{"id":168636,"date":"2023-07-29T22:26:34","date_gmt":"2023-07-30T03:26:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/traditional-colleges-are-now-recognizing-googles-online-courses-and-education-may-never-be-the-same"},"modified":"2023-07-29T22:26:34","modified_gmt":"2023-07-30T03:26:34","slug":"traditional-colleges-are-now-recognizing-googles-online-courses-and-education-may-never-be-the-same","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/traditional-colleges-are-now-recognizing-googles-online-courses-and-education-may-never-be-the-same","title":{"rendered":"Traditional colleges are now recognizing Google\u2019s online courses, and education may never be the same"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/traditional-colleges-are-now-recognizing-googles-online-courses-and-education-may-never-be-the-same2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Google career certificates are no longer just an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.freethink.com\/culture\/alternatives-to-college\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">alternative to college<\/a> \u2014 they\u2019re also now a way for college students to boost their earning potential, while lowering the cost of obtaining a degree.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The challenge:<\/strong> On average, people with bachelor\u2019s degrees earn $27,000 more per year than people whose highest level of education is a high school diploma.<\/p>\n<p>However, students can expect to spend thousands or tens of thousands of dollars <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2019\/03\/18\/private-colleges-costs-35830-on-averagebut-students-may-pay-less.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">per year<\/a> earning their degrees through a traditional four-year program, and about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usnews.com\/education\/best-colleges\/paying-for-college\/articles\/see-how-student-loan-borrowing-has-risen-in-10-years\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">two-thirds of students<\/a> end up taking out loans to help pay that cost.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google career certificates are no longer just an alternative to college \u2014 they\u2019re also now a way for college students to boost their earning potential, while lowering the cost of obtaining a degree. The challenge: On average, people with bachelor\u2019s degrees earn $27,000 more per year than people whose highest level of education is a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-168636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168636\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}