Sentences with phrase «year colleges spent»

Families with students at the region's public four - year colleges spent 21 percent, the same as the national average.

Students at public four - year colleges spend about $ 1,225 a year on textbooks.

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Even if you spent your latter years of college grooming your network and making good business connections, you can't expect your first freelancing jobs to come to you.

If you want to commemorate the years they've spent in college, or, if they're going far from home for a job opportunity — frame a nice picture of their loved ones.

After graduating from Dartmouth College in 2009, Grace spent a year in Youngstown, Ohio as a business reporter for The Vindicator before joining Business Insider in January 2011.

And who knows how many people would have become more ill, or even died, had Riley waited until he was done with college, or grad school or spent years in the workforce before pursuing his goal?

So how did these folks who spent their college years reading Chaucer or Plato end up becoming exceptional programmers?

The irony of spending years in high school and college before getting a job is that what employers want most isn't any specific (or even highly specialized) body of knowledge; they want employees who can learn on the job.

The budget also proposes to spend $ 80 million on a new three - year Industrial Research Assistance Program that will help colleges partner with small and medium enterprises on projects that relate to new information and communication technologies.

According to data collected by USAToday.com, the schools with that make the most money in college sports spent an average of just $ 12.0 million (10.2 %) on scholarships last year.

You may be able to send your kids to a great college, but if they've never spent an afternoon with you in 18 years, is it worth it?

The son of a shoe - store owner, Charles Brannock spent his college years designing an instrument to replace the rulerlike stick that shoe salesmen used to measure feet.

College is becoming less and less a place to kick back and spend a few years «figuring things out.»

«I got my first job out of college just over a year ago, and I've spent a lot of time reading finance materials.

Families with kids in kindergarten through 12th grade will spend an average $ 634.78, versus $ 688.62 in 2012, while families of college students will spend $ 836.83, down from $ 907.22 last year.

Starting in the mid-1980s, researchers from University College London spent twenty years examining the relationship between sleep patterns and life expectancy in more than 10,000 British civil servants.

Enormous wealth is what allowed Woody Johnson to spend his seven years of college drinking and pulling pranks and still emerge as a powerful, respected individual.

To put that wedding spending in perspective, the cost to attend a private four - year college averaged $ 45,365 for the 2016 - 17 academic year, including tuition, fees and room and board, according to data from The Collegecollege averaged $ 45,365 for the 2016 - 17 academic year, including tuition, fees and room and board, according to data from The CollegeCollege Board.

So, if you figure you're going to need $ 50,000 to pay for her first year of college in 2008, then you'd need to spend about $ 19,050 today to buy a bond to cover that.

In the middle of my sophomore year of college, I had a life - altering epiphany: I had spent the majority of my life thus far pursuing a career as a performer.

After graduating from Middlebury College with a major in geography in 2003, he spent a couple of years working for the Conservation Fund, a nonprofit that helps fund land and water conservation projects.

I grew up on a farm in Cornwell, Conn. and after majoring in environmental science in college, I spent several years leading high school students on expeditions into the woods to teach them about the environment.

This fall, 24 college students will leave their dorms and textbooks behind to spend the next two years working on their own start - ups.

The state expects to spend $ 10 million a year in scholarships, which will be awarded to anyone who doesn't hold a college degree or certificate.

But, in the UK, this isn't as much of a thing, said Tarn Rodgers Johns, a London writer and social media manager who spent a year of college in Colorado.

I would disagree with the sentiment that «Few people would not run a cost / benefit analysis of college or graduate school before spending years of their lives and tens of thousands of dollars.»

-LSB-...] someone who has spent 16 years after college building my net worth to the point of achieving financial freedom, the last thing I want to do is lose any significant amount of money.

Ms. Gouw and Ms. Fonstad — who met 25 years ago at Bain and Company, their first job out of college, and have spent two decades in the venture capital industry — said they wanted to return to hands - on investing in companies when they are just starting and as they mature.

It's a real word, and The Center for Retirement Research at Boston College uses it for a novel approach to figuring out how much of one's savings can be spent each year in retirement.

With the back - to - college spend estimated to reach $ 6.6 billion this year, competition among retailers is already heating up like nothing I recall in recent memory.

I am going to go to college for 8 years spend 200 grand on student loans so one day I can buy a new honda civic... Said no doctor ever.

Sam loved investing so much that he decided to make a career out of investing by spending the next 13 years after college on Wall Street.

Analysis from the Employee Benefit Research Institute (ERBI), Boston College Center for Retirement Research and others suggests that a 65 year old couple will spend around $ 250,000 on healthcare alone in retirement.

Realizing ever more clearly how glad I am I dropped out of college and spent the last few years working and developing my life instead of drinking, partying, and jumping through hoops.

Sam loved investing so much that he decided to make a career out of investing by spending the next 13 years after college working at two of the leading financial service firms in the world.

All that money flowing into colleges and universities is being funneled away from other industries where it would have been spent in future years.

Did you spend your college years doing keg stands and beer bongs?

I graduated college this year and I've spent lots of time with millenials.

He spent years obtaining a master's degree in SDA theology from one of their two accredited colleges.

If you want to get a sneak peek at what the Christian community will be talking about in 5 - 10 years, just spend some time on a Christian college campus.From evolution to religious pluralism to homosexuality, the issues that play out on the national scene often begin in classrooms, late - night dorm room discussions, and chapel services.

During my first two years of college I spent a lot of time at the Baptist Student Union on campus.

Dissatisfaction with your current circumstances, feeling obligated to continue school, lack of direction or a desire to spend a few more years after undergrad on a college campus playing Xbox until 4 a.m. every day are all dangerous reasons to consider going back to school.

I have a personal interest to declare here: I spent five years of my life, in the late fifties and early sixties, first as an undergraduate then as a postgraduate student at Trinity College, Dublin, still a firmly protestant institution.

Boston College, 1995 After spending three years tutoring at Thomas Aquinas College, Dr. Augros taught philosophy at a seminary for 11 years.

After college, I spent five years as a pastor before enrolling in a leading Christian seminary to get a four - year Master's degree in Bible and Theology.

Earlier this year I was in charge of «debriefing» a small group of evangelical college students who had spent their spring break working with various agencies serving the homeless in inner - city Washington.

«I am grateful for the past two years that I have spent as president of The King's College.

A quarter of a century ago I spent three years at Bible College, which...

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...

So, what you're saying is that I should take Dr. Dipwad's theory as the Gospel because he spent a few years in college and in a lab away from the real world.