Sentences with phrase «more than a college»

The following 50 books should keep you busy for awhile and teach you more than any college education.

The growing tech economy is creating a huge number of well - paying, upwardly mobile jobs — far more than colleges, universities, and for - profit bootcamps can fill — which offer immense financial and professional rewards for those equipped to participate.

You may like pro football more than college - plenty do - but you aren't me.

The New York Public Interest Research Group reported recently that three of the state's largest insurers charge blue - collar workers significantly more than college - educated professionals with the same driving record.

Even though child care costs more than college tuition in many states, college affordability seems to get more attention.

Far more than a college town, Iowa City is an enchanting blend of bustling metropolis and old world Americana.

That's preparing them for more than college.

According to Code.org, Computer Science majors can earn 40 % more than the college average for other academic disciplines.

Cyndi Patterson also looks for signs that a candidate recognizes the need to learn more than college taught them.

Ultimately, we are preparing our students for more than college and careers; we are preparing them to be productive members of society and valued members of their families and workplaces.

Some colleges cooperate with universities in order to be able to give students more than a college diploma.

Nevertheless, Madison is much more than a college town — it has plenty of water access through several lakes, the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, and the famed Dane County Farmer's Market, one of the country's largest.

And no one needs money more than a college student on a diet of microwave noodles.

Describing the packs of former users signing off the site for good, she wondered if Facebook was no more than a college clique, doomed to become an «online ghost town, run by zombie users who never update their pages, with packs of marketers picking at the corpses of social circles they once hoped to exploit.»

Not exact matches

Programs that provide skills development, mentoring and clear pathways to success from cradle to college and career, can generate benefits that are more than three times their costs, exceeding the rates of return seen in many private sector business investments.

The annual cost of incarceration for a single juvenile is over $ 100,000 — more than twice as high as tuition at the most expensive college in the country, according to the American Correctional Association and the Chronicle of Higher Education.

«Far more important than dialing down the margin of error is making sure that whatever you're aiming at is unbiased and that you do have a representative sample,» says Andrew Bray, an assistant professor of statistics at Reed College.

You can make more than just a few bucks If you have pricey text books from college.

While many people believe that spring break is nothing more than an excuse for wild college debauchery, it is actually the ideal time to get away from work, school, and cold weather — no matter your age.

Since 1980, divorce rates have more than doubled among middle - age whites without college degrees, from 11 % to 23 %.

It's more difficult for them to land good jobs, according to a study from the Pew Research Center, in spite of the fact that more millennials are getting college degrees than their parents did.

College basketball players are ineligible for pay, but many coaches cash in — none more than Coach K, or Mike Krzyzewski, Duke University's head men's basketball team coach.

A recent college graduate with little more than an internship on his or her resume can quickly become your next star, so long as they have the space and resources to blossom.

There's also some stacking going on, meaning if you set expectations in daughters» heads that they should go to college AND they should not get pregnant as teenagers, they're more likely to make it to age 20 without having a child than they would have been if you'd only pushed the «don't have a baby until you're old enough to be ready» message.

Companies are becoming increasingly more committed to gender diversity once studies began exposing the uncomfortable truth: «Women remain underrepresented at every level in corporate America, despite earning more college degrees than men for thirty years and counting,» states the report.

Whether they dropped out or stuck it out, going to college more than paid off for today's top tech startup billionaires — higher ed skeptic and Stanford alum Peter Thiel included.

One study found that college students who drank four to five drinks at a time more than once a week were more likely to overeat after drinking compared to students who drank one to two drinks at a time (18).

Today, I am more than halfway through my child - rearing years, and pretty soon my two older children will be off to college, which means with fewer distractions I can dedicate myself to another endeavor.

Google is hiring more teenagers than college graduates, and even a 12 - year - old who is just beginning high school.

Eighty - six percent of employed millennial college graduates are more likely than those with a high school diploma or less to say they have found a «career.»

As tuition rates continue to rise and colleges suffer painful funding cuts, football Bowl Subdivision schools spend more than $ 91,000 per athlete.

At the same time, college costs have, according to published reports, increased 1,225 percent since 1978 (that is not a typo)-- more than housing, food or health - care expenses.

Sales of school - and college - related items — all those backpacks and binders, tablets and smartphones — brought in more than US$ 80 billion in the U.S. last year.

The event, now in its 27th year, is one of the city's largest — more than 170,000 people pile into the growing desert locale to make deals, listen to copious amounts of music and explore this always - active college town.

DeMars observes that in the U.S. alone more than 300 colleges and universities now offer ethics curricula, whereas a decade ago it was fewer than 10.

Currently, two thirds, or more than 2,000, U.S. colleges and universities now offer a course in entrepreneurship, according to the Kauffman Foundation.

Saban, meanwhile, said that he felt it would be unfair to blame the players for leaving, suggesting that because of the college - football playoff, most bowl games have become little more than an exhibition game.

Test - takers no longer will lose points for wrong answers, a feature meant to discourage guessing but that produced agonized complaints that the exam was more an exercise in strategy than a measure of college - readiness.

Over the past decade, Toronto has become the undisputed capital of Canadian innovation, with more than 600 startups, the country's largest cluster of universities and colleges pumping out research, and the deepest venture capital pockets in the land.

Other new steps outlined by the administration include an online policy challenge to encourage entrepreneurs to offer new ideas to foster innovation, educational programs and commitments from more than 100 community colleges to promote entrepreneurship.

Here's what the 17 - year - old learned from applying to 100 colleges and earning more than $ 2.5 million in scholarships.

More than half of the kids that go through school or pediatric vision screenings every year have vision disorders that go unnoticed, according to the College of Optometrists in Vision Development (COVD), a non-profit, international membership association of eye care professionals.

«College grades,» Barker writes, «aren't any more predictive of subsequent life success than rolling dice.»

With a nearly 16 percent stake in Dell and ties going back three decades to the creation of the company out of his college dorm room, Michael Dell is seen as having much more at stake in the deal going through than Silver Lake, a financial investor that often walks away from deals.

In fact, 42 percent of women have more than $ 30,000 in college debt, compared with 27 percent of men.

While their contributions as pivotal voters have gone largely unacknowledged, Ohio black voters, in particular, have pulled more than their weight for Democratic victories in one of the most highly contested states in the Electoral College.

Last month, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology won a competition among more than 1,000 college students who presented design concepts for how the Hyperloop might transport pods of people from city to city at high speeds.

The zone now covers over 100 blocks and serves more than 12,000 children, with 95 % of high school seniors going off to college.

Policy makers favor the manufacturing sector because it has historically provided good paying jobs for middle - skill workers, or those folks who have more than a high school education but not a four - year college degree.

Students shouldn't borrow more in loans than they'll make in their first year of employment, said Jeff Selingo, author of «There Is Life After College: What Parents and Students Should Know About Navigating School to Prepare for the Jobs of Tomorrow.»