 Four years sounds like a long time and that's how long bachelor degrees tend to take but in today's video we are going to be talking about associate degrees aka degrees that take around two years. Now you might think that the types of degrees that are good at the four-year level are going to be the exact same as the ones that are good at the two-year level and actually that's not correct. There are different types of degrees that are better at the two-year level aka associate four-year level or bachelor's six-year level which is master's and the eight-year level which is doctorate and in this video we are going to be talking about the associate level degrees that are really good but before we get into that I just launched my first ever course this is basically my life's work I've been working on it extremely hard for the last three months it's going to be the college 101 guide this is going to answer pretty much all of your college related questions it goes over how to pick your dream college degree how to get the most out of college with the least amount of effort time and money and how to get your first entry level job after graduating this will be available for a limited amount of time and you can find that down in the description below check it out if you want all of your college related issues solved and guys I don't have some kind of giant marketing team like 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classical guitar player for instance and you get an offer for a full ride scholarship to Juilliard then that might be worth it and that's pretty much just like a situation that 0.01% of people will find themselves in and in that very rare case I think that getting an art degree would be worth it but you'd probably want to get it at the bachelor's masters or doctoral level for everybody else if you have aspirations to become an artist I am definitely not saying that you shouldn't become an artist I think that's awesome I have tons of respect for artists however there are much better ways of going about doing that you would have to get a little bit creative you know start some kind of side hustle that involves your art I think you'd get way more out of spending four years of your life moving to a place where there are a lot of like-minded people who do the same type of art that you do and just working with them and then just practicing your craft every single day I think you'd get way more out of doing that it would also cost you about you know $80,000 less so I'm not going to go too deeply into this one guys but it definitely is going into F tier and by the way guys the way I'm categorizing this is how the US Census Bureau categorizes different types of college degrees I think that's an improvement just because if the US Census Bureau does it that way that's probably the best way to do it in my past videos I've kind of categorized them in my own way but I decided to go with the way that the US Census Bureau does it so next one on the list is going to be what's known as biological science degrees and this is going to be something like biology microbiology any type of science degree that involves living organisms so when it comes to the associate level you are going to be able to find some types of like technician type jobs that are involved with biological science so for instance you know you might have a job as a technician where you're basically just going around and checking samples it's not going to be super high paying and it's going to be very repetitive it's kind of going to be like the grunt work however you can find jobs at the associate level I would actually say when it comes to biological science the in terms of investment and your return on investment it's a little bit better at the associate level than it is at the bachelor's level a lot of the time if you want those really good jobs that everyone you know sees themselves getting into like becoming a scientist for instance you're going to need to get a masters at the bare minimum and a lot of the time you'll have to get a doctorate so for this one I'm going to go ahead and put biological sciences into C tier next on the list we're going to be talking about business degrees at the associate level I have a really good friend who went to college got an associates in business and then he was going to go back to get the bachelors but something happened with his family and he couldn't go back so what he did is he got a management level role at a clothing store and this is a role he wouldn't have been able to get right away without the associate level degree he worked his way up from there then he got another management level role at a retail store worked his way up from there for a couple years and now he works at a fortune 50 company making well over six figures a year so business degrees tend to be extremely flexible they're good pretty much no matter what industry you go into in this case he worked in like three different industries and it was just as useful in all of them and even at the associate level business degrees are relatively good now if you think you're just going to get a business degree and then not work hard I think you're a little bit mistaken here my friend for instance worked very hard he usually was working like 50 60 hours a week but his hard work really paid off for him and he was able to land a dream job and when I say dream job like he tells me some of the stuff he does and it's just amazing like this company totally spoils him they order take out almost every single day the company pays for it they have unlimited snacks they have all kinds of different breaks all kinds of different benefits the only thing he complains to me about is he says a lot of the people that work under him are way too spoiled but I kind of am going off on a tangent here overall I'm going to give business degrees an a tier ranking at the associate level next on the list is going to be communications degrees at the associate level so this is going to be things like you know communication for instance journalism etc now the big problem with communication type degrees is that they're just way too general and this is a big problem at pretty much every level whether it's associate bachelor masters or doctorate I think the skill of communication is great but in my opinion it's more of a soft skill and there's no other way of learning it than just by practicing so for instance I might get really good at a certain type of communication right so let's say I got really good at radio broadcasting well some of that is going to bleed over into making youtube videos but a lot of it isn't and I would still have to learn the skill of making youtube videos because that's a different type of communication so with soft skills like this I've learned over time the only way to get good at it is just to practice practice practice now this one isn't as bad as some of the other ones on the list there's still some opportunity out there for you it's probably better to you know have a degree than to not have a degree especially at the associate's level it's not going to cost all that much if you just go to a community college for instance so overall I'm going to go ahead and put this one into D tier next on the list is going to be education degrees and at the associate level education degrees in my opinion are not great you have to get to at least a bachelor's level for them to be viable unfortunately here in the US we don't really pay teachers what they're worth they contribute quite a bit of value they don't really get paid as much as they should probably for that value and especially at the associate level just not a lot of opportunities there you need to at least get a bachelor's in education so this one is going to go into D tier next on the list is going to be engineering degrees at the associate level so engineering is extremely valuable as a skill set just because it's practical problem solving and at the associate level you do see some technician type jobs that are available so for instance you have instrumentation and control engineering which might land you a technician job you start off around 54,000 a year which isn't bad and towards the mid to end part of your career you might make it into the mid 80,000 range however there aren't that many opportunities out there for these engineering technician jobs and again you're going to be doing a lot of the grunt work but it's definitely not a bad option just not as good as the couple other ones on the list so overall I'm going to put this one into A tier next on the list is going to be health degrees and this is the one that really shines pretty much at every level so it doesn't matter whether you're looking at kind of a two-year level like associates degree or a four-year level like bachelors or a six-year level like masters or an eight-year level like doctor it there are great health degrees at every single level that you look at now the thing about health degrees is it's a little hard to compare them to other types of degrees because you're going to have some health degrees and health certifications that take you know six months some of them take a year and a half some of them take three years so it's not dead on spot on at the two-year level like a lot of these other ones are for the associates degrees and so it is a little bit like comparing apples to oranges here but there are a ton of health related degrees out there where you can do somewhere between you know six months to three years of studying and you can make well over $50,000 a year a lot of these are going to be technician type degrees and certifications some of them are going to be really well known and some of them are going to be extremely niche where maybe there's only 10,000 people who do the job in the entire country there's all kinds of assistant jobs there's also technician jobs where you're just a technician for healthcare related devices so this one clearly goes into s tier next we're going to be talking about language degrees at the associate level and this is one that's okay but it's not amazing usually people who graduate with degrees and languages that want to become translators for instance will get it as a side degree so they will double major or many translators will just learn the language on their own and then do specialized training and get specialized certification in order to become a translator so a lot of the time doing formal training when it comes to learning a language in my opinion especially if it's the only degree you get is not a good idea so this one is going to go into d tier not as bad as some of the other ones but still not very good next we're going to be talking about liberal arts majors and this one might surprise you a little bit but i didn't put it in f tier right so in my opinion liberal arts is very interesting first of all and it teaches you what are known as soft skills okay so soft skills are things that are kind of intangible right it's not like mathematics where it's very clear laid out you either get the problem right or you don't these are things like formulating an argument critical thinking giving speeches and doing a liberal arts degree will educate you in these things and that can be valuable both directly and indirectly when it comes to your salary but still for the most part if it's the only degree you get it's not going to be the best this one is going to go into d tier next on the list is going to be mathematics related degrees at the associate level and mathematics skills in general are very sought after so if you are good at math you know your way around a spreadsheet for instance there are a lot of people out there that are going to want to hire you but at the associate level it still has the problems of being a little bit intangible and impractical and so overall this one is going to go into b tier next on the list is going to be physical science degrees so this is going to be any type of science that is not related to living beings so we're going to be talking about physics and chemistry for instance now unfortunately at the associate level still not amazing also not one of the worst i would say this is really middle of the road a lot of the time with science related degrees you're going to have to get at least a master's or a doctorate to get into those really good professions and so for that reason this one is going to go into c tier next on the list we're going to be talking about psychology degrees at the associate level and this is pretty obvious i think i don't think they're going to let you do very many things when it comes to you know helping someone with their mental state somebody who's you know maybe emotionally unstable at an associate level you know the human brain might be the most complicated thing in the universe and it requires tons of training for you to be able to help people out with their mental and emotional issues so at the associate level there's just not going to be that many options for you here so this one is clearly going to go into f tier same with the next one on the list which is going to be social science degrees so i guess you know psychology does fall under this list but you know according to the us census bureau they actually separate these two but another one would be sociology anthropology and again very interesting stuff but unfortunately especially at the associate level just not a lot of jobs out there you're not going to find a lot of opportunities and so this one is going to go into f tier next one on the list is going to be technology related degrees and there are tons of opportunities out there even at the associate level for technology related careers first of all there's a ton of different technician type jobs where you're basically going to be running diagnostics on different equipment repairing the equipment when it breaks down and just helping people to learn how to use the equipment in general these types of jobs in my opinion are not going to go away anytime soon just because of the fact that technology is being further and further integrated into the workforce there's going to be more and more need for technicians in the future so i think this job market is just going to grow on top of that more and more people are getting into coding even at the associate level they're trying to skip going for a bachelor's and there's more and more options out there for people who want to learn how to code or do you know information technology management for instance other types of skills like that database administration things like that at you know sometimes six months sometimes one year and so a lot of the time there are either certifications or alternative methods of getting into these careers so at the associate level or the one to three year range there are a ton of opportunities for this one this one clearly goes into s tier before you leave check out my other videos right here i made them just for you go ahead hit that like button hit the subscribe button notification bell and comment down below any thoughts comments criticisms etc that you have on the video and i will see you guys in the next one