Normally abuzz with activity this time of year, college and university career placement offices are subdued places these days.
That’s because on-campus recruiters, represented largely by finance and engineering firms, are in shorter supply this season. With few openings available even for experienced applicants, most companies aren’t spending time and money to woo first-time job-seekers this [...]
Licensed optometrists must earn a Doctor of Optometry degree from an accredited optometry school and pass a written and a clinical State board examination.
Admission to optometry school is competitive.
Optometrists usually remain in practice until they retire, so relatively few job openings arise from the need to replace those who leave the occupation.
Optometrists, also known as [...]
Are you a college student interested in a well paid entry level job that can lead into a productive career? Do you have a great deal of patience and empathy for those who are experiencing disabilities? Can you communicate effectively with others, both by listening and making yourself clearly understood? If so, then the field [...]
If you are like every other college student out there, you need to pay for college somehow. Many students look into getting government grants or taking out loans from friends and family. These can be extremely effective means of financing an education and these options should be looked at. However, a student loan may be [...]
Having a degree in law enforcement means that you have a degree in criminal justice with a focus in law enforcement. Many people choose to have a criminal justice degree with a specified major or field to enhance and/or have a more in-depth education.
A Criminal Justice Degree
A criminal justice degree provides you with coursework that [...]
Ever wonder what the payoff for your college education will be? Well, according to conventional wisdom, the payoff depends on your major. Liberal arts graduates are often stereotyped as being condemned to work in low-paid positions, while business majors are expected to succeed. And, unfortunately for you Sanskrit majors, there appears to be some truth [...]
If you’ve recently been laid off, you’ve probably had someone tap you on the shoulder and tell you something like: “Out of crisis comes opportunity,” or “When one door closes, another opens.” It probably feels a little pat, but the truth is that many workers will use the downturn to switch out of a slow-growth [...]
The field of psychoanalysis has gotten the Hollywood treatment over the past decade, being featured on a hit TV show, The Sopranos, and two movies starring Billy Crystal and Robert De Niro, Analyze This and Analyze That.
In the same period, the number of college students earning psychology degrees has jumped 22%; the [...]
What’s worse than being 12 years out of high school and on your way to having $40,000 in debt?
Being 30 years old, with no college degree, making $15 an hour.
That’s why Jesse Mullan has taken a risk and gone back to college, sitting in classrooms with college juniors who were 8 years old when he [...]
Military service offers many ways to earn money for education. Check out a few of the options below.
Loan repayment
The military may help you repay your student loans if you attend schools on an approved Perkins, Stafford or other Department of Education-guaranteed student loan.
Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC)
In ROTC, you can get up to a full [...]
