| Sumario: | The article reports on the growing use of Associate's degree in several American institutions for higher education, to mark students' successful completion of a two-year course of study in a four-year college or university in the U.S. In the report published by the American Council on Education in April 1956, almost 25 percent of the country's accredited institutions for higher education presented the Associate's degree to more than 14,314 students in 1954-1955. The said degree had been widely used in colleges and universities that were situated in 43 states across the country.
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