Several years later, then a single mother, she decided to get a degree in computer science.
But young women are now 25% more likely to get a degree than men.
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My fallback plan was to get a degree in Psychology and become a therapist.
The story is incredibly disheartening: only one of the three young women he follows is still working to get a degree.
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Narayen grew up wanting to be a journalist, but his parents insisted he get a degree in electrical engineering from Osmania University in Hyderabad.
But even I must admit the thought of kids borrowing tens of thousands to get a degree in "30 Rock" may require some intervention.
In a country where half the population went to college, would it pay for one person to borrow money and struggle to get a degree?
But with this difference: The Nadimpallis own the stocks directly and get a degree of customization and a sense of control not available to mutual fund owners.
In 1988 he got a degree in computer science at Tufts University--and met his future wife, Pamela, who came from Hawaii to get a degree in biology.
By developing low-cost distance education programs new companies have found new markets, especially among working adults who want to get a degree without giving up their full-time jobs.
By and large, for-profit education firms like Apollo Group (APOL) have been taking advantage of new trends in education by providing class structures that suit working adults who want to get a degree.
Even those who do well in school, like the three girls in the article, will struggle: only about a quarter of low-income eighth graders with above-average scores get a degree, yet 30 percent of students with lower scores but more money will.
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Most of all, put yourself in the shoes of your future boss and imagine whom you would rather hire: the candidate who built a profitable business over the course of two years, or the candidate who sat in lectures and reviewed case studies to get a degree?
He advised him to get a law degree and sell himself as a salary cap expert.
Pushed to get a law degree by his lawyer father, he toiled as a stockbroker, not publishing his first novel until 1863, at the ripe old age of 35.
It's a vision that says, maybe I never had a chance to get a good education, but I want my daughter to go to college, maybe get a second degree.
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He spent his schooldays learning how to bash metal before deciding to get a law degree.
By contrast, 42% of grads who are already working say they plan to get a graduate degree.
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"My whole family's relying on me to get a good degree and support them, " sighed one student.
Kids are going to come here, get a meaningful degree and work hard to achieve that degree.
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Only 18% of pending 2013 grads plan to get a graduate degree to get ahead in their career.
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After graduating in 2008, Kabban planned to go to Egypt to get a graduate degree in refugee studies.
And neither of my parents had a chance to get a college degree.
And neither of my parents had the chance to get a college degree.
You see Lois decided to get a Masters degree from Columbia University, so she lived in New York for two years.
"Unfortunately they are piling on the work at the moment but I want to be a top athlete and I want to get a good degree, " she said.
Amanda, being raised by her Catholic grandparents after her mother abandoned her, was determined to avoid pregnancy and become the first in her family to get a college degree.
The bottom line is that if someone is working hard to get a college degree in the U.S., we should do everything possible to help him or her after they graduate.
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Schlunk argues that undergraduate grades are a strong indicator of future earnings power and that the fact that high-achieving undergraduates are more likely to get a law degree has skewed earnings comparisons.
At the high end of the spectrum, assuming 1, 280 hrs of time to get a minor degree, that equates to 160 eight hour work days, i.e. 32 weeks of full-time work experience assuming 8 hour days Monday through Friday.
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