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A Career Lesson in Distance Education

August 22nd, 2007 Subscribe To Our Feed

Online Education As you probably already know, distance education can make a college degree a reality for many people who are not in a position to attend a more traditional college setting. A lesson on distance education that you can count on is that through online courses you can earn a college degree and improve your standard of living for you and family.

If you are one of those individuals that, because of time, work or personal comitments, cannot attend a traditional university, don’t give up hope for a better future and career. An online degree program is tailor made for you.

And if you have any doubts about the benefits of achieving an online bachelors degree, listen to these statistics reported by the US Department of Labor: In today’s dollars, a bachelors degree is, on average, worth more than $2.1 million to you over a 40 year period (an average career).

Another lesson to be learned can be found in these statistics: Over the past 10 years, jobs for individuals with a bachelor’s degree have grown by 1.8 million. Over the same period, those people without a college degree (high school diploma only) have seen jobs decrease by nearly 700,000. If you think that you can advance your career and standard of living without a college degree, the numbers indicate that it will be a very difficult task. The odds are working against you!

If there is any lesson on distance education to be learned here, it is that online classes can provide you the opportunity to have a better life, a better career, and a better future. This single decision on obtaining an online degree can be the difference between scrounging for a living in a job that you can barely stand and living a financially-secure, rewarding life. So, which will you choose?