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Careers.Org provides a extensive and comprehensive listing of career education colleges, trade, professional, and vocational career schools and colleges for adults, of college age or returning to colleges after being in the workplace for awhile.

These career education schools and colleges offer continuing and adult education in culinary arts, information technology, graphic design, web design, animation, fashion design, interior design, business, automotive, education, nursing, health services, business and mba programs, with bachelor and masters degrees, counseling and more.

  • Consumer Economics.
    A program that focuses on the application of micro- and macro-economic theory to consumer behavior and individual and family consumption of goods and services. Includes instruction in modeling, economic forecasting, indexing, price theory, and analysis of individual commodities and services and/or groups of related commodities and services.
  • Consumer Merchandising/Retailing Management.
    (NEW) A program that focuses on product and service promotion from the perspective of individual and family consumers and that prepares individuals to function as consumer management and marketing consultants in for-profit and non-profit enterprises. Includes instruction in applied market research; consumer behavior; product sourcing and distribution; profitability; customer feedback and evaluation methods; promotion and retailing campaign development; and applications to specific domestic and international consumer markets.
  • Consumer Services and Advocacy.
    (NEW) A program that focuses on providing end-use advice and representational services to individuals and groups within a variety of settings, and the analytical and research techniques needed to protect consumers from unsafe, unreliable, and/or unhealthy products and services. Includes instruction in consumer advocacy, family management systems, ecological impacts of consumption practices, and analyzing and testing product quality and safety.
  • FAMILY AND CONSUMER SCIENCES/HUMAN SCIENCES.
    Instructional programs that focus on the human interface with the physical, social, emotional, and intellectual environments and the developmental stages and needs of individuals in the interrelated spheres of family, workplace, and community. Note ( This broad field was formerly known as Home Economics and Human Ecology and includes the postsecondary programs of the CIP Series 20., Vocational Home Economics.
  • Facilities Planning and Management.
    (NEW) A program that focuses on strategic workplace and facility planning and that prepares individuals to function as facility and event managers and workplace consultants. Includes instruction in the principles of aesthetic and functional design; environmental psychology and organizational behavior; real estate planning; principles of occupational health and safety; event planning and management; operations management; and applicable regulatory and policy issues.
  • Family Resource Management Studies, General.
    A general program that focuses on the design and implementation of policies and processes contributing to successful individual and family resource management. Includes instruction in financial goal-setting and strategies; household income, assets, and debt management; preventing and resolving financial difficulties; and the use of relevant public resources.
  • Family Systems.
    A program that focuses on the family as a social unit in its developmental, dynamic, comparative, and structural aspects, and the significance of the family as a system that impacts individuals and society. Includes instruction in related principles of sociology, psychology, behavioral sciences, and the humanities.
  • Family and Community Services.
    A program that focuses on the development and implementation of public, private, and voluntary support services for individuals, families, and localities and that prepares individuals to function in a variety of occupations promoting family life, and family/community development. Includes instruction in family systems, human development, social services, community social and economic development, social policy, voluntary sector activities, and outreach and community education. (Moved from 19.0301)
  • Family and Community Studies.
    (Moved, Report under 19.0707)
  • Family and Consumer Economics and Related Services, Other.
    Any instructional program in family and consumer economics and related services not listed above.