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Broadening my health care skills

Read all the fine print before picking a college program

By Laura Jeanne Hammond, 8/06/09

Meghan Marshall decided to translate her interest in broadening her health care skills into a degree she could put to work.

Marshall, from Naples, Fla., is enrolled in the cardiovascular technician program at Edison State College.

During her own search for a college, Marshall first checked out a school that initially seemed legit.

“But something was bothering me about that school,” she says. “Turns out that the school is accredited, but the course for (my major) is not. I would have dropped $35K on an education that would have afforded me nothing.”

That’s one reason, she says, that adult learners should “read the itty-bitty print” when applying to college.

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