Associates Degrees

Answer 1: "Distance education," be it by correspondence, or using a computer, online -- in other words, regardless of the distance education's particular modality -- is exactly the same as if it were in a physical classroom. There is absolutely no difference between a degree earned in a physical classroom, and one earned online. None! Distance learning is not sub-standard to in-classroom learning...

...and, in fact, the US Department of Education (USDE) has, over the years, commissioned several studies, all of which conclude that distance learning students work just as hard -- harder, in fact -- as/than do their in-classroom counterparts; that they're more self-disciplined; and that they tend to do better and learn more than their in-classroom counterparts.

Do not presume that an entirely-distance-learning degree is in any manner worse than an in-classroom one. Online learning has gotten a bad name in some ignorant persons' minds because all degree/diploma mills operate online. But it's a "all thumbs are fingers, but not all fingers are thumbs" sort of thing in the sense that all mills are online because it's easier to build an impressive website with which to fool people than it is to build a physical campus with which to do the same. So, then, all mills are online. But even Harvard and Yale now offer degrees entirely online; so, obviously, not all online degree programs are degree/diploma mills. Again, thumbs/fingers.

Ignorant people don't understand (or some of them can't even discern) the difference; and so they'll say that an online degree is laughed at, or worthless. Don't believe it. Again: Harvard and Yale.

And so, if you have an undergraduate degree that was earned partly, mostly or even entirely online (or by some other distance learning modality), then you will have no trouble entering a graduate program citing said online degree as requisite for entry to it...

...of course, that assumes that the online degree is accredited by, in the case of the US, an agency approved by the US Department of Education (USDE), and/or the USDE-sanctioned Council for Higher Education Accreditation (CHEA).

If the online degree is not so accredited, then it is probably from a degree or diploma mill, and so is worthless. In fact, there are now some US states where citing a degree from a mill (on a resume, business card, in advertising, on letterhead, in a job application, etc.) can even get you arrested (or at least civilly cited) by the state! Or, even if the online degree isn't from a mill, but it's still unaccredited, then it's still not worth much. Most employers won't accept it; most college won't either allow its credits to transfer into any of its programs, or accept it as requisite for entry into any of its higher-level degree programs; and most government agencies won't accept an unaccredited degree for such things as either jobs or professional licensure.

So, again, the online degree needs to be accredited by a USDE- and/or CHEA-approved agency in order for it to be acceptable into a graduate program.

Or, if the online degree is from the UK or any other non-US country, then it needs to have been from a school that's country's equivalent of "accredited" (even if said country doesn't use that term in the same way that the US does).

The bottom line, though, is that as long as the undergraduate distance education degree is accredited, as we, in the US understand that term (or as whatever its country calls the equivalent of "accreditation"), then any accredited graduate program -- distance modality or in-classroom -- will likely accept it as requisite for entry. And I only write "likely" in that sentence because, remember, each school reserves the right to accept or reject any degree for whatever reasons it wants. But no accredited school should reject an accredited degree solely because it was earned via one or more distance learning modalities. Again: Harvard and Yale.

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Non-rechargeable zinc-carbon AA batteries may have a rating between 400-900 mAh.

'Long-life' (zinc chloride) batteries last for about 1000-1500 mAh.

AA re-chargeable (alkaline) batteries carry a rating in milliampere hours (mAh). e.g 1700 mAh, 2100 mAh, 2450 mHa etc., up to about 3000 mAh.

The higher the rating the longer it will last for any given usage at a constant temperature. (Even without usage there will always be some drainage of power over the months)

Two batteries will have more power than one battery, but the way that the power is used by the equipment and the 'cell-balancing' between the two batteries will affect the total life that can be expected from a power unit of two AA batteries.

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• How many graduates pass the NCLEX-RN?
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• Will you start out as a prenursing major?
• What types of clinical training sites will you be able choose from? Are they on or near campus?
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Yes, there is. They're not as common as "Associate in Applied Science" (AAS) degrees, but "Bachelor of Applied Science" (BAS) degrees do exist.

And BAS degrees suffer from much the same problem as AAS degrees: Not enough "lower-division general education" (LDGE) during the first two (freshman and sophomore) years.

In fact, many BAS programs are really just degree-completion programs for AAS degree holders so that said AAS degree holders, whose AAS degrees suffer from not enough LDGE, may nevertheless get a bachelors degree of some kind in only two years of study after the AAS degree.

The reason such is necessary is because AAS degrees usually contain much less -- sometimes as little as half -- the amount of LDGE as "Associate of Arts" (AA), or "Associate of Science" (AS) degrees...

...both of which, because they (AA/AS degrees) contain the same amount of LDGE as BA/BS degrees, typically count as the entire first and second (freshman and sophomore) years of said BA/BS degree. And so the AA/AS degree holder who transfers said AA/AS degree into the BA/BS degree may begin said BA/BS degree as a full junior, and then complete just the junior and senior years, and earn a BA or BS degree.

However, an AAS degree holder, who only has maybe half of the LDGE of an AA/AS degree holder, will find it very difficult to transfer his/her AAS degree into a BA or BS program... because, again, the AAS will be too deficient in LDGE to qualify as the first two (freshman and sophomore) years of the BA/BS. And so the AAS student finds himself/herself having to take sometimes as much as almost a year of full-time LDGE coursework in order to get "caught-up" with the BA/BS's LDGE requirements before s/he may be considered a full junior in the BA/BS program. The AAS transfer student, then, can end-up having to take almost three years to get the BA/BS, whereas the AA/AS student can do it on only two.

Many -- not all, but many -- BAS degrees were created so that AAS degree holders could get their bachelors in two years, just like that AA/AS degree holders. But the BAS is still deficient in LGDE compared with a BA/BS; and so the BAS may or may not be acceptable as requisite for entry into to a higher-level masters degree program (unless, of coures, it's a "master of applied science" degree... which I'm not even sure exists... I'd have to research it).

While there are BAS degrees which may be entered into at the freshman level, and then pursued for four years until completion, most BAS degrees are simply to help AAS degree holders get their both AAS and BAS in the same four years as AA/AS degree holders can get their both AA/AS and BA/BS degrees.

So the problem, then, begins at the AAS level. My advice is to never get an AAS unless you're absollutely, positively certain that that's the only degree you'll ever get. Ever!

If you think that there's even the slightest possibility that you'll one day pursue a bachelors, then stay the heck away from AAS degrees! Instead, get an AA or AS so that you can one day transfer it into a BA or BS. Otherwise, if you get the AAS, you'll be limited to either a BAS, or to having to take longer to get a BA/BS.