Nush Ahmed, 22, said she was “stubborn” when she went against her parents’ wishes and chose to attend a career technical program 800 miles from home instead of enrolling in a traditional four-year college nearby.
Her parents, who live in Buffalo, New York, and immigrated from Bangladesh, said they believed a bachelor’s degree was the only path to success.
But Ahmed insisted. She’s one of a growing number of high school graduates turning to technical schools over two or four-year colleges at a time of spiraling student debt and new incentives for vocational education.
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