Graduates who earn certificates at community colleges earn an average of nearly $9,000 more than those who go through for-profit training programs, according to new data from the US Department of Education.<\/p>\n
\u201cSome institutions are clearly paying off for graduates, offering a high-value degree relative to other institutions,\u201d the report notes. \u201cIn particular, programs offered by community colleges outperform comparable for-profit programs.\u201d<\/p>\n
Students who attend community colleges not only benefit from higher post-graduate earnings, but they also incur a fraction of the debt borne by their for-profit counterparts.<\/p>\n
Another study by the National Center for Education Statistics found that graduates who earned an occupational credential \u2014 such as certificates in agriculture, industrial technology, computer science, and other common programs at community colleges \u2014 had a higher rate of employment in their fields of study than graduates who received degrees in academic areas like English, liberal arts, mathematics, philosophy, or history.<\/p>\n
Sources: US Department of Education, (http:\/\/ed.gov\/news\/press-releases\/education-department-releases-new-graduate-earnings-data-career-college-programs<\/a>); National Center for Education Statistics (http:\/\/nces.ed.gov\/pubsearch\/pubsinfo.asp?pubid=2016107<\/a>)<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Community college pays off Graduates who earn certificates at community colleges earn an average of nearly $9,000 more than those who go through for-profit training programs, according to new data from the US Department of Education. \u201cSome institutions are clearly paying off for graduates, offering a high-value degree relative to other institutions,\u201d the report notes…. read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":115,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"article_type":[],"class_list":["post-154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nctc.mycareerfocus.org\/spring-2017-volume-2-issue-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154","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=154"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nctc.mycareerfocus.org\/spring-2017-volume-2-issue-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":155,"href":"https:\/\/nctc.mycareerfocus.org\/spring-2017-volume-2-issue-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154\/revisions\/155"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nctc.mycareerfocus.org\/spring-2017-volume-2-issue-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nctc.mycareerfocus.org\/spring-2017-volume-2-issue-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nctc.mycareerfocus.org\/spring-2017-volume-2-issue-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nctc.mycareerfocus.org\/spring-2017-volume-2-issue-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154"},{"taxonomy":"article_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nctc.mycareerfocus.org\/spring-2017-volume-2-issue-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article_type?post=154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}