According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, more education means higher earning power and lower unemployment rates. Earning a bachelor’s degree increases average weekly earnings by 62% over settling for a high school diploma. Do earnings just keep skyrocketing the more education a student pursues?
Average Cost of a Graduate Degree
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Jason Berris, a mental health counselor with a bachelor’s degree in psychology, chose to jump head-first into the job market following graduation. He describes his work at Virginia Beach Psychiatric Center as anything but dull. “Patients come in with multiple diagnoses, including alcoholism, drug addiction, and schizophrenia,” says Jason, [...]

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Distance learning has come of age and with it the opportunity to extend your business administration education. There are online business administration programs for PhD studies as well as online MBA programs. Online business administration doctoral programs actually extend into two areas: the Doctor of Business Administration (DBA) which focuses on [...]

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A career in computer science can take you in a number of directions. Computer engineering is akin to electrical engineering: it deals with the machine’s hardware. Computer programming includes the fields of computer operating systems and software. In some schools, software design is a separate discipline from programming – designing software is [...]

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Online graduate education degrees come in all shapes and colors. It behooves the student to assess his/her own interests first; then to assess the strengths of the institutions from which one hopes to get a degree – whether it be statistical, special ed, etc.; and to look for an educational program which [...]

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Are you ready to earn your Master’s degree in Business Administration (MBA)? Is a graduate degree in Business Administration a worthwhile investment? If you are considering furthering your career in the Business Administration field, part of your decision may be weighing the costs of pursuing such education with the long-term benefits. Students [...]

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Considering a Master’s degree in Business Administration? Is a graduate degree in Business Administration a worthwhile investment? If you are considering furthering your career in the Business Administration field, part of your decision may be weighing the costs of pursuing such education with the long-term benefits. Students have countless opportunities and [...]

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Business Administration Management consists of the overseeing and implementation of a company’s departments and resources to maintain success in the business arena. With its ever-advancing technology and its “survival of the fittest” nature, managing a successful business has long been lofty task. In this advanced stage of business administration, it is essential [...]

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People with associate’s degrees in criminal justice will find that the education helps them in a number of entry or lower level positions in the field. Law enforcement officers have not traditionally been required to have college-level education in order to apply. That seems to be changing slowly. While civil service exams [...]

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Early on in the 1960s, when the paralegal career first developed, the position of the paralegal was sort of an upgrade from a legal secretary. A paralegal was less of an office operations focused job, and not a clear profession.
As the position took shape as the role of an “attorney’s assistant,” post-secondary educational programs were [...]

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Our world is always progressing. The rate of technological advancement and the increase of human knowledge is increasing exponentially. Society is becoming more and more competitive as the population expands. Many people at the beginning of their careers find that a bachelor’s degree is losing its value in the employment market.
It is virtually impossible to [...]

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Online schools provide an abundance of opportunities for aspiring healthcare professionals, including almost any administrative or non-medical healthcare career that you can think of. There are some schools that offer online Registered Nursing programs. Both the University of Phoenix Online and Kaplan University offer bachelor of science degrees to individuals who are already working as [...]

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College has evolved drastically over the past few decades. Studying liberal arts for four years is a thing of the past. Today’s college student is more likely to have given some thought to the purpose of his or her college education. That thought process may well conclude that an undergraduate degree has a [...]

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To enhance the image of any company, so that it has a new outlook and to improve the company’s position in the market, advertisers are very much needed. They change the look o the company with their promotions and campaigns. A advertising degree may provide you with the necessary qualification to do the job and [...]

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Accountant wanted: especially those well-versed in the lingo of new financial laws protecting wary investors against “creative” accounting schemes. Must prevent the next Enron scandal and must understand Sarbanes-Oxley.
The potentials in an accounting career were never as bright. With the increase in the number of business all over the country and the world, public demands [...]

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