Online courses can be provided as part of regular degree programs or as discrete curriculum-independent products.
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That severe shortage has ended as pharmacy degree programs have grown over the past decade.
The school, founded in 1890, offers multiple degree programs and is so successful it needs larger quarters.
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Expect colleges to respond with shorter degree programs and employers to start looking for better ways to evaluate talent.
Many colleges and universities are beginning to make forays into educational innovation, especially in online learning and degree programs.
In reality, more than half of low-income college-ready students don't enroll in four-year bachelor's degree programs because they can't afford the cost.
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Though the news is a major step for MOOCs, free online courses are still a long way from replacing costly degree programs.
Since college-degree programs are multiyear commitments, the effects will continue to be felt for many quarters to come even if enrollments bounce back.
If degree programs are falling short in equipping new workers with high-demand skills, where should employees and executives turn for a mutually beneficial solution?
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It has joined with four colleges, including the University of North Carolina and the University of Southern California, to deliver master's degree programs online.
Unfortunately, the majority of our colleges and universities lack degree programs focused on energy, and the U.S. power engineering education system is on the decline.
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Online degree programs are increasingly being integrated with regular, in-person studies.
By the same logic, not all degree programs are created equal.
Unlike regular degree programs, which provide a macro education on a general topic (say, Computer Science), badges certify micro-based competency in a very specific skill (say, JavaScript).
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But the focus of our online World Campus, where courses have completion rates of 90% or better, will remain on helping traditional campus-based students to complete degree programs.
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Private student loans are available to cover education costs at select schools offering undergraduate and graduate degree programs and are available to students with or without a cosigner.
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The UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science, established in 1945, offers 28 academic and professional degree programs and has an enrollment of almost 5, 000 students.
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The test is designed to focus mainly on an applicant's ability to "efficiently sift through lots of different information, " says Peter Zemsky, deputy dean of degree programs and curriculum.
Your list can include community colleges, state universities, institutions offering two-year degree programs, private colleges (regardless of sticker price), colleges close to home and colleges away from home, even out-of-state.
With unemployment rates and salary levels correlating almost perfectly to education levels, the true challenge facing higher education, whether online or on campus, is helping students to successfully complete college degree programs.
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The HEEC is established by the Chinese Ministry of Education in 2004 to organize and implement the evaluation of baccalaureate degree programs and associate degree programs offered in institutions of higher education.
It was basic business and economics applied to higher education, and the result was a bold set of recommendations that has sparked a fervent debate over the relative value of various bachelor degree programs.
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While online courses and degree programs are approaches that are being adopted by many schools, franchise-like affiliation with local and regional institutions offer the possibility of a blended approach that still incorporates a physical campus.
Currently, there is a national shortage of sign language interpreters in the United States, even though there are 40 schools offering bachelor degree programs in American Sign Language (ASL) interpreting and 78 that offer associate degrees.
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Competitors include DeVry (DV), Career Education (CECO) and Corinthian Colleges (COCO), and Grand Canyon Education, which, along with Apollo, are all facing new hurdles on the heels of more robust online degree programs from traditional institutions.
The picture was different abroad: Some 79% of two-year degree programs in the Asian-Pacific region and 80% of those in Central Asia experienced application gains as more locals sought graduate certifications and international students considered the region's strong job markets and economic opportunities.
M, entitled Online Tutoring: A New Retention and Remediation Solution, found that while the number of students enrolling in undergraduate degree programs has increased 34 percent from 2000 to 2009, the number of those students who are unprepared for college has increased proportionately.
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In this interview with Peter Zemsky, Deputy Dean of degree programs at INSEAD, he talks about how business education can help MBA students to become better leaders, in an environment designed to test them, push them, stress them, and expose them to different perspectives on the personal journey to leadership.
The Stanford proposal, submitted in response to a New York City request for expressions of interest, outlines a high-technology campus that could be constructed in phases over 25 years to provide graduate degree-granting programs for students in engineering, computer science and business.
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It takes a master's degree from one of the country's 272 accredited programs as well as licensing that varies by state.
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