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Community colleges sometimes seen as a lesser alternative for college students can get many students started on a more flexible and less costly path toward a degree.
These schools offer an associate’s degree in two years that is transferable to many four-year institutions for a bachelor’s degree. Once called junior colleges, they popped up in the U.S. around the turn of the 1900s.
The biggest draw of community colleges is their affordability.
While the average tuition at public four-year schools for the 2017-2018 academic school year was $26,261, and $46,014 at private institutions, according to the National Center for Education Statistics, those numbers understate the cost of many private competitive universities.
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