In a 2006 report by a congressional advisory committee on student financial aid, only 54% of college-qualified low-income students enrolled in a four-year college and 21% in a two-year college.
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Now a freshman at the two-year College of San Mateo in San Mateo, Calif.
What's more, Sun expects to hire the two-year college graduates for approximately 20% less than it pays four-year graduates, and it should be able to train and advance them faster because of their college studies, Deagman says.
First proposed by President Barack Obama during his 2008 campaign, the AOTC is a more generous four year version of the old two-year Hope College credit for undergraduates.
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Ted Beck, chief executive officer and president of the National Endowment for Financial Education, points out that the two-year community college is another viable route where students can still possibly graduate from their dream school for much less money.
Higher education, whether it's a four-year college or two years at a community college, is the clearest path we've got to the middle class.
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Putting only 10% of America's jobless men through a two-year community-college course, say, would mean doubling expenditure on training.
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And that includes if not a four-year degree, a bachelor of arts degree, then a two-year degree from a community college or vocational training through a community college.
Next, someone with an associate of arts degree, or two-year degree, from college earns about the average salary.
Education Secretary Arne Duncan told a Senate education committee earlier this year that 27 percent of American high schoolers drop out and that 40 percent of the country's "young people" earn a two- or four-year college degree.
Venture for America is a two-year fellowship program for recent college graduates to work in a start-up or early stage company in a low-cost city.
On Wednesday, U.S. prosecutors charged two 19-year-old Kazakh college friends of the younger Mr. Tsarnaev Dias Kadyrbayev and Azamat Tazhayakov with helping hide evidence of the bombs by throwing out a backpack with fireworks inside.
When most new jobs in America require more than a high school diploma, higher education -- whether at a four-year college, at a two-year program -- it can't be a luxury.
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Living at home and starting out at a low-cost community college, then transferring to a four-year college for the final two years, will wipe away a hefty chunk of room and board costs, as well as some tuition.
The 63-year-old photographer with two children in college was downsized by the San Francisco Chronicle in 2009.
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His father, Arthur Jenkins, worked in the coal mines from the age of 12 for 24 years with a two-year break at Ruskin, an Oxford college for working people, and in 1935 became a Labour member of Parliament.
Based in Atlanta, Georgia, Bauder College offers two- and four-year degrees in fashion, business, information technology, medical assistance, interior design and, of course, criminal justice.
If money simply proves impossible, John believes that Jamie might start at a less-expensive school for a year or two, before transferring to her dream college.
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Brittney Griner, a two-time AP college basketball player of the year and the No. 1 pick in the WNBA draft, caused few ripples when she said this month she is a lesbian.
So he got a two-year agriculture business degree from Des Moines Area Community College.
The two-year old social network has found immense success among college-educated females between the ages of 25 and 34, but it has yet to turn the act of pinning into an act of participatory commerce.
While critics say the jury pool is less educated (two of the ten jurors in the Abbott case had four-year college degrees), judges there are patent experts.
Son transferred to a Berkeley high school the next year, entered a small college in 1975 and jumped two years later to the University of California, Berkeley, to study economics.
Their 16-year-old daughter, Stavroula, was only two years away from college in Greece.
With a daughter off at college, Barton and his wife earlier this year liquidated their two major assets.
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Louis Community College hasn't been practically begging her to wrap up her two-year degree.
Finkelstein said job placement advisers on college campuses are reporting a surge in interest for one- and two-year positions among students.
The two-year strategic Zipcar-Ford alliance will introduce a new generation of drivers from university and college campuses to the highly fuel-efficient Ford Focus and Escape vehicles as well as offer incentives to join and use Zipcar car sharing services on and around campus.
Ms. Berry, whose husband David was killed at Ground Zero on Sept. 11, gathered with her two younger sons in front of the television, her 18-year-old son calling in from college to share the news: Osama bin Laden was dead.
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