In 2007, just 1 of the 30 graduating seniors at Eskridge enrolled in a four-year college.
Think a community-college degree is worth less than a credential from a four-year college?
She has a four-year college degree and initially was optimistic that she would quickly find work.
First of all, about 30% of American adults have at least a four-year college degree.
Now a freshman at the two-year College of San Mateo in San Mateo, Calif.
While the national rate is 8.3%, the rate is just 4.5% for all four-year college graduates.
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An Advertising Age study from 2003 showed that only 23% of Wal-Mart shoppers had a four-year college degree.
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Congress says it wants colleges to measure outcomes, to access what a person learned during their 4-year college education.
Pretty soon a four year college will be the necessary key for survival.
Ruwhedel had just completed his three-year college career after UMass Lowell was eliminated by Yale in the Frozen Four semifinals Thursday.
They offer an affordable option for middle-class high-school students who want to attend a four-year college but cannot afford the tuition.
In 1995, the top five draft selections were four first-year college students and a student in his final year of high school.
In fact, on average, the holder of a four-year college degree will earn 62% more over their lifetimes than a typical high-school graduate.
"I lost my goals of getting a four-year college degree and moving up the ladder like everyone else wants to do, " she said.
How much might the student be able to borrow, either there or at a four-year college, and how much more might it cost them?
Higher education, whether it's a four-year college or two years at a community college, is the clearest path we've got to the middle class.
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Ninety-five of the graduates said they planned to attend a 2-year or 4-year college, and 23 had earned college credit while at the GOAL Academy.
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Another comment was, you know, what's the best job -- I'm graduating from college, four-year college degree, what's the best job that I should get?
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If the end game is helping your children to be prepared for adulthood, the traditional four year college model might not work for them anyway.
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In most states, the percentage of an average family's income used for a public four-year college -- after financial aid -- has increased, the report said.
Midlife adults (age 45-64) are three times as likely to have a four-year college degree today as they were 15 years ago (from 11.5% to 29.5%).
While critics say the jury pool is less educated (two of the ten jurors in the Abbott case had four-year college degrees), judges there are patent experts.
The relative decline in real wages is greatly unfavorable to the less educated, particularly those without four year college degrees, a group that comprises 70% of all Americans.
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"There's over 400, 000 low-income high school seniors every year who (are) qualified to go to a four-year college, and for whatever reason they just don't go, " Carter said.
While the United States should be pushing alternatives to the traditional four-year college, it also should be pushing alternatives to the way we gauge preparedness for the workplace.
The idea for the Grateful Grads Index actually came from a friend of mine who is a graduate of Harvard, who had just returned from his 30-year college reunion.
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So whether it's at a four-year college, or a community college, or a technical program, some form of higher education, something beyond high school has never been more important.
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Only 56% of students who enroll in a four-year college earn a bachelor's degree within six years, according to a report last year by the Harvard Graduate School of Education.
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