bachelor's degree
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The bills add to a 2021 law that lets community colleges create up to 30 new bachelor’s degree programs a year if they do not duplicate CSU, UC or private four-year offerings.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2026
Students who want to go "up the scale" will be allowed, Burke said, for example, if a student finishes a bachelor's degree and then wants to complete a masters.
From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026
“There’s a rapidly growing supply of people with a bachelor’s degree, and you have a rapid decline of people who don’t,” Levanon says.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 7, 2026
Cabaldon said both systems raised concerns about earlier versions of this year’s bills, including fears of “1,000s of new bachelor’s degree programs being offered all over the place.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 2026
After transferring to the University of Maryland, she earned her bachelor’s degree and entered a master’s program in psychology, becoming the first of Henrietta’s descendants to attend graduate school.
From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot
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