| Students who gained the Associate degree at a local | | | | shorter time to gain the Bachelor's degree. |
| community college took one of two paths: | | | | 2) Some State Legislatures began researching the |
| - Transfer Path to a 4-year College. At the | | | | need for Community College to offer Bachelor |
| Community College, students took General Education | | | | degrees. This was rejected by the State Colleges |
| courses and a few lower division major classes and | | | | who feared a huge loss of students. |
| would transfer into the local state college as a Junior. | | | | So the local state colleges began making |
| - Career Path to a Job. These Associate degrees | | | | compromises. One compromise was adding the |
| would help gain a job after graduation. Some of these | | | | Bachelor of Applied Science or Bachelor of Applied |
| majors that led to employment were-electronics, | | | | Technology. Students with the AAS or another |
| computer repair, automotive mechanic, administrative | | | | non-transferable Associate degree now had a way to |
| assistant. The college counselors stressed that these | | | | transfer the Associate degree "as a whole" and would |
| associate degrees were not easily transferable. | | | | come into the state college as a Junior. The term |
| Two changes have happened to allow students with a | | | | "Upside Down Degree" was used to show that the |
| Career Track Associate (Associate of Applied | | | | Major was at the community college or lower division |
| Science, Associate of Applied Technology, or | | | | level and the General Education would be taught at the |
| non-transferable AA or AS degrees) to move on and | | | | State College or upper division level. |
| gain a Bachelor's degree without losing all their credits. | | | | Recently, more compromises have been proposed. A |
| 1) Private universities (especially For-Profit schools) | | | | few states are offering the 90-30 Program. The first |
| allow students to transfer more of the AAS and other | | | | 90 credits (usually the first 3 years) are taught at the |
| non-transferable degrees without losing most of their | | | | community college, with only one year at the more |
| credits. Even though these private schools are more | | | | expensive state university. All these changes have |
| expensive, the students see that it will take a much | | | | reduced costs of attending state colleges. |