Sentences with phrase «than your graduate degree»

«Combining observation scores, student feedback, and student achievement gains was better than graduate degrees or years of teaching experience at predicting a teacher's student achievement gains with another group of students on the state tests».

According to the story, «many parents see business ownership as a better bet for their kids» future than a graduate degree».

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«When I graduated from Georgetown in 2012, I walked away with more than just a Master's degree — I also had about $ 20,000 in student loans and another $ 5,000 in credit card debt.

Most parents are aware that over the course of an adult's working life, high school graduates can expect, on average, to earn $ 1 million less than those with a bachelor's degree and are 50 percent more likely to be unemployed.

Paying off student loans shouldn't feel like a bigger accomplishment than earning a degree, but that's the unfortunate reality for many graduates.

In fact, there are more people over the age of 25 in D.C. with a graduate degree (32.3 percent) than there are with only a bachelor's degree (23.8 %).

Of those that then choose to go back for a graduate degree, more and more choose other disciplines rather than pursuing a largely redundant MBA.

Orr has ties to the state other than his work with Chrysler (for which he billed more than $ 1 million in fees), having received his law and graduate degrees from the University of Michigan.

More women than ever are earning graduate business degrees, and at younger ages than ever before.

That's why PayScale surveyed 2.3 million graduates of more than 2,400 colleges and universities to report their pay, major, highest degree earned, and associate's or bachelor's school name where appropriate.

According to the Wall Street Journal, seven in 10 bachelor's degree recipients were expected to graduate with student loans averaging $ 35,000 — more than twice the inflation - adjusted amount owed by students two decades ago.

«More women than ever are earning graduate business degrees, and at younger ages than ever before,» Fortune reports.

Fifty - six - year - old Amie Crawford, who graduated with an associate's degree in interior design from the Art Institute of Pittsburgh and had a successful 30 - year career as an interior designer, never thought she'd be in a job where the average take - home pay was less than a fifth of what she had made before.

College graduates with an economics degree earn a starting salary of $ 48,500 on average, almost 20 % more than those who major in business administration, according to Payscale.com.

CIBC also found that real weekly wages of high school and college graduates have risen by 13 per cent versus eight per cent among undergraduate degree holders and more than double the rate seen among MA and PhD holders.

Overall, higher education still translates into better wages — those with a bachelor's degree, on average, earn more than 30 per cent more than high school graduates.

Money: While pay in the field starts low — research assistants with BAs make less than $ 35,000 — those with graduate degrees can earn over $ 80,000, and senior advisers crack six figures.

A 2014 report from the New American Foundation estimated that 40 % of loan debt was held by the 14 % of students seeking graduate degrees and the College Board found that graduate students borrow an average of nearly three times more per year than undergraduates.

The Midwest receives 25 percent of all research dollars in America and graduates more computer science degrees than any other region or country on planet earth.

Immigrants older than 25 are more likely to have college degrees or graduate / professional degrees than the rest of the population at large.

But some students graduate with far more debt than that, especially those who pursue graduate degrees or professional degrees.

Today, roughly half of STEM jobs in the United States do not require a bachelor's degree, and since many of these high - skills jobs are also high - demand, CTE graduates will earn on average between $ 4,000 and $ 19,000 more a year than a person with a humanities associate degree.

Have at least $ 10,000 in loans to refinance, and no more than $ 90,000 for bachelor's degrees, $ 225,000 for graduate and doctoral degrees, and $ 300,000 for professional degrees, including law, dentistry, and medicine

And, rather than refocusing on associates degrees and certification programs, it has doubled down on its full undergraduate offerings and graduate degrees.

He is a prominent figure in the world of self - driving vehicles, having worked on the technology for more than a decade and achieving some degree of renown as a graduate student at the University of California, Berkeley, in 2004, when he designed a self - driving motorcycle that was entered in the Pentagon's first contest for autonomous vehicles.

The population of Madien NC is 3,282 81 % are listed as «white» race and their education stats are: Less than 9th grade 10 % 9th to 12th grade, no diploma 19 % High school graduate 34 % Some college, no degree 21 % Associate's degree 6 % Bachelor's degree 8 % Graduate degree 2 % The cure for ignorance is edgraduate 34 % Some college, no degree 21 % Associate's degree 6 % Bachelor's degree 8 % Graduate degree 2 % The cure for ignorance is edGraduate degree 2 % The cure for ignorance is education.

Ed Pawson, chair of NATRE and head of RE at The King's School in Devon, added: «It is great news that teacher training bursaries for prospective secondary RE teachers have been brought back, although we are puzzled as to why the figure for RE graduates is less than 50 % of that offered to Geography or D&T graduates earning a 2:1 degree.

Consider this... a person goes to college, gets a four year degree in archaeology (or some antiquities preservation analog); spends summers sifting through sand and rock and gravel, all the while taking graduate level classes... person eventually obtains the vaunted PhD in archaeology... then works his / her tail off seeking funding for an archeological excavation, with the payoff being more funding, and more opportunities to dig in the dirt... do you think professional archaeologists are looking hard for evidence of the Exodus on a speculative basis... not a chance... they know their PhD buys them nothing more than a job at Tel Aviv Walmart if they don't discover and publish... so they write grants for digs near established sites / communities, and stay employed sifting rock in culturally safe areas... not unless some shepard stumbles upon a rare find in an unexpected place do you get archeological interest and action in remote places... not at all surprising that the pottery and other evidence of the Exodus and other biblical events lie waiting to be discovered... doesn't mean not there... just not found yet...

Data from the Education Department's Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System tells us now that fewer than 12 percent of students earning bachelor's degrees are graduating from humanities programs.

Only 73 % of county residents graduated from high school, and only 8 % have a college degree, one - third the Tennessee state average and less than one - third the U.S. average of 31 %

If you don't think that's true, listen to what Kasia Sullivan, a Williams lacrosse and field hockey player, has to say about her collegiate experience: «I'll graduate with a Williams degree, and you can't do much better than that.»

i studied printed textiles at college in South Africa, did an art & design foundation course in Grimsby, and eventually graduated from Nottingham Trent University with a degree in textile design (specialising in embroidery), but i rediscovered the enthusiasm and passion for drawing & stitching i'd had since childhood through craft, rather than commercial design.

Despite the weak labor market, graduates still have better chances of finding good jobs than do their peers without degrees.

The University's annual graduation ceremony took place at Wembley Stadium and the honorary degree recipients were joined by more than 1600 graduates.

PLATTSBURGH More than 300 graduate and undergraduate students received their bachelor's and master's degrees during the college's winter commencement exercises held Dec. 16 in the SUNY Plattsburgh Field House.

(2) Team: A group of no more than five (5) individuals who are all at least 18 years old, and, at the time of entry, are all enrolled full - or part - time at an accredited, degree - granting institution of higher education seeking an undergraduate (two - or four - year) or graduate degree.

According to the Department of Veterans Affairs, more than 270,000 of the 1.65 million veterans of U.S. armed conflicts since 11 September 2001 have claimed education benefits for degree programs, including more than 13,000 graduate students.

Almost 6000 students are now pursuing PSM degrees at more than 130 institutions, said Debra Stewart, who is president of the Council of Graduate Schools (CGS).

Graduate students have similar constraints, in that «they are here to get a degree and we don't want them spending more time working on a company than getting their degree,» Livingstone explains.

«He was never wasting any more time than was required, so when I walked in, he just told me, «There is an opportunity to go to the United States to do graduate work, get a doctoral degree.

Although many more students of color are pursuing graduate degrees in science and technology than 30 years ago, the stereotype that minorities aren't successful in these fields remains, according to LaMont Toliver, director of the Meyerhoff Scholars Program at the University of Maryland - Baltimore County (UMBC).

Between 2002 and 2006, the number of female Ph.D. graduates increased faster than the number of male Ph.D. graduates — but in 2006, the number of women earning those degrees stopped growing and the number of men earning degrees started to decline.

This means that for every 10 students who enter the College of Natural Sciences and participate in FRI, two will graduate who would have otherwise dropped out or taken longer than six years to get an undergraduate degree, and almost three more students will wind up with a STEM degree, as opposed to changing majors, because they participated in FRI..

When Jankowski tries to woo high - tech companies to the Texas city, data from Question No. 12 allow him to brag that the metropolitan area has a higher concentration of graduates with degrees in science and engineering than the country as a whole.

An extensive case study revealed that graduation rates from science have nearly tripled since PRISM's inception, that the number of students pursuing graduate degrees has grown nearly ten fold, and that students receive author credit on journal articles more often than at other institutions.

I was well prepared for graduate study in bioengineering at the University of California, San Diego, by the historically black colleges and universities in the Atlanta University Center (AUC, consisting of Clark Atlanta University, Spelman, Morehouse, and Morris Brown Colleges), as well as by Georgia Tech, an institution that graduates more minority engineers than most other engineering schools because of its participation in the dual - degree engineering program, a partnership with minority - serving institutions.

A growing number of research institutes / centers and biotech companies are popping up across the country, and more Irish students are obtaining graduate degrees than ever before.

Despite these hierarchies, some degree of «decentralization» could be found in more than half of the projects, as measured by the ability of graduate students to make changes of their own to research protocols.

The situation was different for master's and first - degree graduates with good grades, who saw their full - time employment rates fall by more than 3.3 %.

Other universities have eyed its enviable 20 - year record — more than 900 graduates who have gone on to earn 423 advanced science degrees and 107 medical degrees — and wondered what it would take to replicate that success on their campuses.