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arl Smith is Houston Community get started in business Some of these programs lead directly to
College’s chair for banking, finance, and There are many ways to get started in the jobs, but keep in mind that most professions
law. He has a problem with students business world, and not all require a college require four-year degrees. In accountancy,
who want to pursue careers in Finance; he degree. Smith’s college, for instance, offers a for instance, “we offer the 10 classes the
can’t find enough of them. training course for bank tellers that requires State Board of Public Accountancy requires
“I have banks coming to me saying, ‘I seven weeks of classroom instruction, for people to sit for the certified public
need employees!’” Smith says. “I can’t fill followed by a paid internship at an area accountant exam, but the person must have
their positions fast enough. All these banks bank. “If I had 100 teller graduates, I could already gotten a bachelor’s degree,” says Joe
are being built, and there’s no one to staff place them tomorrow,” Smith says. Cahill, chair of the business department at
them. It’s just insane.” Although teller salaries generally are low, Tomball College.
Now is a great time to embark on a it’s a good way to begin a career in Finance.
Finance career. Postsecondary education, “If employees start as a teller and work their 2+2 Programs
ranging from short on-the-job-training way up, in five years, if they’re not a branch Many two-year programs at community
to graduate studies at a university, can manager, they’re doing something wrong— colleges feed directly into a four-year
put students on the right path to and that position starts at about $50,000 a program at a university, through course
rewarding futures. year,” he says. transfers or 2 + 2 agreements. These
agreements are money-savers, since
Classes in the Community community colleges generally have much
Community colleges throughout the state lower tuition rates than universities. Since
offer two-year programs in a wide variety of the state has more community colleges than
business disciplines. Community colleges universities, a 2+2 option may allow students
in the Dallas/Fort Worth area, for instance, to live at home their first two years.
offer certificates and associate’s degrees In some cases, these agreements
in accounting, management, business even allow a student to earn a four-
administration, international business year university degree at a community
and trade, and real estate and property college. If students live in San Antonio, for
management. example, they can earn a bachelor’s degree
sam HousTon sTaTe unIversITY
offers THe sTaTe’s onlY execuTIve masTer’s degree of busIness
admInIsTraTIon In bankIng and fInancIal InsTITuTIons.
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