Posts by Dave Bergman:

Lockheed Martin Tuition Assistance 2026: Benefits & STEM Degrees

Posted on: 30 Jan 2026

Lockheed Martin is the largest defense contractor in the United States, employing approximately 114,000 to 122,000 people worldwide, including roughly 65,000 engineers, scientists, and information technology professionals. The company’s tuition assistance program reflects this engineering-heavy workforce: annual reimbursement caps that differentiate by degree level (higher for graduate work than undergraduate), a partner school network weighted […]

Are Online Certificates Enough to Get Promoted in Your Career?

Posted on: 30 Jan 2026

For most workers targeting promotion into management or senior individual-contributor roles, the answer is no. Online certificates can support career advancement and produce real wage gains, but they rarely substitute for a bachelor’s degree when the goal is moving up rather than across. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that the majority of management […]

Online College Review: Frontier Nursing University

Posted on: 30 Jan 2026

Frontier Nursing University is one of the most narrowly focused universities in the United States. It does not offer undergraduate programs. It does not offer business, education, or technology degrees. It does not enroll students who are not already registered nurses. What it does offer, and has offered for nearly nine decades, is graduate-level training […]

AT&T Tuition Assistance: Online Degrees for AT&T Employees

Posted on: 29 Jan 2026

AT&T made a strategic decision more than a decade ago that quietly shaped the entire U.S. corporate workforce education landscape. Faced with a workforce that needed massive reskilling toward software, cloud, and network engineering roles, AT&T partnered with Udacity starting in 2014 to create some of the first corporate-sponsored Nanodegree programs. Then in 2013, AT&T […]

Online College Review: Dallas Baptist University

Posted on: 29 Jan 2026

Dallas Baptist University (DBU) launched online education in 1998, predating most Christian online programs by years and putting it among the earliest CCCU institutions to operate accredited online degrees. More than 25 years later, DBU operates 75+ online degree programs at undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral levels with what may be the most aggressive cost positioning […]

Online College Review: Touro University Worldwide

Posted on: 29 Jan 2026

A note on naming before anything else: Touro University Worldwide (TUW) is one institution within the larger Touro College and University System, which spans Touro College (New York), Touro University California (osteopathic medicine, pharmacy, physician assistant programs), New York Medical College, and several other campuses. This review covers Touro University Worldwide specifically — the exclusively […]

Best Environmental Science Summer Programs for High School Students – 2026

Posted on: 29 Jan 2026

Grim climate change statistics and predictions often leave us with pressing questions: how should we deal with – and prepare for – rising global and ocean temperatures? How do we support the planet, its people, and its ecosystems through the coming changes? And what can be mitigated or avoided? Environmental scientists, who specialize in areas […]

Best Business Degrees for Employees Using Tuition Reimbursement

Posted on: 28 Jan 2026

The best business degrees for employees using tuition reimbursement are ones that fit within or near the IRS Section 127 cap of $5,250 per year, align with employer-recognized career advancement paths, and produce credentials that justify the time investment relative to expected salary outcomes. Most major employer tuition reimbursement programs cap annual benefits at exactly […]