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The College Major with the Lowest Unemployment Rate

Posted on May 10, 2012 by Brittany Behrman

Wondering which degree has the most play in the job market right now? Find out which industries have the lowest percentages of unemployed recent grads, which pay the highest on average, and which majors will provide you with the best … Continue reading →

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What is Health Information Management?

Posted on May 9, 2012 by Brittany Behrman

The greatest misunderstanding in Health Informatics is the difference between Health Informatics (HI) and Health Information Management (HIM). To clear up this issue, Elizabeth Brandes BHSc. (HIM) CHIM., of the Canadian Health Information Management Association (CHIMA), has written for us the first … Continue reading →

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Free Fall Courses at MIT

Posted on April 18, 2012 by Brittany Behrman

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology recently opened up their program to Internet users worldwide. Their new, completely free learning program, MITx, features the same courses taught at MIT on the path to an accredited degree. At the end of the each course, … Continue reading →

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Voting has Opened for the Top MBA Blog Award!

Posted on March 22, 2012 by Brittany Behrman

Voting has opened for the next award in the eCollegeFinder Blog Award Series: the Top MBA Blog Award! We’ve created the Top MBA Blog Award to provide MBA and potential MBA students with a collection of helpful and encouraging blogs from … Continue reading →

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Is the Cost of Graduate School Worth it?

Posted on March 20, 2012 by Brittany Behrman

There are a few reasons to go back to graduate school: personal development, professional development, and last, but not least, a nice pay increase. As you start to think about getting your online master’s degree, are you taking into account … Continue reading →

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Are You Voting for Intelligence?

Posted on February 21, 2012 by Brittany Behrman

Tony Moton of Yahoo! Education recently published an article on how smart the 2012 presidential candidates are. Since eCollegeFinder.org takes pride in matching students with online institutions of higher learning, we think it’s great to see all the higher education … Continue reading →

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Now Announcing our Next Award: MBA Blogs!

Posted on February 16, 2012 by Brittany Behrman

Our main purpose in writing the eCollegeFinder blog is to provide our readers with a great resource for knowledge on going back to school, and to give tips to help simplify the rest of their lives while they do it! … Continue reading →

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Free Textbooks, Free Education

Posted on February 14, 2012 by Brittany Behrman

The Saylor Foundation recently released four open-source, college-level textbooks as part of their goal to offer completely free higher-level education. The textbooks were chosen as part of a competition – authors made submissions and those books that Saylor.org chose to … Continue reading →

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Now Announcing the Top Writing Blog Award Winners!

Posted on February 9, 2012 by Brittany Behrman

You voted and the results are in! Miss Snark’s First Victim A Writer’s Life with Liz Fielding Unwritten Congratulations to all of the winners of the Top Writing Blog Award! We’ve posted the list of winners, along with the Top … Continue reading →

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Share Your Skills, Learn Some for Free

Posted on February 8, 2012 by Brittany Behrman

Skillshare.com is a start up website that provides a forum for users to find and share skill building classes in a ‘democratic’ and ‘peer-to-peer’ way. Users can create a password on their own, or hook the site up with their … Continue reading →

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