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I was so grateful that we started looking into college options years prior to my daughters’ high school graduations! As we began our search for answers to questions we knew we had, those answers seemed to almost always lead to more questions!

Online Associate Degrees certainly seemed appealing. They were short term, convenient, highly regarded academically as well as professionally and, in most cases, more cost effective as compared to attending classes on campus. It wasn’t until we discovered the Bachelor Degree programs online that we began to understand the differences between the 2 degrees and the overall effect these differences would have on future career goals.

A Bachelor Degree typically requires 4 years or more of full time study. The idea of spending more than two years furthering their education was an idea that my daughters were not fond of. Although at this point they did understand the importance of obtaining more than a high school education, it was also our consolidated opinion that they could enter the work force and earn an a good salary with an Associate Degree.

The biggest difference we found between those who were currently working with an Associate Degree and those who were working with a Bachelors Degree was related to salary. U.S. Census Bureau statistics showed us that those with a Bachelor Degree were earning more on average than those with an Associate Degree, in addition to the benefits of the additional education and the knowledge that went along with it. However, because obtaining an online college degree at any point in their lives was an option, we initially considered a Bachelors Degree something that could obtained at any point later on in their lives if they so chose, unless they were already definitive about a career choice that required a Bachelor Degree.

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