Types of College Degrees
Your college journey is also a personal one. What’s right for someone else, even someone with similar career goals, may not be right for you.
在决定你想获得哪种大学学位时，问问自己，我想要什么样的学习旅程？是从这里到那里最便宜、最快捷的方式，还是能够提供小组学习、持久友谊以及个人和智力成长的旅程？
There are two types of undergraduate degrees and two types of graduate degrees.
| 学士学位 | 学士后文凭 | 其它 |
|---|---|---|
| 律师 | 硕士 | 双学位 |
| 本科 | Doctorate/PhD | Accelerated degree |
An Associate Degree is… Choosing College, career researchers Michael B. Horn and Bob Moesta encourage students to put themselves in the driver’s seat when it comes to forging their personal college pathway. To use the authors’ analogy, it’s like you’re hiring the college to get yourself something important.
In an age of technological change and business disruptors, COVID-19 ushered in more changes, including changes to teaching and learning. Not only did the explosion of remote communication tools impact how young people learn and how some new degree programs are structured, it also impacted how people think about preparing for jobs.
COVID-19 accelerated the adoption of remote learning, and today many colleges offer remote or hybrid learning options that provide flexibility that can be especially helpful for students who want to hold down a job while earning a college degree.
远程学习方案还可以帮助降低获得学位所需的成本，减少差旅和生活费用，或许还能降低学费。
The world of workforce learning is also changing. Traditional linkages between college degrees and good jobs are being impacted by new, individualized and flexible approaches to job training. Researchers with EdSurge tell us that 4-year degrees remain the “gold standard” for getting good jobs, but there’s growing demand for reskilling that relies on online courses, microcredentials, or vocational certifications.
As young entrepreneurs create open-learning platforms for lifelong learning (think 2U, Udemy, and Coursera, for example), and technology giants (think Google and Microsoft) seek to influence workforce training by offering online “badges” and “certificates” in ways that support and promote their technologies, there’s significant potential for disruption to traditional college degree pathways.
College decision making can sometimes feel overwhelming, but whatever you study in college today and whatever degree you get now, you’ll probably need to learn new skills in the future, possibly for jobs or careers you never imagined would exist!
掌握主动权，在当地职业中心了解各种职业，与经验丰富且富有同情心的学术顾问交流，并勇于寻找能够提供你想要的学习和个人体验的学位课程——这些都是积极的步骤，将有助于你走上获得满足感和成功的道路。
