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What is an Apprenticeship Degree?

Designed for working adults, an Apprenticeship Degree combines classroom learning with hands-on training, allowing candidates to earn a degree while gaining real-world experience in their chosen profession and career path.
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With Apprenticeship Degrees, the workplace transforms into a learning place, with half of the learning coming from on-the-job training. Coursework empowers apprentices to apply today's newly acquired skills to tomorrow's jobs. 

Professors and workplace mentors collaborate, ensuring a seamless blend of theoretical understanding and practical exposure, while students earn a paycheck, build their resumes, and graduate debt-free.
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The Apprenticeship Degree is changing lives
Job-embedded learning / job-embedded training is the best thing ever. You're going to use my job and its hours towards my student teaching. I'm getting credit for my degree. This is how it should be. And I'm getting paid!
Towanna Edwards Reach University Candidate
Helena, AR
My kids are very proud of me for fulfilling my dreams from before and becoming a teacher. I feel like I have accomplished a lot in my life. It's made me realize that I can do what I set out to do. And anybody can — if you want to do it, you can do it.
Carla Haney Reach University Graduate
Maynard, A
At first, I had second thoughts, because it was online and we were just getting used to doing the online thing. I didn't know how I was going to do, because it’s not the same as face-to-face, but it has been great.
Leslie De Leon Reach University Candidate
Russellville, AL

It's as easy as A, B, C

Apprenticeship degrees. . . 
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Are affordable without the need to rely on student debt.

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Are based entirely in the workplace from day one to graduation.

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Render credit for on-the-job work that candidates are already doing.

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Stories about the Apprenticeship Degree
Report: The Best of Both Worlds: Teacher Apprenticeship Degrees
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Report: The Best of Both Worlds: Teacher Apprenticeship Degrees

In the United States, people often feel like they need to choose between pursuing a conventional four-year college degree or working, leaving ...
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NCAD & Growing List of Partners Take Foundational Strides Towards Achieving 3 Million Apprenticeship Degree Completions by 2035
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NCAD & Growing List of Partners Take Foundational Strides Towards Achieving 3 Million Apprenticeship Degree Completions by 2035

In partnership with nearly 50 higher ed, state, employer, and philanthropic leaders, NCAD is achieving meaningful proof points to bring ...
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Introducing NCAD | "Radical Change" & Job-Embedded Learning from Paul Fain's "The Job"

Apprenticeship degrees are becoming a hot concept in the U.S., with growing interest from states and employers across industries. The combination of ...
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