But for Amirah, she is going straight to a four-year university, and the cost is a lot more than community college.
In America, three-quarters of students on a four-year university course will have toiled as an intern at least once before graduation.
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Over 90% of new hires in the past three years have at least four-year university degrees, versus 30% in the late 1980s.
Technical degree holders from the state's community colleges often earn more their first year out than those who studied the same field at a four-year university.
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That might mean, for many of you, a four-year university.
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Fisk University is a four-year, coeducational, private liberal arts university located in Nashville, Tennessee.
These new ventures will no doubt challenge the traditional four-year residential, physical university model.
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Plus, you can earn an associate degree from a local community college for a fraction of the cost of a four-year degree at a university.
She'll finally get her associate's degree in May, and then she plans to move on to a four-year school, the University of Central Florida, to study forensics.
Forbes contributor Steve Denning recently wrote two pieces, one about the most hated jobs, using data from another jobs website, CareerBliss, and a piece about the supposedly happiest jobs from a Christian Science Monitor slide show about a four-year-old General Social Survey by the National Organization for Research at the University of Chicago.
Ten years ago, her seventy-four-year-old father, Jack Block, a professor emeritus of psychology at the University of California at Berkeley, was admitted to a San Francisco hospital with symptoms from what proved to be a mass growing in the spinal cord of his neck.
Four-year schools could follow the lead of the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh, which used the program to connect with dropouts who might still be interested in a two-year diploma.
These schools feeds into a system of four-year universities among which are such engineering giants as Purdue University.
But the enrolment of Prince William, in his final year of a four-year geography degree, is thought to have boosted the university's reputation among the English privately-educated gentry.
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They will have to sign a contract with their parents, committing them to the four-year scheme, which aims to encourage them to go to university.
If you are interested in insects as food, contact Alexandre Kournwsky, co-founder of Ambrosia or Wageningen University, which has a four year program designed to produce scientific and business research on the subject.
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Ms. Yende began studying and went on the University of Cape Town for four years, followed by a two-year post-graduate degree.
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It was reported this week that the University of Texas regents will deliberate offering head football coach Mack Brown a four-year contract extension.
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The University of Washington climbed up from number four last year to oust Green Mountain College from the first-place spot.
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