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4-year colleges and universities offer 4-year baccalaureate
degrees and sometimes opportunities to pursue Masters and
Doctorate degrees.
Many employers require at least a bachelor degree for higher
paying jobs. At least in part, that is because they want
well-rounded, socialized, generally knowledgeable employees
who have proven they can learn, communicate, persevere and
succeed.
That said, many baccalaureate graduates attend community
colleges after graduation, because they find they have no
marketable skills. A bachelor degree is no guarantee of a job,
and some 4-year schools are criticized as theoretical to the
point of being impractical.
ICT fields have excellent employment prospects, for community
college and 4-year college and university graduates. An ideal
ICT employment prospect is a student with a good balance of
broad general education, science and theory behind ICT,
applications of ICT and real world experiences utilizing ICT.
Deep understanding of science, theory, technology, mathematics
and/or engineering creates candidates for research and
development scientists who advance ICT fields, usually with
advanced (Masters and/or Doctoral) degrees. Combinations of
ICT technical knowledge together with business, scientific or
industry-specific knowledge are valuable in employment
marketplaces.
Following are links to information on ICT related programs at
public 4-year colleges and universities in the MPICT region.
Don’t rule out any of these out-of-state schools without
checking if they participate in the
Western
Undergraduate Exchange (WUE) Program, a consortium
offering discounted tuition to residents of participating
western states.
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