Two-year colleges, sometimes known as junior or community colleges, typically give associates degrees, technical certifications, and sometimes high-school equivalency degrees, or GEDs.
More than half the jobs require at least an associate's degree (ie, one granted by a technical or community college) in electronics or semiconductor manufacturing.
Even the boy who graduates from college without any specific professional competence represents an investment of $50,000 or more. This only a very rich society can afford.
But he did not begin his college-level education at the university. First, he spent three years at a Maryland junior college with, by chance, the same name as his last name.
Consider that by the end of the decade, two out of three of all jobs will require an education beyond high school, from an 18-week certificate to a two-year associate’s degree to a four-year bachelor’s, or a PhD.