Education Answers

If you plan on going to a 4 year school when you earn your associates the degree you get is well…..a degree that is designed to transfer to a four year school and really isn’t all that specialized. usually its just called a associate of Liberal Arts. And when you finish, you will have completed all your (hopefully) general education requirements for your 4 year degree so all you will be taking at the 4 year school is what you need for your Business Admin degree.

When you get a transfer degree (usually an AS), you really don’t take any classes in anything except your gen ed requirements. You know, the Freshman Comp 1 and 2 classes, your History, Government, Speech, College Algebra, Science classes and all the classes you’ll need to be a more “well rounded and educated person”. You don’t take many, if any, classes related to your major. That is what the 4 year school is for.

Don’t get confused and end up doing one of those AAS degrees at a community college. They may appear more appealing because you’ll take less non major classes and more classes related to your interests but what most kids don’t realize is an AAS degree is designed to put you right into the workforce, not right into a university so most of those classes won’t transfer and you could end up spending 6 years to get a 4 year degree.

Yes. Lots of people who spend their 1st two years at a CC get an associates degree in something unrelated to their eventual college major.