Career Studies Submission 9

Career Studies Submission 9.1

Name: _____________________________________

Exercise 1: Investigating Post-secondary Education Options

In this exercise you will practice identifying goals for post-secondary education related to various careers you have an interest in. You will also practice identifying desirable criteria for a post-secondary institution.

By now you have had some practice investigating the Occupational Outlook Handbook online at the U.S. Department of Labor website. You have identified various careers that interest you and read the information provided regarding various aspects of the occupation.

1) Return now to the Occupational Outlook Handbook website <www.bls.gov/oco/home.htm> and locate an occupation which interests you. Navigate to the section titled, "Training, Other Qualifications, and Advancement." Read the section and determine the type of post-secondary education required for the occupation.

2) Consider the various characteristics of post-secondary institutions. List the characteristics which appeal the most to you in your notebook:

· small student population or large student population

· close to home or far away

· public institution or private institution

· religious affiliation or secular institution

· military

· liberal arts

· scientific

· research-based

· single-gender or co-educational

· historically ethnic

· selective or open admission

· less than two-year, two-year, four-year, graduate

3) Once you have considered the desirable qualities in a post-secondary institution, go to the following website operated by the U.S. Department of Education: <http://www.nces.ed.gov/ipeds/cool/>.

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4) Identify four post-secondary institutions that offer the type of education needed for your desired occupation. On the IPEDS College Opportunities On-line website you will see several dialog boxes. Each box allows you to identify a desirable characteristic for a post-secondary institution according to geographic location, type of institution, instructional program, and number of students enrolled. The more characteristics you enter, the narrower your search becomes, and fewer results will emerge. Too few characteristics will result in a list so long, it will be difficult to sort through the listed institutions.

You may be able to identify one or two specific institutions which meet your exact criteria. You may wish to widen your search by modifying the geographic location or the size of the institution. The most important thing is that the institution offers the program you are interested in.

Once you obtain a list of institutions, the listed schools appear as links. Click on a link, and it will take you to a page with more detailed information about the institution. The page will contain information on the types of degrees offered, application fees, and tuition costs, as well as a link to the website of the actual school.

Four Post-Secondary Schools that I am interested in.

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1) List the names of the four institutions that match your search criteria and appear interesting to you. Record the following information about each institution in your notebook:

· Name of institution________________________________

· Web site of institution______________________________

· Type of institution_________________________________

· Location (country, state, city)_________________________________________

· In-state and out-of-state tuition & fees__________________________________

· Cost of books and supplies___________________________________________

· Total cost of living on-campus (room and board plus other expenses)_________________________________________________________

· Total cost of living off-campus (room and board plus other expenses)

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2) List the names of the four institutions that match your search criteria and appear interesting to you. Record the following information about each institution in your notebook:

· Name of institution________________________________

· Web site of institution______________________________

· Type of institution_________________________________

· Location (country, state, city)_________________________________________

· In-state and out-of-state tuition & fees__________________________________

· Cost of books and supplies___________________________________________

· Total cost of living on-campus (room and board plus other expenses)_________________________________________________________

· Total cost of living off-campus (room and board plus other expenses)

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3) List the names of the four institutions that match your search criteria and appear interesting to you. Record the following information about each institution in your notebook:

· Name of institution________________________________

· Web site of institution______________________________

· Type of institution_________________________________

· Location (country, state, city)_________________________________________

· In-state and out-of-state tuition & fees__________________________________

· Cost of books and supplies___________________________________________

· Total cost of living on-campus (room and board plus other expenses)_________________________________________________________

· Total cost of living off-campus (room and board plus other expenses)

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4) List the names of the four institutions that match your search criteria and appear interesting to you. Record the following information about each institution in your notebook:

· Name of institution________________________________

· Web site of institution______________________________

· Type of institution_________________________________

· Location (country, state, city)_________________________________________

· In-state and out-of-state tuition & fees__________________________________

· Cost of books and supplies___________________________________________

· Total cost of living on-campus (room and board plus other expenses)_________________________________________________________

· Total cost of living off-campus (room and board plus other expenses)

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Exercise 2: Calculating the Cost of College

Show your work

1) Tuition at Carleton College, a four-year liberal arts college in Minnesota, is $30,666 per year. How much would it cost in tuition to earn a bachelor's degree from Carleton?

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2) Montana State University is a public four-year university in Bozeman, Montana. For a resident of Montana, one year of enrollment costs:

· $4,577 for tuition

· $5,500 for room and board

· $930 for books and supplies

· $2,470 for personal and miscellaneous expenses

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If these fees do not change, what would be the total cost of attending Montana State for four years?

3) DeVry University is a system of for-profit vocational colleges. A degree in electronics engineering technology from DeVry's campus in Morrisville, North Carolina, costs $5,895 per term of enrollment. If nine terms of enrollment are required to earn an electronics engineering technology degree, what would be the total cost of earning this degree?

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4) Tuition at Foothill College, a community college in California, is $17 per unit (credit hour). How much would it cost to attend Foothill for two years, taking 30 credits each year?

5) Suppose you spent two years at Foothill College, taking 30 units per year, and then transferred and spent the next two years at the University of California at Berkeley, which costs $7,422.90 per year. What would be the total cost of your four years of college education? How much would you save in tuition by going to Foothill for two years and then transferring to Berkeley rather than attending Berkeley for all four years?

6) Look back at the list of post-secondary institutions you identified in Exercise 1. Select two and calculate the cost of living on campus for four years.

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Finally, what in your mind are the costs and the benefits of you pursuing a post secondary education? Please write your thoughts in a paragraph that has a total of 7-9 sentences.

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