Furthering your education is the single most important step you can take toward a more financially and personally rewarding future. Students who complete Associate degrees are more likely to move into higher status management and professional positions with higher earnings.

• College graduates are more satisfied with their jobs and themselves, are more creative, and less likely to start over in a career than their counterparts with only a high school diploma.
• 75% of all jobs now require education beyond the high school level.
• Associate degree graduates earn 55% more than those with just a high school diploma
• Associate degree graduates earn 31% more than those with some college but no degree. Simply stated, "What you earn depends on what you learn!

Community colleges are centers of educational opportunity. They are an American invention that put publicly funded higher education at close-to-home facilities, beginning nearly 100 years ago with Joliet Junior College. Since then, they have been inclusive institutions that welcome all who desire to learn, regardless of wealth, heritage, or previous academic experience.

Many well-known individuals have graduated from community colleges across America including

• Tom Hanks, Oscar-winning actor
• Air Force Lt. Colonel Eileen Collins, First woman to pilot a space shuttle
• Arnold Schwartzenegger, California's Governor
• Nolan Ryan, baseball's all-time strike-out king
• H. Ross Perot - Corporate executive and 1992 Presidential Candidate
• Calvin Klein - Fashion Designer
• Fred Haise - Apollo 13 Astronaut
• Jackie Robinson - First African-American to play professional baseball
• Melvin Salveson - Creator of MasterCard
• Walt Disney - Founder of Disney World and Disneyland
• Billy Crystal - Actor and comedian
• Natalie Merchant - Recording Artist
• Queen Latifah - Recording Artist /Actress
• Francine Neff - Former U.S. Treasurer
• Clint Eastwood - Actor and Oscar-winning director
• John Walsh - "America's Most Wanted" host
• Brian Williams - NBC Broadcast news anchor
• George Lucas, film director, writer, producer
• Rita Mae Brown, novelist, screenwriter, playwright
• Richard Carmona, M.D., US Surgeon General
• Robert Lawless, Chairman, President and CEO McCormick & Company, Inc.
• Brian Valentine, Senior Vice President, Windows Division, Microsoft Corporation
• George Miller, US House of Representatives
• numerous members of Congress, several astronauts, CEOs of Fortune 500 companies, and thousands of other notable students.

Why Delaware Tech?

• Four campuses conveniently located throughout Delaware: Georgetown, Dover, Stanton, Wilmington.
  
• Over 100 associate degree, certificate and diploma programs.
  
• Programs are developed to meet the specific needs of local business and industry. Delaware Tech graduates are career ready. They are highly skilled and sought after employees.
  
• Delaware Tech is the best educational buy in Delaware! An extensive array of scholarships and financial aid programs are available to those who qualify.
  
• Qualified faculty and up-to-date facilities and equipment help prepare students for the ever-changing, competitive workplace.
  
• Over 39 articulation agreements allowing Delaware Tech students who graduate with an associate degree from a designated program to continue their educational pursuit of a bachelor's degree with a participating four-year institution.
  
• Distance education options provide increased convenience and flexibility for students with busy schedules. These options include online courses, distributed learning courses, telecourses, video courses, and CD ROM courses.
  
• Flexible, convenient, caring atmosphere, personalized attention.
  
  

Delaware Tech offers a wide variety of relevant, high quality programs in a friendly and nurturing environment. Innovative instruction is provided conveniently and affordably to meet the varied educational needs of motivated, focused, career-oriented people seeking pathways for success.