Degrees In Health Care

The cost of college goes beyond tuition: housing, commuting expenses, living expenses. The last thing a college student wants to face is the exaggerated price tags on textbooks. Worldwide, students face excruciating class material costs with very little hope for recycled, used material as publishers release new editions every two years.

Open textbooks is one solution to the problem. Textbook prices have outpaced inflation 2-to-1 in the past two decades, says a 2005 report by the Government Accountability Office. They account for 26% of tuition and fees at four-year public universities and nearly three-quarters of costs at community colleges. Open textbooks allow professors to take creative commons information and offer it to their students for free, or for a low price of $10 to $20 for a printed copy. This is something the non-profit student advocacy network has been pushing for since 2003. Sometimes it gets more customized than open textbooks though. Different schools have tried to tackle this epidemic in interesting ways. Here’s a few interesting stories about the future of the textbook world.

In the U.S. Department of Labor and Statistics’ November 2007 assessment of the job market, they compiled a list of the “Fastest growing occupations” in today’s job market. These occupations are expected to receive steady growth until 2016.

American Sentinel University is a military-friendly college that offers quality, accredited online education. Their healthcare program is reputable in the industry, providing the following two bachelor’s degrees in broad-scope fields: Health Systems Management Nursing They also have the following master’s degree options available for healthcare: MBA in Healthcare Nursing Nursing Management and Organizational Leadership Case [...]