The median number of applications world-wide fell 22% in 2012 for the two-year degrees, after a nearly 10% decline last year.
Based in Atlanta, Georgia, Bauder College offers two- and four-year degrees in fashion, business, information technology, medical assistance, interior design and, of course, criminal justice.
Bill was instituted after World War II, we fell from first to ninth in the world among the percentage of all our adults with four-year degrees.
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King's College London and the University of Southampton both offer six-year degrees (a year longer than normal) to about one in ten of their medical students.
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Two-year degrees, of which an associate degree is the most common, provide training and education for a variety of fields in approximately half the time as a bachelor's degree.
He adds it's possible the U.S. could also see demand for traditional four-year degrees drop in order to reduce costs and make curricula more responsive to the needs of a refashioned economy.
Community colleges have also surged in popularity among those who already hold four-year degrees and are looking for practical skills to complement their liberal arts education and give them an advantage in the job market.
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Specialized master's programs, one-year degrees in subjects including finance and accounting, have found particular popularity among younger Chinese students seeking a competitive edge back home, though such programs make up a small share of U.S. graduate schools.
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, unemployment for college graduates aged 24 and younger with four-year degrees was at 8.2% in December, more than twice the rate for older graduates and several points higher than the 5.7% rate before the recession.
And three-year Bachelors degrees followed by two-year Masters are now the general rule, with few exceptions.
Over 90% of new hires in the past three years have at least four-year university degrees, versus 30% in the late 1980s.
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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The temperature there hovers around 90 degrees year-round, though it's often much hotter.
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Today Ashesi, which celebrates its 10th anniversary this year, offers degrees in business, information systems and computer science, with plans to offer engineering and economics majors in the near future.
Rather, the system takes advantage of the fact that the earth underneath Fort Knox (like many places across the country) maintains a more or less constant temperature of 57 degrees year around.
"This time last year it was 22 degrees, everyone was in their shorts, " he said.
In another development, university students are now able to take two-year "foundation" degrees in vocational subjects.
This so-called "superrotation" of the inner core is of the order of 0.3 degrees to 0.5 degrees each year.
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In his speech, Mr Blunkett also pressed universities to offer two-year vocationally-oriented degrees.
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.
Several schools noted they are 2-year institutions that award associate degrees and other professional and technical certifications.
Later Mr Woodhead welcomed the two-year vocationally-orientated foundation degrees announced earlier this month by the Education Secretary, David Blunkett.
While waiting for a campus, the school has been churning out 40 graduates a year with master's degrees in space studies.
Some of the older kids seem closer to being candidates for master's degrees than 5-year-olds.
Last year's average was 58 degrees Fahrenheit (14.5 degrees Celsius), the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said.
The program allocates an additional 20, 000 visas each year to foreign nationals with advanced degrees from U.S. universities.
High-profile names have seen their market values deflate since the beginning of the year, though at widely varying degrees.
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