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Editorial Process & Standards

At “My Degree Guide,” we are dedicated to delivering precise, current, and comprehensive insights to assist students in navigating their educational and career paths. Our editorial approach is focused on providing content that is practical and relevant to the needs of today’s students.

Core Values

  1. Editorial Excellence: Our editorial processes are guided by a commitment to excellence. Our content passes through multiple stages of review, ensuring it adheres to our high standards for quality, style, and clarity.
  2. Comprehensive Fact-Checking and Accuracy: We engage in thorough fact-checking, using reliable sources such as the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics and the National Center for Education Statistics, as well as numerous other reputable sources. We prioritize primary sources and provide direct links for in-depth student exploration. In instances where information does not meet our standards, we promptly make corrections.
  3. Diversity of Perspectives: Recognizing the diverse needs of our audience, we strive to include a variety of viewpoints in our content. This includes insights from students, educators, and industry professionals, ensuring a well-rounded and inclusive approach to the information we provide.
  4. Knowledge and Expertise: Our team boasts a diverse array of professionals, such as college professors, K-12 educators, and both current and former online students who provide invaluable first-hand insights. Additionally, our team is enriched by contributors from various other relevant fields. To discover more about the unique experiences and expertise of our contributors, we invite you to explore their profiles here.

Our Editorial Process

  1. Robust Research and Writing: Our writers and contributors begin with in-depth research using our trusted sources. They craft content that is informative, engaging, and reflective of the current educational landscape.
  2. Multi-Tiered Review System: Following content creation, our multi-tiered review system involves numerous editorial staff who scrutinize the content for accuracy, relevance, and clarity. In instances where information does not meet our standards, we promptly make corrections.
  3. Continuous Updates and Revisions: The educational and career fields are constantly evolving. We regularly review and update our content to ensure it remains current and practical.
  4. Feedback and Community Engagement: We welcome and encourage feedback from our readers. This feedback is integral to our continuous improvement process, helping us to refine and enhance our content and editorial process. You can contact us here.

At “My Degree Guide,” our editorial process is the cornerstone of our commitment to providing our audience with trustworthy, insightful, and valuable information. We are dedicated to maintaining and continually improving these high standards to serve the needs of students and educators alike.

Privacy Policy

Protecting your private information is our priority.

This Statement of Privacy applies to https://www.mydegreeguide.com and MyDegreeGuide.com and governs data collection and usage. For the purposes of this Privacy Policy, unless otherwise noted, all references to MyDegreeGuide.com include https://www.mydegreeguide.com and My Degree Guide. The My Degree Guide website is a College and Degree Informational site. By using the My Degree Guide website, you consent to the data practices described in this statement, as well as our Terms of Use.   

Collection of your Personal Information 

In order to better provide you with products and services offered on our Site, My Degree Guide may collect personally identifiable information, such as your name, mailing address, email address, phone number, or academic information. 

My Degree Guide may also collect anonymous demographic information, which is not unique to you, such as your age and gender. 

Please keep in mind that if you directly disclose personally identifiable information or personally sensitive data through My Degree Guide’s public message boards, this information may be collected and used by others. 

We do not collect any personal information about you unless you voluntarily provide it to us. However, you may be required to provide certain personal information to us when you elect to use certain products or services available on the Site. These may include: (a) registering for an account on our Site; (b) requesting information from schools; (c) signing up for special offers from selected third parties; (d) sending us an email message; (e) submitting your credit card or other payment information when ordering and purchasing products and services on our Site. To wit, we will use your information for, but not limited to, communicating with you in relation to services and/or products you have requested from us. We also may gather additional personal or non-personal information in the future. 

Use of your Personal Information

My Degree Guide collects and uses your personal information to operate its website(s) and deliver the services you have requested.   

My Degree Guide may also use your personally identifiable information to inform you of other products or services available from My Degree Guide and its affiliates. 

Tracking User Behavior 

My Degree Guide may keep track of the websites and pages our users visit within My Degree Guide, in order to determine what My Degree Guide services are the most popular. This data is used to deliver customized content and advertising within My Degree Guide to customers whose behavior indicates that they are interested in a particular subject area. 

Automatically Collected Information 

Information about your computer hardware and software may be automatically collected by My Degree Guide. This information can include: your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times and referring website addresses. This information is used for the operation of the service, to maintain quality of the service, and to provide general statistics regarding use of the My Degree Guide website. 

This data is used to improve visitor experience, like offering more relevant content. We also utilize cookies to anonymously collect data that helps us optimize the website. The type of data collected includes, but is not limited to your browser type and version, your operating system, and your IP address.

By using MyDegreeGuide.com, you acknowledge and agree that information is automatically collected and may be shared with schools and third parties for the purpose of offering information about degrees and programs, as well as other educational services and related products.

User-Submitted Information

User-submitted information is data that a website visitor voluntarily inputs and submits via forms. This data may include contact information such as name, phone, email, and mailing address, as well as additional information needed to match visitors with schools, educational programs, products, or services. Information that is voluntarily submitted by users is collected, stored and shared with third-party advertisers and schools as needed to provide site visitors with school and program information.

By submitting information on MyDegreeGuide.com, you authorize MyDegreeGuide.com, third-party advertisers, and schools, to contact you regarding educational products and services in accordance with all applicable laws via email, mail, phone, or text messages. Further, you give MyDegreeGuide.com and third-party advertisers and schools, the right to contact you, and give up any rights afforded to you by applicable laws and Do Not Call.

Sharing Information with Third Parties 

My Degree Guide may, from time to time, contact you on behalf of external business partners about a particular offering that may be of interest to you. In those cases, your unique personally identifiable information (e-mail, name, address, telephone number) is transferred to the third party. My Degree Guide may share data with trusted partners to help perform statistical analysis, contact you, send you email or postal mail, provide customer support, or arrange for deliveries. All such third parties are prohibited from using your personal information except to provide these services to My Degree Guide, and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information. 

My Degree Guide may disclose your personal information, without notice, if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to: (a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on My Degree Guide or the site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of My Degree Guide; and/or (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of My Degree Guide, or the public. 

Use of Cookies 

The My Degree Guide website may use “cookies” to help you personalize your online experience. A cookie is a text file that is placed on your hard disk by a web page server. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you, and can only be read by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you. By using MyDegreeGuide.com, you acknowledge that we utilize cookies and consent to our use of cookies.

One of the primary purposes of cookies is to provide a convenience feature to save you time. The purpose of a cookie is to tell the Web server that you have returned to a specific page. For example, if you personalize My Degree Guide pages, or register with My Degree Guide site or services, a cookie helps My Degree Guide to recall your specific information on subsequent visits. This simplifies the process of recording your personal information, such as billing addresses, shipping addresses, and so on. When you return to the same My Degree Guide website, the information you previously provided can be retrieved, so you can easily use the My Degree Guide features that you customized. 

Advertising cookies are anonymous and don’t contain information that is personally identifiable, but cookies do allow advertisers to make advertisements that are more relevant to a visitor’s interests. Advertising cookies are referred to as third-party cookies because they track navigation and publish advertisements on behalf of third parties.

MyDegreeGuide.com, as well as third-party service providers, may use cookies for web analytics like demographic and other anonymous data for website optimization and other analysis to ensure the correctness and accuracy of the data that is submitted. MyDegreeGuide.com’s use of cookies is used, but not limited to optimizing advertisements, visitor experiences, and relevance.

Some of our advertising partners may also use cookies and web beacons on our site.

These third-party ad servers or ad networks use technology to serve advertisements and links that appear on MyDegreeGuide.com and send them directly to your browser. They automatically receive your IP address when this occurs. Other technologies (such as Cookies, JavaScript, or Web Beacons) may also be used by the third-party ad networks to measure the effectiveness of their advertisements and/or to personalize the advertising content that you see.

You should consult the respective privacy policies of these third-party ad servers for more detailed information on their practices, as well as for instructions about how to opt-out of certain practices.

If you wish to disable cookies or remove them, you may do so through your individual browser settings at any time. More detailed information about cookie management with specific web browsers can be found at the browsers’ respective websites. You can also opt-out of receiving personalized advertisements from third party advertisers and advertising networks who belong to the Network Advertising Initiative or who adhere to the Digital Advertising Alliance’s Self-Regulatory Principles for Online Behavioral Advertising by visiting their websites. You can view the MyDegreeGuide.com Cookie Policy here.

Links 

This website contains links to other sites. Please be aware that we are not responsible for the content or privacy practices of such other sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of any other site that collects personally identifiable information.   

Children Under Thirteen 

My Degree Guide does not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under the age of thirteen. If you are under the age of thirteen, you must ask your parent or guardian for permission to use this website. 

E-mail Communications 

From time to time, My Degree Guide, as well as third-party advertisers and schools, may contact you via email for the purpose of providing announcements, promotional offers, alerts, confirmations, surveys, and/or other general communication. In order to improve our Services, we may receive a notification when you open an email from My Degree Guide or click on a link therein. 

If you would like to stop receiving marketing or promotional communications via email, you may opt out of such communications by clicking on the unsubscribe link contained in the email. This will remove you from additional mailings from that party.

External Data Storage Sites 

We may store your data on servers provided by third party hosting vendors with whom we have contracted. 

Changes to this Statement 

My Degree Guide reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to change this Privacy Policy from time to time. The most current version of this policy will supersede all previous versions. My Degree Guide encourages you to periodically review the Privacy Policy to stay informed of our updates. Your continued use of the Site and/or Services available through this Site after such modifications will constitute your: (a) acknowledgment of the modified Privacy Policy; and (b) agreement to abide and be bound by that Policy.   

Updated December 2, 2023

Terms of Use

Terms and Conditions 

Agreement between User and https://www.mydegreeguide.com 

Welcome to https://www.mydegreeguide.com. The https://www.mydegreeguide.com website (the “Site”) is comprised of various web pages operated by MyDegreeGuide.com (“My Degree Guide”). https://www.mydegreeguide.com is offered to you conditioned on your acceptance without modification of the terms, conditions, and notices contained herein (the “Terms”). Your use of https://www.mydegreeguide.com constitutes your agreement to all such Terms. Please read these terms carefully, and keep a copy of them for your reference.   

https://www.mydegreeguide.com is a College & Degree Informational Site. 

MyDegreeGuide.com specializes in providing in-depth educational guides on a wide-range of topics including, but not limited to, college degree programs, schools, online courses, scholarships, financial aid, and study guides. 

Privacy 

Your use of https://www.mydegreeguide.com is subject to My Degree Guide’s Privacy Policy. Please review our Privacy Policy, which also governs the Site and informs users of our data collection practices. 

Electronic Communications 

Visiting https://www.mydegreeguide.com or sending emails to My Degree Guide constitutes electronic communications. You consent to receive electronic communications and you agree that all agreements, notices, disclosures and other communications that we provide to you electronically, via email and on the Site, satisfy any legal requirement that such communications be in writing. 

Children Under Thirteen 

My Degree Guide does not knowingly collect, either online or offline, personal information from persons under the age of thirteen. If you are under 18, you may use https://www.mydegreeguide.com only with permission of a parent or guardian. 

Links to Third Party Sites/Third Party Services 

https://www.mydegreeguide.com may contain links to other websites (“Linked Sites”). The Linked Sites are not under the control of My Degree Guide and My Degree Guide is not responsible for the contents of any Linked Site, including without limitation any link contained in a Linked Site, or any changes or updates to a Linked Site. My Degree Guide is providing these links to you only as a convenience, and the inclusion of any link does not imply endorsement by My Degree Guide of the site or any association with its operators. 

Certain services made available via https://www.mydegreeguide.com are delivered by third party sites and organizations. By using any product, service or functionality originating from the https://www.mydegreeguide.com domain, you hereby acknowledge and consent that My Degree Guide may share such information and data with any third party with whom My Degree Guide has a contractual relationship to provide the requested product, service or functionality on behalf of https://www.mydegreeguide.com users and customers. 

No Unlawful or Prohibited Use/Intellectual Property

You are granted a non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable license to access and use https://www.mydegreeguide.com strictly in accordance with these terms of use. As a condition of your use of the Site, you warrant to My Degree Guide that you will not use the Site for any purpose that is unlawful or prohibited by these Terms. You may not use the Site in any manner which could damage, disable, overburden, or impair the Site or interfere with any other party’s use and enjoyment of the Site. You may not obtain or attempt to obtain any materials or information through any means not intentionally made available or provided for through the Site. 

All content included as part of the Service, such as text, graphics, logos, images, as well as the compilation thereof, and any software used on the Site, is the property of My Degree Guide or its suppliers and protected by copyright and other laws that protect intellectual property and proprietary rights. You agree to observe and abide by all copyright and other proprietary notices, legends or other restrictions contained in any such content and will not make any changes thereto.  

You will not modify, publish, transmit, reverse engineer, participate in the transfer or sale, create derivative works, or in any way exploit any of the content, in whole or in part, found on the Site. My Degree Guide content is not for resale. Your use of the Site does not entitle you to make any unauthorized use of any protected content, and in particular you will not delete or alter any proprietary rights or attribution notices in any content. You will use protected content solely for your personal use, and will make no other use of the content without the express written permission of My Degree Guide and the copyright owner. You agree that you do not acquire any ownership rights in any protected content. We do not grant you any licenses, express or implied, to the intellectual property of My Degree Guide or our licensors except as expressly authorized by these Terms. 

Trademarks

My Degree Guide, our logo, and any other marks of any kind used on our sites are trademarks of My Degree Guide and are protected by trademark laws.

Use of Communication Services 

The Site may contain bulletin board services, chat areas, news groups, forums, communities, personal web pages, calendars, and/or other message or communication facilities designed to enable you to communicate with the public at large or with a group (collectively, “Communication Services”). You agree to use the Communication Services only to post, send and receive messages and material that are proper and related to the particular Communication Service. 

By way of example, and not as a limitation, you agree that when using a Communication Service, you will not: defame, abuse, harass, stalk, threaten or otherwise violate the legal rights (such as rights of privacy and publicity) of others; publish, post, upload, distribute or disseminate any inappropriate, profane, defamatory, infringing, obscene, indecent or unlawful topic, name, material or information; upload files that contain software or other material protected by intellectual property laws (or by rights of privacy of publicity) unless you own or control the rights thereto or have received all necessary consents; upload files that contain viruses, corrupted files, or any other similar software or programs that may damage the operation of another’s computer; advertise or offer to sell or buy any goods or services for any business purpose, unless such Communication Service specifically allows such messages; conduct or forward surveys, contests, pyramid schemes or chain letters; download any file posted by another user of a Communication Service that you know, or reasonably should know, cannot be legally distributed in such manner; falsify or delete any author attributions, legal or other proper notices or proprietary designations or labels of the origin or source of software or other material contained in a file that is uploaded; restrict or inhibit any other user from using and enjoying the Communication Services; violate any code of conduct or other guidelines which may be applicable for any particular Communication Service; harvest or otherwise collect information about others, including e-mail addresses, without their consent; violate any applicable laws or regulations. 

My Degree Guide has no obligation to monitor the Communication Services. However, My Degree Guide reserves the right to review materials posted to a Communication Service and to remove any materials in its sole discretion. My Degree Guide reserves the right to terminate your access to any or all of the Communication Services at any time without notice for any reason whatsoever. 

My Degree Guide reserves the right at all times to disclose any information as necessary to satisfy any applicable law, regulation, legal process or governmental request, or to edit, refuse to post or to remove any information or materials, in whole or in part, in My Degree Guide’s sole discretion. 

Always use caution when giving out any personally identifying information about yourself or your children in any Communication Service. My Degree Guide does not control or endorse the content, messages or information found in any Communication Service and, therefore, My Degree Guide specifically disclaims any liability with regard to the Communication Services and any actions resulting from your participation in any Communication Service. Managers and hosts are not authorized My Degree Guide spokespersons, and their views do not necessarily reflect those of My Degree Guide. 

Materials uploaded to a Communication Service may be subject to posted limitations on usage, reproduction and/or dissemination. You are responsible for adhering to such limitations if you upload the materials. 

Materials Provided to https://www.mydegreeguide.com or Posted on Any My Degree Guide Web Page 

My Degree Guide does not claim ownership of the materials you provide to https://www.mydegreeguide.com (including feedback and suggestions) or post, upload, input or submit to any My Degree Guide Site or our associated services (collectively “Submissions”). However, by posting, uploading, inputting, providing or submitting your Submission you are granting My Degree Guide, our affiliated companies and necessary sublicensees permission to use your Submission in connection with the operation of their Internet businesses including, without limitation, the rights to: copy, distribute, transmit, publicly display, publicly perform, reproduce, edit, translate and reformat your Submission; and to publish your name in connection with your Submission. 

No compensation will be paid with respect to the use of your Submission, as provided herein. My Degree Guide is under no obligation to post or use any Submission you may provide and may remove any Submission at any time in My Degree Guide’s sole discretion. 

By posting, uploading, inputting, providing or submitting your Submission you warrant and represent that you own or otherwise control all of the rights to your Submission as described in this section including, without limitation, all the rights necessary for you to provide, post, upload, input or submit the Submissions. 

International Users 

The Service is controlled, operated and administered by My Degree Guide from our offices within the USA. If you access the Service from a location outside the USA, you are responsible for compliance with all local laws. You agree that you will not use the My Degree Guide Content accessed through https://www.mydegreeguide.com in any country or in any manner prohibited by any applicable laws, restrictions or regulations. 

Indemnification 

You agree to indemnify, defend and hold harmless My Degree Guide, its officers, directors, employees, agents and third parties, for any losses, costs, liabilities and expenses (including reasonable attorney’s fees) relating to or arising out of your use of or inability to use the Site or services, any user postings made by you, your violation of any terms of this Agreement or your violation of any rights of a third party, or your violation of any applicable laws, rules or regulations. My Degree Guide reserves the right, at its own cost, to assume the exclusive defense and control of any matter otherwise subject to indemnification by you, in which event you will fully cooperate with My Degree Guide in asserting any available defenses. 

Arbitration 

In the event the parties are not able to resolve any dispute between them arising out of or concerning these Terms and Conditions, or any provisions hereof, whether in contract, tort, or otherwise at law or in equity for damages or any other relief, then such dispute shall be resolved only by final and binding arbitration pursuant to the Federal Arbitration Act, conducted by a single neutral arbitrator and administered by the American Arbitration Association, or a similar arbitration service selected by the parties, in a location mutually agreed upon by the parties. The arbitrator’s award shall be final, and judgment may be entered upon it in any court having jurisdiction. In the event that any legal or equitable action, proceeding or arbitration arises out of or concerns these Terms and Conditions, the prevailing party shall be entitled to recover its costs and reasonable attorney’s fees. The parties agree to arbitrate all disputes and claims in regards to these Terms and Conditions or any disputes arising as a result of these Terms and Conditions, whether directly or indirectly, including Tort claims that are a result of these Terms and Conditions. The parties agree that the Federal Arbitration Act governs the interpretation and enforcement of this provision. The entire dispute, including the scope and enforceability of this arbitration provision shall be determined by the Arbitrator. This arbitration provision shall survive the termination of these Terms and Conditions.  

Class Action Waiver 

Any arbitration under these Terms and Conditions will take place on an individual basis; class arbitrations and class/representative/collective actions are not permitted. The parties agree that a party may bring claims against the other only in each’s individual capacity, and not as a plaintiff or class member in any putative class, collective and / or representative proceeding, such as in the form of a private attorney general action against the other. Further, unless both you and My Degree Guide agree otherwise, the arbitrator may not consolidate more than one person’s claims, and may not otherwise preside over any form of a representative or class proceeding. 

Liability Disclaimer 

The information, software, products, and services included in or available through the site may include inaccuracies or typographical errors. Changes are periodically added to the information herein. Mydegreeguide.com and/or its suppliers may make improvements and/or changes in the site at any time.

Mydegreeguide.com and/or its suppliers make no representations about the suitability, reliability, availability, timeliness, and accuracy of the information, software, products, services and related graphics contained on the site for any purpose. To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, all such information, software, products, services and related graphics are provided “as is” without warranty or condition of any kind. Mydegreeguide.com and/or its suppliers hereby disclaim all warranties and conditions with regard to this information, software, products, services and related graphics, including all implied warranties or conditions of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title and non-infringement.

To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, in no event shall mydegreeguide.com and/or its suppliers be liable for any direct, indirect, punitive, incidental, special, consequential damages or any damages whatsoever including, without limitation, damages for loss of use, data or profits, arising out of or in any way connected with the use or performance of the site, with the delay or inability to use the site or related services, the provision of or failure to provide services, or for any information, software, products, services and related graphics obtained through the site, or otherwise arising out of the use of the site, whether based on contract, tort, negligence, strict liability or otherwise, even if mydegreeguide.com or any of its suppliers has been advised of the possibility of damages. Because some states/jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion or limitation of liability for consequential or incidental damages, the above limitation may not apply to you. If you are dissatisfied with any portion of the site, or with any of these terms of use, your sole and exclusive remedy is to discontinue using the site.

Termination/Access Restriction

My Degree Guide reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to terminate your access to the Site and the related services or any portion thereof at any time, without notice. To the maximum extent permitted by law, this agreement is governed by the laws of the State of Texas and you hereby consent to the exclusive jurisdiction and venue of courts in Texas in all disputes arising out of or relating to the use of the Site. Use of the Site is unauthorized in any jurisdiction that does not give effect to all provisions of these Terms, including, without limitation, this section. 

You agree that no joint venture, partnership, employment, or agency relationship exists between you and My Degree Guide as a result of this agreement or use of the Site. My Degree Guide’s performance of this agreement is subject to existing laws and legal process, and nothing contained in this agreement is in derogation of My Degree Guide’s right to comply with governmental, court and law enforcement requests or requirements relating to your use of the Site or information provided to or gathered by My Degree Guide with respect to such use. If any part of this agreement is determined to be invalid or unenforceable pursuant to applicable law including, but not limited to, the warranty disclaimers and liability limitations set forth above, then the invalid or unenforceable provision will be deemed superseded by a valid, enforceable provision that most closely matches the intent of the original provision and the remainder of the agreement shall continue in effect. 

Unless otherwise specified herein, this agreement constitutes the entire agreement between the user and My Degree Guide with respect to the Site and it supersedes all prior or contemporaneous communications and proposals, whether electronic, oral or written, between the user and My Degree Guide with respect to the Site. A printed version of this agreement and of any notice given in electronic form shall be admissible in judicial or administrative proceedings based upon or relating to this agreement to the same extent and subject to the same conditions as other business documents and records originally generated and maintained in printed form. It is the express wish to the parties that this agreement and all related documents be written in English. 

My Degree Guide hereby informs you that MY DEGREE GUIDE SITE IS PROVIDED ON “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE” BASIS. YOUR USE OF THIS SITE IS AT YOUR SOLE RISK.

Changes to Terms 

My Degree Guide reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to change the Terms under which https://www.mydegreeguide.com is offered. The most current version of the Terms will supersede all previous versions. My Degree Guide encourages you to periodically review the Terms to stay informed of our updates. 

Contact Information

If you have any questions, please contact us.

Updated January 11, 2021