The phrase "assistant degree" is not correct in English; it should be "associate degree." You can use "associate degree" when referring to a two-year degree typically awarded by community colleges or junior colleges.
Example: "After completing my associate degree in business, I plan to transfer to a four-year university."
Alternatives: "two-year degree" or "junior college degree."
Gilbert, who is studying to apply for a physician's assistant degree and can be aptly professorial, cautioned everyone about Percocet.
After returning to school and taking a two-year physician's assistant degree from Long Island University, she held a series of hospital jobs.
Corin and Kris met in graduate school, when she earned her Doctor of Physical Therapy degree and he his physician's assistant degree.
Another advantage of a physician assistant degree: Employment opportunities are expected to grow 30% by 2020 (from the 2010 employment numbers), according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Another advantage of a physician's assistant degree: The prerequisites are not as narrow as other high-paying degrees, like engineering and physics, according to Al Lee, Payscale's director of quantitative analysis.
During this time it also became the birthplace of the first Physician Assistant degree program in the United States.
Those job prospects–and the promise of hefty paychecks put physician assistant degrees at the top of the heap in Forbes' first-ever look at the best master's degrees.
The growing demand for them and the promise of fat paychecks put physician assistant degrees at the top of the heap in Forbes' third-annual look at the best master's degrees for jobs.
Those job prospects--and the promise of hefty paychecks--put physician assistant degrees at the top of the heap in Forbes' first-ever look at the best master's degrees.
Vatterott staff then told her that a medical assistant's degree would require more classes and another $10,000.
Vatterrott staff then told her that a medical assistant's degree would require more classes and another $10,000.
