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Furthering your education is the single most important step you can take toward a more financially and personally rewarding future. Students who complete Associate in Arts 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.

 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!



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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

 George Lucas, film director, writer, producer

 Tom Arnold, writer, actor, comedian

 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

 Arnold Schwartzenegger, California's Governor

 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."

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