Sentences with phrase «own college degrees»

Only 12 percent of Hispanic men and 21 percent of black men have a college degree by their late 20s, compared to nearly 40 percent of white men, according to the National Center for Education Statistics at the Department of Education.

He believes a college degree will help him launch a successful career in TV or film but thinks his military experience would be the most valuable to future employers.

While plenty importance is placed on earning a college degree, the financial benefit of having one might be overstated.

It should be no surprise then that college degrees have also changed.

It's like a college degree — doing it for the paper is silly.

The kid without a college degree or the woman who was told she didn't have leadership potential often possesses a burning desire to prove other people wrong.

You don't necessarily need a college degree, a bunch of money in the bank or even business experience to start something that could become the next major success.

In our study, we found that the majority of on - demand workers (89 percent) had at least a two - year college degree.

Using debt to pay for something that has value, like a home or a college degree, can help you get ahead.

How to Qualify: If you're looking to be a manager in community services, Service Canada says you'll likely need a university or college degree or diploma in order to move up the ranks and occupy this job.

My experience has been attitude trumps college degrees and titles.

Musk has pointed out that Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, and Google co-founder Larry Page all lack college degrees.

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.

She had a college degree; she had been a computer programmer.

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.

If he falls in the range for 71 - year - olds with a college degree (he has a bachelor's from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania), then even if his language, memory, and other mental capacities have declined over the years he is probably not suffering from early Alzheimer's or other dementia.

One of the facts in Hillary Rodham Clinton's biography that has always loomed large in my mind is her Wellesley College degree.

With the employment landscape shifting rapidly thanks to tech in general and artificial intelligence in particular, and the economy increasingly feeling like a winner - takes - all game, no wonder more and more families are pushing their kids towards practical - seeming, specialized college degrees like finance, computer science, and media.

Choosing marriage over a college degree or a career, she embarked on a course that would take her to the United Nations and China, the vice president's residence in Washington during Ronald Reagan's two terms as president, and the White House as first lady from 1989 to 1993.

Jobs was a talented individual who didn't have a college degree, yet had the intelligence, creativity and innovation to create new technology.

You don't need a college degree, but you do need to be aware of the risks and realities of business ownership.

Don't overestimate the power of a college degree.

Note that the only one that doesn't generally require a college degree is the last entry.

Friends, spouses, cash, assets and hairlines come and go, but a college degree or welding cert can never be taken away from you.

It touches on a larger debate as to whether a college degree is worth the investment when student loan balances are soaring and new graduates often struggle to find jobs.

«And my mom really, without a college degree, went back to school [and] showed us, «Hey, this is not going to end like that, and every one of you are going to have a chance.»»

Then, once you find and click the unsubscribe link, you might require an advanced college degree to understand the steps necessary to remove yourself from the email list.

Rhonda Kallman had no college degree, «but she was capable, resourceful, committed, energetic, driven, smart, and great with people,» says Koch.

Knowing what to do in a modern office requires a college degree or experience, and anyone in the birth order can attain that.

Kallman was a woman in her 20s without a college degree who «liked bars and liked people.»

There's no doubt that they are going to become more popular and will be a real alternative to traditional college degrees in the next few years.

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.

As Mark Zuckerberg, Steve Jobs, and many entrepreneurs before them have proved, getting a college degree is definitely not a prerequisite for running a successful business.

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Since owning a college degree has become the «done thing», these profit - making institutions have seen the chance to make a lot of money.

PadillaCRT polled 1,000 millennials with at least a four - year college degree between the ages of 22 to 35 in May last year.

Pay for most workers has been stagnant for a generation, and opportunities for the majority of Americans without a college degree are shrinking.

For people who decide not to pursue a college degree, it might seem challenging to find a job that both is appealing and pays a living wage.

After being promised that a college degree would be the key to job success, many millennials found themselves either un - or under - employed.

«It's absolutely true that not everyone needs a college degree.»

Coming from losing my dream of playing professional football, not having a college degree at the time and looking to jump into the business world at a young age was pretty daunting for me.

In the U.S, an increasing number of employees who don't have a college degree remain at risk.

But what we see is that 50 % of college graduates coming out are not finding jobs or they're taking jobs that really don't require a college degree.

These Gen Z respondents do, however, expect to progress through certain traditional milestones before buying their first home like earning an advanced college degree (60 percent), getting married (59 percent), owning a pet (58 percent) and having children (21 percent).

There are a lot of great companies that no longer need a college degree to get a job.

I don't know what this says about the current state of jobs in America, but consider this: With a college degree in finance, Arnold said he took home about $ 2,200 a month from his full - time job.

This piece alone helped me finally finish up a college degree that had been awaiting completion for over six years.

A college degree generally gives people a leg up in buying a home and achieving other middle - class goals.

Goodwin, whose Davidson College degree is also in economics, brewed beer at home for five years.