Military Options necessary in those days,” she says. “My advice to
The military is another option for students today is to get a degree. Today, all things
occupational training in many subjects— being equal, the person with the degree will get
math, bookkeeping, accounting, finance— the job. Our company requires at least a four-year
that can prepare trainees for employment or degree now.”
further education after military service. Students applying or transferring to four-
In addition to these great on-the-job training year universities in Texas have many choices
programs, the military also offers numerous of excellent bachelor’s degree programs in
ways to earn four-year degrees. They have credit business. Business Week magazine ranks
programs, military colleges, service academies, the University of Texas at Austin’s four-year
online classes, and the Reserve Officers business program number 9 in the country
Training Corps (ROTC), which pays students and number 3 among public colleges. The
who participate during college. cost of UT Austin’s program is less than a
quarter of tuition at the number 1 program at
the University of Pennsylvania.
Texas cpa
Four other Texas colleges—Southern
Methodist University, Texas Christian
and accounTIng organIzaTIons
University, Texas A&M, and UT-Dallas—
provIde Hundreds of THousands have four-year business programs in the top
of dollars In scHolarsHIps
50 nationwide.
To Texas sTudenTs pursuIng
Get the cRediT
MBA Programs
accounTIng degrees. Students interested in careers in management
you deserve
should look into MBA programs. These
programs, usually two years long, aim to give
four-Year degrees students all the tools—economics, finance, T
ech prep in Texas is a great way to
earn college credits toward a technical
Kathleen Cochran advanced all the way to marketing, organizational psychology— career while you’re still in high school.
vice president at Heritage Bag, a national needed to be first-rate managers. Tech prep programs center on “articulation
industrial trash bag company headquartered UT Austin’s MBA program is rated agreements,” contracts between the
in Carrollton, without a college degree of any number 20 in the country by Business student, his or her high school, and
kind. She was fortunate enough, however, to Week and, in terms of students’ personal community colleges the student would
have a mentor on her first job who taught her investment, the program pays for itself. like to attend. The agreement includes
everything about business. A Forbes magazine survey found that recommendations for courses to be
“The lack of a college degree didn’t hold 1996 graduates averaged annual raises over completed before graduation and outlines a
me back, but a college degree wasn’t five years of 14.3 percent. two-year degree or certificate program.
selected courses in a Tech prep plan
cover the same material as the equivalent
college course, allowing the student to
receive what is called advanced technical
credit toward the college degree. It’s like a
bank account. The credit is banked for you
at the college, and you withdraw it when
you enroll.
for more information on Tech prep,
visit www.techpreptexas.org. ask your
counselor about advanced placement, dual
credit, or articulated courses and other
opportunities to earn college credit.
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