Julia Kagan is a financial/consumer journalist and former senior editor, personal finance, of Investopedia. Katie Miller is a consumer financial services expert. She worked for almost two decades as ...

Were you aware that around 62% of Americans 25 and older don't have a college degree? In today's world, career success doesn't always require a college degree. Many high-paying jobs offer lucrative ...

The number of associate degrees and vocational certificates awarded by postsecondary institutions has reached almost 1.5 million, according to a new report from the National Center for Education ...

Online degrees provide a flexible route to career advancement — and easy online degrees can boost your salary and lead to exciting new opportunities. What makes a degree easy? It's more than the ...

In its earliest days and for a long period of time after, firefighting and the fire service, in general, were viewed simply as a trade. Firefighters joined a fire department and typically received ...

Maggie Bowen said she got both two-year and four-year degrees, but since those grueling hours of hitting the books, she's learned that her vocational degree is worth more in the long run. "I wish I ...

Given the high costs and varying (and sometimes uncertain) ROI of traditional four-year degrees, many people are looking at alternative education and career paths that offer promising returns without ...