The IT education wave has hit community and junior colleges. Computer and information sciences are among the top 10 associate's degrees conferred in the United States. There are more than 1,100 community colleges in the United States. On this topic Newsletters IT Career Advisor. Some two-year institutions allow continuing education enrollment to individuals not holding a high school degree or equivalent.
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Many students come back for an associate's after obtaining their four-year degrees because they are not marketable without a technical associate's degree. Results obtained at the DegreeSearch site are limited to that site's content. 2000 InfoWorld Compensation Survey, Community Loretta W. Prencipe is a senior editor for features at InfoWorld. As increasingly powerful processing capabilities are embedded into ever- smaller devices, the computing landscape is shifting toward physically smaller gadgets. Explore the issues involved in using Java to program these emergent devices.