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.
Florida will not let you work as an interior designer unless you complete a four-year university degree and a two-year apprenticeship and pass a two-day examination.
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That might mean, for many of you, a four-year university.
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She visits at least twice a year with Li and is involved in recruiting top administrators such as Peihua Gu, a 16-year University of Calgary engineering scholar who is academic vice president.
The number of full-time undergraduates starting their first year at university rose by 2% on the year before, to 521, 560.
Heriot-Watt University has been named as Scottish University of the Year by the Sunday Times University Guide for the second year running.
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It was 2008 and the start of spring break during our senior year at university.
Ms Rebello was in her third year of university, studying public relations, Hofstra University said.
This year the university's Board of Governors bestowed an honorary doctorate on Harvard Prof.
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It is compulsory for all from the start of secondary school to the second year of university.
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Once selected, they would attend an intensive summer school followed by on-the-job training alongside their final year of university.
I'm taking a gap year before university and I want to say I have done something worthwhile in that time.
The 120-year old university is in effect being abolished after BBC Wales' investigations raised questions about its scrutiny of partner colleges.
Last year the University of Central Lancashire in Preston introduced an application for freshers, with maps, information about services and local transport.
The robbery might never have been mentioned again if Nnamabia had not been arrested two years later, in his second year of university.
Julia O'Dwyer said the postponement gave them a "bit more time" to prepare their case and Mr O'Dwyer could finish his year at university.
Each year the University of Michigan's Ross School of Business and the Michigan Interactive Investments (MII) Club sponsor an intercollegiate stock pitch competition.
World Press Freedom Day's annual conference is held in a different location each year and this year the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia holds the honour.
Every year his university sends him an anonymous survey.
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Similarly, an analysis of national crime statistics done last year by University of Florida criminology student Nicholas Branic found that living in a gated community does not significantly influence a person's likelihood of victimization.
For example, earlier this year the University of Minnesota found that charters in the twin cities of Minneapolis-St Paul lagged behind public elementary schools, ranking 7.5% lower for maths and 4.4% lower for reading.
Last year a University of Calgary trial found that people on overnight dialysis (with traditional machines) needed fewer hypertension drugs and their thickened heart muscles shrank, according to the results in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
Partly, it began as an experiment after my first year of university: Could I survive without news reports, without the media, even as a member of the media, by getting my breaking news (the important stuff) via my network.
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In a series of animal experiments published over the past year, university-based neuroscientists genetically engineered mice and monkeys with different types of neurons primed to be uniquely responsive to shades of laser light, so that a single type of activity or behavior could be altered instantly without affecting anything else.
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On Thursday the legendary iPhone hacker Comex, who I identified last year as 20-year old Brown University student Nicholas Allegra, wrote on Twitter that after a year as an intern for the company whose products he once expertly deconstructed, his time at Apple has abruptly ended.
This year, the University of Chicago launched its own Singapore operation, designed to complement its successful five-year-old Barcelona program.
He has just completed his second year at American University, where his concentration is prelaw.
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