The rate is nearly double that of the rate for people who have bachelor degrees.
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The number of applicants with bachelor degrees and higher who gained jobs during that period was 187, 000.
On average, women still earn less money than men doing the same level of work, and even though we outnumber men when it comes to bachelor degrees earned, we are still grossly underrepresented in higher-level leadership positions.
Officials plan to launch the full program this fall, with bachelor's degrees in subjects including information technology and diagnostic imaging, plus master's and bachelor's degrees for registered nurses.
Hsu graduated from the University of Washington at age 16 with three bachelor of science degrees.
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They earn 57% of bachelor's degrees, 59% of master's degrees and half of doctorates.
But no other state system is offering competency-based bachelor's degrees on a systemwide basis.
Graduation, transfer rate, and retention rate data refer to full-time, first-time students pursuing bachelor's degrees.
The NCAA does not require that head coaches have bachelor's degrees, an association spokeswoman said, but many schools do.
All enrollment and graduation data refer to full-time, first-time students pursuing bachelor's degrees.
Kosik received her Bachelor of Arts degrees in Broadcast Journalism and Political Science from The American University in Washington, DC.
Wisconsin officials tout the UW Flexible Option as the first to offer multiple, competency-based bachelor's degrees from a public university system.
But fewer students want to study humanities subjects: English departments awarded more bachelor's degrees in 1970-71 than they did 20 years later.
In the U.K., the number of Bachelor of Science degrees in alternative medicine has grown over the past decade, and six institutions actually offer a degree in homeopathy.
Morsi -- who has Bachelor and Master degrees from Cairo University and a doctorate from the University of Southern California -- insists that under his leadership, such abuses won't happen.
While historically black colleges make up only 3 percent of the colleges and universities in the United States, they award 27 percent of the bachelor's degrees earned by black students nationwide.
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University of Wisconsin will grant bachelor's degrees based on a person's knowledge as demonstrated in online tests, not on class time or credits, the first such offering from a public university system.
And billionaires that did finish their bachelor's degrees are equally likely to have studied liberal arts and then risen through corporate marketing or sales departments as they are to have studied hard science or engineering.
Elsewhere, some schools offer competency-based credits or associate degrees in areas such as nursing and business, while Northern Arizona University plans a similar program that would offer bachelor's degrees for a flat fee, said spokesman Eric Dieterle.
College seniors get their bachelor's degrees, spend a few extra days on campus to attend post-graduation parties and then embark on the next phase of their lives: living back home with their parents while they hunt for a job.
Increasing the retention of STEM majors to just 50 percent would generate approximately three-quarters of the targeted 1 million additional STEM graduates over the next decade - adding approximately 75, 000 more STEM graduates with bachelor or associate degrees each year.
It's true that those with bachelor's degrees typically earn more over a lifetime than those with a two-year degree, but that's little consolation to those who are discouraged from going to community colleges and end up dropping out of a four-year school without a degree.
Yet over the past decade, the number of people with bachelor's degrees grew by a remarkable 50% in Austin and Charlotte and by over 30% in Tampa, Houston, Dallas and Atlanta a far greater percentage growth rate than in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago or New York.
Balloon sinuplasty is the brainchild of Joshua Makower, a 42-year-old inventor who holds a trifecta of degrees: a bachelor of science in mechanical engineering from MIT, an M.
Enrollment at the company's flagship school, which offers associate's, bachelor's and graduate degrees, tumbled to 319, 700 in the latest quarter from highs of nearly a half-million students in 2010.
Afterward, he earned bachelor's and master's degrees from the historically black Howard University in Washington, according to the Trinity Web site.
According to his website, he studied composition with Vincent Persichetti at the Philadelphia Conservatory of Music and earned bachelor's and master's degrees from the University of Pennsylvania.
Morsi -- who has bachelor's and master's degrees from Cairo University and a doctorate from the University of Southern California -- insists that under his leadership, such abuses won't happen.
The region's nimbler, more market-oriented colleges have been helped by the new practice of dividing education into chunks (bachelor's and master's degrees, for a start), with work sandwiched in between.
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