00:00the associate's degree tier list for
00:032023 in this video we are going to be
00:06ranking different associate Majors from
00:08s tier which is the best to F tier which
00:11is the worst so I've been in the kitchen
00:12cooking this up for you I've been
00:13working really hard on this year's list
00:15and I have no doubt that it is going to
00:17be the best list I have ever made so I
00:19always talk about the two most important
00:21things which are salary and demand and
00:23then I also get into other things like
00:24job satisfaction meaning Etc but on this
00:27year's list I changed something that I
00:29thought was extremely important so
00:31basically there's a lot of careers out
00:32there that have good demand but they
00:34don't necessarily have a lot of demand
00:36at the entry level so in this year's
00:38list I focused on the degrees that lead
00:40to careers that have a lot of demand at
00:42the entry level right because we've all
00:44seen those job postings that are
00:45entry-level jobs that require you know
00:48three to five years of experience so if
00:50you appreciate all my hard work on this
00:51year's list go ahead and swoosh that
00:53like button like a Steph Curry
00:55three-pointer and let's go ahead and get
00:57into it alright so first one we're going
00:58to talk about is of course art degrees
01:00okay so art degrees at the associate
01:03level now I typically do not recommend
01:06getting an art degree for anybody except
01:08for a very small percentage of people
01:10like probably 0.1 percent you know if
01:12you're in the top 99.9th percentile as a
01:16guitarist for instance okay maybe you
01:17should go to Juilliard and get trained
01:19by world-renowned classical guitarists
01:22but it is such a small percentage of
01:24people that I recommend art degrees to
01:26however if you are going to get an art
01:28degree if you have your heart set on it
01:30and you're absolutely gonna get an art
01:31degree an associate's degree is probably
01:34the way to go again I highly recommend
01:37not doing it I think you can learn much
01:38more by just putting yourself in an
01:40environment with other artists that do
01:43whatever your preferred art is and then
01:45just collaborate with them work with
01:46them share your ideas you can learn a
01:49lot more from doing that in my opinion
01:51and I always talk about this I recommend
01:52the book steal like an artist that has
01:54nothing to do with stealing like an
01:56artist it's just a clickbait title
01:57really really good book if you and art
01:59artistic type of person you want to
02:01learn how to make money with art spoiler
02:03alert it does not involve going to
02:05college now with that being said I'm
02:07going to go ahead and pick out one it's
02:09multimedia and web design with this one
02:11you'd expect to make about forty
02:13thousand dollars a year starting out and
02:1465 000 in mid-career pay and the meeting
02:17score is about 37 percent we can do
02:20another one like a video editor for
02:21instance if you type that in on
02:23Glassdoor you're gonna see they make
02:24about fifty five thousand dollars a year
02:26if you type in just artist in general
02:28you're gonna see they make around forty
02:30six thousand dollars a year and if you
02:31type in artist on LinkedIn at the entry
02:34level you're gonna see 29 000 results
02:36now interestingly enough the skill of
02:39art is actually on the rise for instance
02:42a lot of AD platforms are moving towards
02:44being more creative focused and by that
02:47I mean they're much more focused on the
02:48actual art behind the ads because it's
02:51getting easier and easier to do the
02:52analytical part of things so there is
02:54hope for artists out there you
02:56definitely can make money from art
02:58there's a lot of great careers out there
02:59are like web design ux UI design Etc but
03:03I typically do not recommend going to
03:05college in order to get a job in art and
03:08I definitely don't recommend going to
03:09college in order to start your own
03:11business in art so overall I'm going to
03:12put this one into D tier next one on the
03:15list is going to be Communications
03:17degrees at the associate level all right
03:20so this one you're going to make about
03:2233 000 a year starting out and 56 000 in
03:26mid-career pay and has a meaning score
03:27of 50 percent now if you type in Mass
03:30Communications on Glassdoor you're going
03:32to see the average salary is about sixty
03:35four thousand dollars a year and if you
03:36type in Mass Communications on LinkedIn
03:39at the entry level you'll see about 2
03:40400 results so yeah again this is one of
03:43those um typically don't recommend
03:45Communications degrees to most people
03:47this one is going to go into D tier next
03:50one on the list is education degrees at
03:52the associate level so this one you'd
03:53start off making thirty thousand dollars
03:55a year and mid-career pay is forty five
03:58thousand the meaning score is a little
03:59bit bit higher at 60 percent so if you
04:02look on glass door and you type in
04:03teacher you're going to see they make
04:04about forty five thousand dollars a year
04:06and if you go on LinkedIn type in
04:08teacher at the entry level you're going
04:10to see about 22 000 results so this is
04:13of course an incredibly important career
04:16in society but with that being said I
04:19can't you know just give it a better
04:20rating because of that reason right like
04:23I have to stick with the numbers and and
04:24be objective and fair here at the
04:28um it's okay you know you can get
04:29certain positions at that level I'm
04:32going to go ahead and put this one into
04:33C tier my recommendation for somebody
04:36who does want to become a teacher like
04:38you have your heart set on becoming a
04:39teacher is to go to a school like WGU
04:42because you can actually get a
04:44bachelor's degree in education
04:46relatively quickly like within a year or
04:48two and just check out my videos on WGU
04:50if you are confused about what I'm
04:52talking about next one on the list is
04:54going to be engineering degrees at the
04:57associate level now these are actually
04:59really good so there are a bunch of like
05:01random technician related careers out
05:03there where you need to have a good
05:04amount of you know academic knowledge
05:06but not quite as much as you need for
05:09like a bachelor's degree so an example
05:10of one of those careers would be
05:12instrumentation and control engineering
05:13this is an associate level degree and
05:15you'd start off making fifty four
05:17thousand dollars a year and mid-career
05:19pay is 85 000 and if you type in
05:21engineering technician on Glassdoor
05:23you're going to see they make about
05:24fifty five thousand dollars a year and
05:26if you type in engineering technician on
05:27LinkedIn you're going to see 44 000
05:30results at the entry level so yeah
05:31engineering degrees are pretty much good
05:33at every single level and there's a
05:35reason you see so many millionaires and
05:37billionaires having engineering degrees
05:39it teaches you practical real world
05:41problem solving skills so yeah this one
05:43definitely goes into s tier next one on
05:46the list is Health degrees these are
05:48also incredibly good at every single
05:50level now one thing that's great about
05:52health degrees and also engineering
05:54degrees is much of the time you actually
05:56have to get the degree in order to get
05:59into certain careers right so with
06:01something like technology for instance
06:03the degree is optional for many careers
06:05now do eight you know hiring managers
06:08prefer a degree in many cases yes there
06:10are many cases where hiring managers
06:11will prefer a degree but it's still
06:14optional you don't have to get it when
06:15it comes to health degrees and
06:17engineering degrees you pretty much have
06:19to have the degree so that creates
06:21what's known as a barrier to entry to
06:23everyone else they have to go through
06:25that Gauntlet in order to get into the
06:27career which is good because that means
06:29when you're thinking about supply and
06:30demand you have a competitive Advantage
06:32there now one associate health related
06:34degree would be radiation therapy they
06:36make sixty five thousand dollars a year
06:38starting out and 95 000 in mid-career
06:40pay and it has a whopping 92 percent
06:44when it comes to meaning score and this
06:46is another thing that I'd like to
06:47mention is Health degrees and health
06:49careers do tend to have very high
06:51meaning scores and meaning does tend to
06:53correlate with happiness over the long
06:55run right so the two big things you want
06:56to pay attention to when it comes to how
06:58satisfied you are with your job is of
07:00course job satisfaction you know how
07:02well do companies treat you for instance
07:04and then meaning and meaning is
07:06basically how much you think your job
07:08positively impacts the world and both of
07:10those things are very important when it
07:12comes to your overall happiness with
07:13your job now when you look up radiation
07:15therapists on Glassdoor you're going to
07:17see they make about 97 000 a year and
07:20when you look up radiation therapists on
07:22LinkedIn at the entry level you're going
07:24to see 5 800 results and there's
07:26honestly like probably thousands of
07:28these little random Niche health degree
07:30and health careers out there so you do
07:32want to make sure you do your research
07:34for these some of them require an
07:36associate's degree some of them require
07:37some level of like certification that
07:39might take you one to three years to get
07:41into but yeah definitely do your
07:42research these random little niche
07:45health careers can be really good this
07:47one absolutely goes into s tier Health
07:49degrees are good at every single level
07:52associate Bachelor Masters and doctorate
07:55next one on the list is going to be
07:57language related degrees at the
07:59associate associate level so this one is
08:01surprisingly okay when it comes to the
08:03statistics so you start off at thirty
08:05two thousand dollars a year with
08:06something like Spanish for instance
08:08mid-career pays forty seven thousand and
08:11meaning score is 62 percent and if you
08:13get into a career like translator for
08:15instance you'd expect to make about
08:16fifty thousand dollars a year and if you
08:18type in translator on LinkedIn at the
08:20entry level you're gonna see about 14
08:22000 results now you technically don't
08:24even need a degree to become a
08:26translator it's really just all about
08:28your skill but with that being said
08:29getting an associate level degree does
08:32seem to help a little bit with that but
08:34still you know it's not amazing the
08:36numbers aren't incredible I'm gonna go
08:38ahead and put this one into D tier next
08:40on the list is going to be a liberal
08:42arts degree at the associate level so an
08:44example of this one would be one of my
08:46favorite subjects if not my favorite
08:47subject which is history if you look at
08:50history at the associate level you're
08:51going to see thirty four thousand
08:53dollars a year starting out fifty eight
08:54thousand mid-career pay and a forty
08:56percent meaning score one career path
08:58you might go down a nice so might
09:00because you know history degrees don't
09:02have a lot of career paths you can go
09:03down let's be honest is uh paralegal and
09:06paralegals make about fifty one thousand
09:08dollars a year according to Glassdoor
09:10and if you look up paralegal on LinkedIn
09:12at the entry level you're going to see
09:14about 26 000 results the only problem
09:16with this is you can go into that
09:17paralegal career path with a bunch of
09:19different degrees right you don't have
09:21to get a history degree to go down that
09:22path you could get any number of
09:24different liberal arts degrees or
09:25non-liberal Arts degrees so yeah liberal
09:27arts I'm gonna have to put this one into
09:29F tier next one on the list is going to
09:31be associate level math degrees so with
09:34this one you'd expect to make thirty
09:35nine thousand dollars a year starting
09:37out sixty nine thousand in mid-career
09:39pay and 51 percent meaning score one
09:42career path you might go down is
09:43becoming an accounting assistant and
09:45they make about forty thousand dollars a
09:47year and if you look up accounting
09:49assistant on LinkedIn you're gonna see
09:50about 20 000 results at the entry level
09:53so yeah math you know is a pretty
09:55valuable skill a lot of people can't do
09:57math a lot of people are math phobic
09:59they're are afraid of it so if you are
10:01somebody who is good at math it might
10:03make sense for you to get a degree in
10:04mathematics so get off your app let's do
10:11Madden but it isn't necessarily that
10:13applicable to the real world in the same
10:15way that an engineering degree is so
10:17overall I'm going to put math degrees in
10:19C tier next on the list is going to be
10:22Science degrees at the associate level
10:24so an example of this one would be a
10:26chemistry degree and they make 35 000
10:28starting out and 64 000 in mid-career
10:31pay and the meaning score is 54 which is
10:33pretty good now with this degree you
10:35could become a laboratory technician and
10:37they make about forty two thousand
10:39dollars a year and if you look up
10:40laboratory technician on LinkedIn at the
10:42entry level you're going to see 29 000
10:44results so I actually think Science
10:46degrees at the associate level are a
10:49little bit better than science degrees
10:50at the bachelor's level in many cases
10:52especially when you talk about a degree
10:54like biology and the reason for that is
10:56because a lot of those laboratory
10:58technician jobs you actually don't need
11:00a bachelor's degree to get you can get
11:02into them with just an associate's
11:04degree and the bachelor's degree doesn't
11:05actually help you out all that much
11:07there's tons of people who graduate with
11:09Biology Bachelor degrees and they can't
11:11find a job or if they do find a job it's
11:13not a good one when it comes to science
11:14a lot of the really good jobs are going
11:16to require at least a master's and in
11:18many cases a doctorate so overall I'm
11:20going to put this one into C tier next
11:22one on the list is going to be
11:24psychology degrees so psychology degrees
11:26at the associate level you're going to
11:28start off 33 000 a year mid-career pays
11:3151 000 and meaning score is 55 percent
11:34now again uh not that many jobs for
11:37psychologists at the associate level
11:40um you know one thing you might do is
11:41paralegal like I mentioned already
11:43before you know they're not going to let
11:44you help somebody with their mental
11:46health which is an incredibly
11:47complicated thing with just an
11:49associate's level degree that would make
11:51zero sense so this one goes into F tier
11:53next one on the list is social science
11:55degrees in general and this kind of
11:58falls under the same category so let's
12:00do an example like Anthropologist for
12:02instance you know they make fifty two
12:03thousand dollars a year and if you type
12:05in Anthropologist on LinkedIn at the
12:07entry level you're going to see 865
12:09results but here's the big problem you
12:11can't become an anthropologist with an
12:12associate's degree you can't become an
12:14anthropologist with a bachelor's degree
12:16you probably can't become an
12:17anthropologist with a master's degree
12:19you're very likely going to have to get
12:20a PhD and there's only 856 jobs
12:23available well this is going to hurt
12:27so you know this this one's really tough
12:29especially at the associate level you
12:31know it's just not going to be a good
12:33one so social science degree is at the
12:35associate level go into F tier next on
12:37the list is going to be business degrees
12:39so at the associate level you'd expect
12:41to make 50 000 starting out 85 000
12:43mid-career pay and 52 percent meaning
12:46score now I actually have a close friend
12:48who graduated with an Associate level
12:49business degree and he started off
12:51working at a manager in a store and I
12:54believe he started as an associate
12:55manager then he worked his way up to
12:57manager then he transferred over to
12:59another store became a manager and then
13:00he finally transferred to a company
13:02that's really good and became a manager
13:05at that company and now he makes super
13:06super good money all with just an
13:08associate level Business Degree so
13:09business degrees are actually pretty
13:11good at the associate level so for
13:12instance if he became a store manager
13:14you'd expect to make about fifty one
13:16thousand dollars a year and if you type
13:17in manager on LinkedIn app entry level
13:20you're going to see one Million results
13:22so there's lots and lots of demand for
13:24people who have management skills now
13:26with business degrees there's always
13:28that question of whether it's
13:29correlation or causation and by that I
13:32mean are the types of people who would
13:35probably make more money no matter what
13:37degree they got the types of people that
13:39tend to go for business degrees because
13:41people who tend to go for business
13:43degrees are probably more likely to be
13:45interested in making money interested in
13:47becoming managers maybe even interested
13:49in starting their own businesses so
13:50there's always that question of
13:51correlation or causation and that's very
13:54difficult to actually determine now that
13:56being said you can get into project
13:57management without a degree but I think
13:59an associate's degree is going to give
14:01you a little bit of a boost there now if
14:03you're somebody who basically wants to
14:05get into a career as fast as possible
14:07and start making money as fast as
14:09possible you don't want to have to go to
14:11college you don't want to have to have a
14:13bunch of previous experience you just
14:14want to get into a career where you can
14:16make money really quickly I highly
14:18recommend looking into Tech sales so
14:20I've interviewed a bunch of different
14:21people on this channel who have gotten
14:23into Tech sales and they make really
14:25good money right off the bat so for
14:26instance Della went through the whole
14:28college process she bounced around to a
14:30bunch of different colleges she had a
14:32really bad experience overall but then
14:34she discovered Tech sales while she was
14:35still in college and she was actually
14:37just a stay-at-home mom taking college
14:38classes and she decided to take the
14:40plunge try to get into text sales and
14:42she was able to actually get in within a
14:44month and a half with over one hundred
14:46thousand dollar a year salary at her
14:48dream company and if you want to know
14:50how she did it I'll go ahead and put the
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14:53well as the pinned comment below and if
14:55you choose to use their Advanced plan
14:56where they'll give you training they'll
14:58put you into a community of a bunch of
14:59other people who are also trying to get
15:01into Tech sales and on top of that they
15:03will get you guaranteed interviews with
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15:09Shane fifty for fifty dollars off so
15:11overall business degrees at the
15:12associates level I'll put this one into
15:14a tier and speaking of Technology
15:16degrees that's the next one on the list
15:18technology degrees at the associate
15:20level are also very good so for instance
15:22Computer Science and Mathematics is the
15:24number one degree at the associate level
15:26of course forty five thousand dollars a
15:28year starting out hundred and six
15:29thousand in mid-career pay and a forty
15:32nine percent meaning score one career
15:33path you might go down is becoming a web
15:35developer they make about seventy
15:37thousand dollars a year and if you type
15:39in web developer on LinkedIn at the
15:41entry level you will see twenty four
15:42thousand results this one absolutely
15:44goes into s tier so yeah like I said
15:47before check out that interview with
15:48Della highly highly recommend that I'll
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