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Want vocational or technical training along with solid academics? An associate degree program with about 60 credit hours will prepare you for in-demand professions in fields such as business, health care, information technology, and more.<\/p>\n<\/b>Really. Think of everything you\u2019ve already accomplished, whether you just graduated from high school, or you\u2019re raising a family, or earning a living every day. Whether life\u2019s been filled with hard knocks or high hopes, you\u2019ve made it this far, and you\u2019re ready to start thinking about what\u2019s next.<\/p>\nYou\u2019re Amazing<\/h3>\n
Really. Think of everything you\u2019ve already accomplished, whether you just graduated from high school, or you\u2019re raising a family, or earning a living every day. Whether life\u2019s been filled with hard knocks or high hopes, you\u2019ve made it this far, and you\u2019re ready to start thinking about what\u2019s next.<\/p>\n
At NCTC, we\u2019re here to empower you- your dreams, your passion, your future.<\/p>\n
Want to get into a new career as quickly as possible? A certificate program can have you on the job within a year. We offer short-term skills certificates and professional certificates.<\/p>\n
Want vocational or technical training along with solid academics? An associate degree program with about 60 credit hours will prepare you for in-demand professions in fields such as business, health care, information technology, and more.<\/p>\n
Plan on earning a bachelor\u2019s degree or higher? Two years of foundation courses at NCTC will prepare you to transfer to nearly any four-year college in the nation and save you thousands of dollars too. All of NCTC\u2019s associate degree programs also prepare you for transfer to related bachelor\u2019s degree programs at four-year universities too.<\/p>\n
Explore the NCTC programs listed below for a career that empowers your future and your passion.<\/p>\n
Visit our website<\/a> for more information about these programs and to apply *Non-credit offering<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Really. Think of everything you\u2019ve already accomplished, whether you just graduated from high school, or you\u2019re raising a family, or earning a living every day. Whether life\u2019s been filled with hard knocks or high hopes, you\u2019ve made it this far, and you\u2019re ready to start thinking about what\u2019s next. You\u2019re Amazing Really. Think of everything… read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":114,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,29,18,30,21,22,3,4,2,31],"tags":[],"article_type":[],"class_list":["post-152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-computer-forensic","category-computer-technology","category-criminal-justice-and-corrections","category-cybersecurity","category-emergency-services","category-fire-science","category-health-care-careers","category-healthcare-and-medical","category-nursing","category-truck-driver"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nctc.mycareerfocus.org\/spring-2017-volume-2-issue-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nctc.mycareerfocus.org\/spring-2017-volume-2-issue-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nctc.mycareerfocus.org\/spring-2017-volume-2-issue-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nctc.mycareerfocus.org\/spring-2017-volume-2-issue-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nctc.mycareerfocus.org\/spring-2017-volume-2-issue-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nctc.mycareerfocus.org\/spring-2017-volume-2-issue-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":153,"href":"https:\/\/nctc.mycareerfocus.org\/spring-2017-volume-2-issue-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152\/revisions\/153"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nctc.mycareerfocus.org\/spring-2017-volume-2-issue-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nctc.mycareerfocus.org\/spring-2017-volume-2-issue-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nctc.mycareerfocus.org\/spring-2017-volume-2-issue-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nctc.mycareerfocus.org\/spring-2017-volume-2-issue-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152"},{"taxonomy":"article_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nctc.mycareerfocus.org\/spring-2017-volume-2-issue-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article_type?post=152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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