Those on limited incomes, with domestic duties (children, a sick parent or spouse), or a full-time job, struggle to get a four-year degree.
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That month, another restriction will kick in for part-time students: First-time borrowers pursuing a bachelor's degree won't be able to sign up for the subsidized loans for more than six years.
For example, recently the air conditioning went out in 100-degree heat and Shannon had no time to take care of it.
And thanks to Intel, he was able to pay for his degree and keep his full-time job.
The median salary figures are only for full-time employees and exclude anyone that went on to receive a graduate degree.
By developing low-cost distance education programs new companies have found new markets, especially among working adults who want to get a degree without giving up their full-time jobs.
Many game designers are scientists or mathematicians who accepted the long hours and relatively low pay of entry-level jobs in game development in exchange for the opportunity to work full-time in the arena where they spent much of their degree.
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Another 15% were said to be in full-time, long-term jobs in which a law degree is preferred but not required.
But instead Kevorkian administered the fatal "death potion" to Youk himself, inviting prosecutors to charge him with first-degree murder for the first time.
To some degree, the time people were using to play first-person shooters on consoles has been sucked up by people playing Words With Friends or Temple Run 2 on their mobile phones.
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In the fall Arora quit working on a graduate degree in computer science to work on Cantaloupe full-time.
"We are seeing greater numbers securing permanent jobs across a variety of sectors, but progress is slow and employment figures are masked, to some degree, by the high numbers employed in part-time roles, " she said.
Also, for most areas of study, an associate degree puts you halfway toward a four-year degree should you decide to pursue one at a later time.
Between working overnight shifts and caring for her 3-year-old daughter, Ms. Calvert said she has little time to move beyond her associate degree but knows that it increasingly is important to her employer, which she said offers a pay raise to nurses with higher degrees.
But when it's time to pitch multinationals looking for economies of scale and help in global brand-building, Sorrell does a 180-degree turn and demands his independent firms come in for the kiss.
But the four-year Scottish honours degree is likely to remain the norm - if only because there isn't enough time for more radical reform.
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