Working professionals and students are now choosing to make their homes on the white, sandy beaches of the U.S. Virgin Islands. Colleges and universities are available through distance education on St. Croix, St. Thomas, and St. John. A growing economy is offering more employment opportunities to college graduates, and some students are deciding to put [...]

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Nearly a quarter of the population in Guam consists of U.S. military personnel and their dependents. Anderson Air Force Base, on the North side of the island, and Apra Harbor, a large U.S. Naval base, provide significant boosts to the economy of Guam. Colleges and universities are not plentiful on an island that depends heavily [...]

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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 conceptual, while programming [...]

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Do you feel like you are working at a dead-end job, putting in endless hours and never getting ahead? Have you always felt that you wanted to get your associate’s degree or bachelor’s degree, or maybe complete an MBA or even a PhD? Or maybe you want to get a degree in Education and teach [...]

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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 are still involved, [...]

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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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Informatics is a new word to a lot of people. In medicine, it describes the field of information utilization. More specifically, informatics is the science of organizing, managing, analyzing and putting to use the knowledge that results from this process. Informatics is data management performed in such a fashion as to make that data more [...]

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