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Does the insurance industry actually pay for college? For a sector that employs roughly 2.98 million people across actuarial, underwriting, claims, technology, and corporate roles, the answer is yes, and the programs are often more useful than employees realize. Insurance is a credential-driven business. Carriers depend on licensed and designated talent, from actuaries pricing r...

Consider an implementation consultant at Oracle Health in Kansas City, the part of Oracle that used to be Cerner. She joined out of a community college with an associate degree, learned electronic health record systems on the job, and has spent five years configuring software for hospitals. She wants to move up, and she faces […]

Over the past decade, hiring in technology has been pulled in two directions at once. On one side, employers still screen for college degrees and still pay a premium for them. On the other, a parallel system of skills-based credentials has grown up around specific platforms, where a certification you can earn in months, sometimes […]

KPMG funds the thinnest post-hire tuition reimbursement of the Big Four firms. It also runs what may be the most generous accounting-education pipeline anywhere in the Big Four. Both of those statements are true at the same time, and the apparent contradiction is the most useful thing to understand about how KPMG pays for degrees. […]

Foreign language study is one of the most globally oriented dimensions of an undergraduate education. Whether a student is pursuing Spanish, French, German, Chinese, Arabic, Japanese, Russian, or the full range of languages available at comprehensive research universities, the acquisition of genuine linguistic competence, the ability to read, write, speak, and think in another l...