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Jacquelyn Smith’s Forbes article titled “12 Tips for Professionals Who Want to Go Back to School” gives several reasons why the time is ripe for professionals to consider going back to school. They include
- Employers are demanding an increasing range of skills
- Employees know that earning a graduate degree or certificate will help them achieve their career goals including
- Bolstering their range of marketable skills and credentials
- Giving them a competitive edge (both at their current employer and in the overall job market)
- Making more money
- Advancing in their current occupation or starting in a different one
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As per Jacquelyn’s article
“According to the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), 33% of the 18 million undergraduate students in the US are over the age of 25, and 22% are over the age of 30. From 2010 to 2020, the NCES projects a rise of 20% in enrollments of students 25 and over. “Professionals are continually viewing higher credentialing as important for advancement,” says Howard E. Horton, president of the New England College of Business and Finance. “While the decision to go back to school is, of course, a personal one – the trend line is clearly demonstrating that this is the choice more and more professionals are making.”
In addition to better positioning them for success, education also helps professionals earn more and avoid unemployment, Horton says. For example, in 2012 the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that only 3.5% of graduate degree holders were unemployed, versus 6.2% of associate degree holders, and 8.3% of those with just a high school diploma. With a professional or doctoral degree, the unemployment rate dropped to around 2.1%.
Laura Vanderkam, author of What the Most Successful People Do at Work (Portfolio, 2013) and All The Money In The World (Portfolio, 2012), agrees that people generally decide to go back to school because they “hope additional education will help them achieve their career goals, like making more money, advancing in their current occupation, or starting in a different one.”
Nancy Collamer, a career coach and author of Second-Act Careers: 50+ Ways to Profit From Your Passions During Semi-Retirement also agrees with this trend and states “most (go back to school) to bolster their range of marketable skills and credentials, which, in turn, makes them more competitive–both at their current employer and in the overall job market.”
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