DegreeGo Blog

DegreeGo will be participating in NaBloPoMo for the month of January, which means a post a day–even on weekends!–until the month’s end. We’ll be covering exciting topics like:

• The differences between online degree programs and campus degree programs
• The benefits of an online degree program in today’s economy
• The changes between an online degree program of today and one from a decade ago
• The different degree types available, from vocational training to bachelor degrees to master degrees
• College student life
• How to attend college while in the military
• How to attend college while raising a family
• How to attend college while maintaining a full time job

And more!

Technology drives the demand for the latest and greatest jobs, so it never hurts to plan your education for the job market of tomorrow. What fields are experiencing acute growth thanks to technological demands though? Everyone knows that healthcare is booming, but what other advancements are being made that should influence your educational and career choices? What specific advancements are being made in healthcare? Let DegreeGo direct your academic pursuits with the Ten Most Interesting Degrees for the Future.

Most college students know that there are degrees that pay well, and degrees that struggle to land a job that can simply cover their lingering student loans (liberal arts comes to mind.) The highest paid bachelor degrees are where all the “you could earn more money by going back to school” pitches come from, while the other degrees might as well be labeled Your Next Financial Slush Pit. Those less-than-lucrative majors have different rewards though, such as knowledge that has passed down throughout cultures for thousands of years; philosophy, literature, the fine arts. This article isn’t for the student that only seeks that enrichment; it’s for the student that would like enrichment and the ability to live in financial comfort.

You’ve probably heard it before: the higher the education you have, the more your salary delivers. When the economy takes a slump, students turn to the education industry as a means to evacuate their unemployment (or less-than-desirable income from their current job); a great thing for colleges that are struggling with the economy themselves and need the student body. It’s a win-win situation, right? And what with everyone walking around with a Bachelor’s Degree these days, the Master’s Degree is the next on the academic food chain. Master’s Degree enrollment rates are higher than ever.

But not all degrees pay out their investment. A Master of Arts in Literature, for example, isn’t going to glean much benefit unless the graduate is the next best-selling novelist; better off that a B.A. in English pursue a Master’s Degree in education. M.A.’s in the social sciences generally don’t do well either, at least not as well as the C.S.W. or, better yet, the M.B.A. When students pursue a Master’s Degree program, it should be perceived as more than the educational evacuation port from the bad economy.

DegreeGo looked at Hawai’i Pacific University‘s MA/OC (Master of Arts in Organizational Change) program last month and the benefits of creativity in business. But not all students are interested in consultation and change; some students would rather focus on the traditional side of business when returning to graduate school.

Hawai’i Pacific University is just as excellent of a choice for the MBA student as it is for the MA/OC student. The traditional MBA at HPU is enriched by the university’s strategic location in the center of the Pacific, with students from the United States, Japan, China, and other global locales. Combine this with the university’s prestigious online degree options and you have an ideal candidate for distance learning or traditional Master of Business Administration degrees.

In Texas, there’s a career school that offers pharmacy technician programs that may completed in as little as a couple of years. This is just one of many pharmacy technical institutes across the United States that delivers an exciting, rewarding educational program that lets you do the unthinkable–work with drugs!

According to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, “job opportunities are expected to be good” for the pharmacy technician. For a college student following the health care industry like myself, or for anyone with their hands even mildly wet in politics, the knee-jerk response is–”Of course it is! It’s in the health care industry, the largest growing industry in the United States thanks to national health care reform!”–but don’t be so quick to act. The pharmacy technician is the not the person you think of, handling the health affairs of individuals across the United States.

Administrative assistants are the new secret gunpowder loaded into the business hiring cannon, at least according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Administrative assistants are “expected to be among those with the largest number of new jobs,” and “perform[ing] fewer clerical tasks and are increasingly taking on the roles of information and communication managers.”

If you are looking for a professional job with a high chance of employment, a decent rate of pay, and a foundational position in a business setting, the administrative assistant is the occupation for you. Administrative assistants can start fresh out of high school, but administrative assistant programs designed to educate the 2-year student for a professional career with bolster employment chances as well as salary.