bachelor's degree
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According to his LinkedIn page, Loftis attended the University of Nebraska at Omaha from 2000-2005 and earned a bachelor’s degree in management of information systems.
From Los Angeles Times • May 7, 2026
Americans who recently earned their bachelor’s degree have faced a challenging job market in the pat few years.
From Barron's • May 5, 2026
Powell and student researcher Louis Buchalter, who earned a Cal Poly bachelor's degree in physics in 2025, published their findings in Physical Review B in a paper titled "Flux-Switching Floquet Engineering."
From Science Daily • May 4, 2026
Before Reed Hastings revolutionized the global entertainment business, he sold Rainbow vacuum cleaners door-to-door during his gap year between high school and Bowdoin College, where he earned his bachelor’s degree in mathematics.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 16, 2026
As it happens, fewer than 30 percent of Head Start teachers have even a bachelor’s degree.
From "Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything" by Steven D. Levitt
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