Educational Technology

February 4, 2018

HOW AN A.A. DEGREE CAN BECOME A BETTER PATH TO LABOR MARKET SUCCESS

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by MARK SCHNEIDER AND MATTHEW SIGELMAN, American Enterprise Institute

Every year hundreds of thousands of students earn an associate of arts (A.A.) degree from community colleges in the United States. Most graduates intend to use the degree as a stepping-stone to a bachelor’s degree. As a result, most A.A. degree programs focus more on general education than developing marketable skills. Unfortunately, many A.A. students never earn a bachelor’s degree. Without this higher-level degree and without high-value, marketable skills, A.A. degree
holders experience a wage penalty compared to their peers completing career and technically oriented associate degrees and, as we show below, compared to what
employers are willing to pay better-skilled workers.

http://www.aei.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/Saving-the-Associate-of-Arts-Degree.pdf

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