic programs offered by regulated and licensed Oregon non-profits. (ii) A school is licensed to offer instruction shall submit to the Commission a copy of the program fact page for each program on or before September 1 of each year commencing 2017.