Although women earn the majority of associate degrees and certificates awarded by community colleges, they are concentrated in fields requiring lower skills and paying lower wages.
Students can earn certificates or associate degrees in either vocational or academic programmes that typically offer higher wages and better job opportunities than non-science fields.
As of 1995, Hispanic women of all education levels, except for those without high school diplomas or associate degrees, had parity in earnings with white women.
In the United States, an associate degree, for example, is acceptable to employers in many professional and service-related fields and can be acquired in two years.
She earned an associate degree in family living, and when their youngest child was in high school, she returned to school and earned a master’s degree in teaching.
Another development worthy of note is the inclusion of a course entitled Gender Management in the Associate Degree Programme at the (NA) Community College, the country’s lone tertiary institution.
Bible colleges primarily offer undergraduate degrees, but may also offer graduate degrees, lower-level associate degrees, certificates or diplomas in specialized areas of Christian training where a full degree is not required.
However, nearly half (45 per cent) of women students do not earn a certificate or associate degree or transfer to a four-year institution within six years after first enrolling in a community college.
The university originally served only upper-division and graduate level students, because Florida intended the institution "to complement the state's community college system, accepting students who had earned their associate degrees from those institutions."
Additionally, the Faculty offers an Associate Science Degree in Environmental Health that specifically trains environmental health professionals in health.
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