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Should I get associates degree from my current college before transferring to another one?

I am currently a sophomore majoring in accounting at a small private school (the accounting program isn’t the greatest), and am transferring in the fall 09 to a bigger private school with a better accounting program. At the new school I plan to get my Bachelor’s degree, and then spend another year to get my Master’s in Forensic Studies (I need 150 credit hours to take the Cpa Exam). I have heard that Associate degrees are looked down upon, but I am pretty sure that I have taken all the classes needed for it. My gpa at my current school is very high, so could I use the associates degree as something that could boost up my resume, or is it pointless for me to get it?

Having any degree is better than not. Some people choose to graduate from a community college for guaranteed college transfer credit and to enter as a junior, while others decide that they want to transfer as soon as possible and usually do not take that extra semester or two that it would take them to graduate.

The choice is yours, you have nothing to lose either way. Once you have a bachelor’s and masters, no one is going to care about weather or not you graduated from CC.

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