Most people want to get a college degree after completing high school so they can get a good job with a higher salary and a growing career. The 1st degree in college is either a 4 yr undergraduate bachelors degree or a 2 yr undergraduate associate degree. Community college students complete an associate degree for…
Since college is a huge investment of time, money and effort, it is important to understand how hard it is to get a degree and to figure out how to make it a bit easier to complete college. Though the college major certainly impacts degree completion rates, there are other factors such as the reputation…
When money for college is tight, many families consider community college to be a viable option. But is community college really more advantageous than attending university? Instead of starting with community college, attending a 4 year college or university right at the beginning offers the greatest probability of college completion, contrary to popular opinion. This…
Choosing an in-demand college major with good salaries and job opportunities will set you up for a good career in 2025. General Business and Finance majors will have considerable job growth and good pay in 2025. In healthcare, health care administration and nursing pay well and strong job growth by 2025. The one other field…
Colleges and universities have their own credit transfer policies for newly enrolled students. Credit transfer is the process by which anyone who has earlier completed college courses or any other college-level learning is able to quickly and inexpensively transfer those credits toward their new college degree. Some colleges are strict with credit transfer, whereas others…
With the huge expense of US colleges and colleges worldwide, many people are on the lookout for free online colleges to attend from the comfort of home. University of the People (UoPeople) is the largest, free online college of worldwide reputation. Other approaches to free online college include affordable colleges such as WGU or Excelsior…
From personal experience, I know that many college students undergo financial hardships which cause them to drop out of college and take up a job instead. Many such students are looking for ways to accelerate their college degree completion. The US and other countries have setup special programs to help such students to successfully complete…
Financial constraints and family situations are the 2 most important issues preventing students from attending college. Some students attend college but are later on forced to drop out when they are unable to pay the huge tuition fees. Some students have such difficult family finances that they have to take up any job to support…
Many parents have been leaning towards homeschooling their kids, especially with the deteriorating state of the schooling system. Many are finding that homeschooling provides certain benefits that traditional schooling does not. So can homeschooled kids graduate early from college? If so, that would be yet another benefit of homeschooling. Homeschooling provides most kids with a…
We’ve all heard of students who dropout and about parents and friends who do everything in their power to prevent the student from dropping out of college. Most people automatically assume that a college dropout is doomed for failure. But is it possible to be a college dropout and still be successful in life and…
As a college student, one skill you are required to be an expert is your reading skills. There are many people who provide good tips and advice on how to improve reading skills. But in this post, I am going to take a whole new approach and get to the root or foundation on how…
Have there been some work activities in your life in which you completely lost yourself with full concentration on what you were doing? You might have even had fears or apprehensions thinking about this work earlier. But as you were doing it, it was so engrossing that you completely lost track of time. And when…
