We know about Bachelor Degrees, Masters Degrees and Doctorate Degrees but the Community Colleges have their 2 year degrees. Do you know the difference?

Community colleges offer both the associate in applied science degree (A.A.S.) and the associate in arts (A.A.) or associate in science (A.S.) degree.

• The A.A.S. degree is a two-year vocational degree, preparing your student for a career such as nursing or other healthcare, business, criminal justice, fashion, design and graphic arts, information technology, or paralegal work.
• The A.A. and A.S. degrees, on the other hand, provide your student with basic, lower-division liberal arts coursework that parallels that at a four-year college and prepares the student for transfer to that sort of institution. Be sure your student picks their track appropriately. Once they start on an A.S. or an A.A., it's very, very difficult to shift to an A.A.S. (and vice versa).

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