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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Homicidal_Squirrel" data-source="post: 6273266" data-attributes="member: 6750031">Din't he start talking abad about the show or the producers or something?Sometimes you don't even have to be able to pay. With financial aid grants, most community colleges are easily paid off. Down here at least, if you go to a community college, you'll end up getting some money back from the grant money you are given as part of your financial aid package.That's also changing. Down here our community colleges have started offering several four year degrees. <a href="http://www.mdc.edu/main/academics/credit.aspx?s=degree#B.S.1" target="_blank">Here is one of the community colleges's B.A./S. offerings</a>. The college s now known as Miami Dade College. They removed the "Community" from their title a few years ago when they started offering a B.S. in education and some other field. Even though it's no longer has "community" in it's title, it has several programs for people in the community. For example, students that graduate high school and live within Miami Dade County get to go there for free. I think that there might be a minimum GPA requirement, but even if you don't qualify for the free tuition, grants make it so you get school paid off and have a bit of extra cash in your pocket.I don't know if they do this everywhere, but here in Florida we have the 2+2 program. It's basically a law that was started many many many years ago in order to protect community colleges. Since community colleges were the first to open up, and they only offered two year degrees at the time, they felt that four year institutions would run them out of business with the B.A. being far more impressive than a A.A. So they passed a law that made it so four year institutions couldn't offer A.A./S. The law also made it so that if you graduated with an A.A. from a community college, you were guaranteed acceptance into any four year state university. Private universities don't have this requirement, though they still can't offer A.A. degrees.So back to your point about the classes offered: A lot of people go to community colleges because they do offer such a wide array of classes and two year degrees. They then get the benefit of transferring to a four year school. Community colleges are quite beneficial. Interestingly enough, even though community colleges are now offering four year degrees, the 2 + 2 program is still in effect. I'm betting this will change in a few years when community colleges that offer four year degrees lose the community college stigma and start adding graduate programs.</blockquote>

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