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Degrees & Certificates

Explore your options and find the right program to help you achieve your goals.

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  • Accounting

    Associate of Applied Science
    Learn the fundamentals of business and personal accounting including bookkeeping, budgeting, account management, cost accounting, tax preparation and payroll. Transfer to a bachelor's program or start your career as an accounting or payroll clerk immediately.
  • Administrative Assistant

    Associate of Applied Science
    Learn the business fundamentals of records management, word processing techniques, office software, and other skills that keep an office functioning smoothly. Select an area of concentration such as bookkeeping, multimedia or supervisory management and apply what you learn during an internship at a local organization with guidance from instructors.
  • Agricultural Education

    Associate of Science
    Explore your passion for teaching with an agricultural education associate degree and help shape the next generation of agricultural workers and scientists. This is a liberal arts degree with designation (DWD).
  • Agriculture Business

    Associate of Applied Science
    Study foundational business, economic, finance, and marketing and communications principles related to agricultural businesses while learning about world population dynamics and issues related to food supply. Gain general agricultural knowledge and skills in livestock and crops, precision agriculture and information technology while getting hands-on experience as an employee intern in the agribusiness industry.
  • Study foundational business, economic, finance, and marketing and communications principles related to agricultural businesses while learning about world population dynamics and issues related to food supply. Gain general agricultural knowledge and skills in livestock and crops, precision agriculture and information technology while getting hands-on experience as an employee intern in the agribusiness industry. This is a liberal arts degree with designation (DWD).
  • Air Traffic Control

    Associate of Applied Science
    Jump start your air traffic career learning air traffic control language and procedures in the classroom. Take what you've learned into the state-of-the-art simulation lab at Aims, building your skills with hands-on experience using radar and non-radar simulators.
  • Allied Health Professional

    Associate of Applied Science
    This degree track offers five paths: study healthcare law and ethics, diseases, and pharmacology for medical assistants and customize your allied health professional coursework that matches your career goal. You can focus on becoming a medical clinical assistant, a nurse aide, a phlebotomist, a front office medical assistant or a sterile instrument technician.
  • Animal Science

    Associate of Applied Science
    Study global food systems, agricultural economics, animal anatomy, physiology, nutrition and health, housing, feeds and feeding, and live animal carcass evaluation with lecture and hands-on lab experiences. Elective courses may include agricultural management, finance, accounting and marketing.
  • Animal Science - Liberal Arts

    Associate of Science
    Study animal anatomy, animal physiology, livestock nutrition and health, housing, feeds and feeding with this associate of science degree. Learn about how livestock feeds global food systems, agricultural economics, and live animal carcass evaluation. This is a liberal arts degree with designation (DWD).
  • Animation

    Associate of Applied Science
    Learn the fundamentals of 2D and 3D animation techniques, from keyframing to creating characters and character poses and then tweening (creating images “in between” frames) poses together. Practice what you’ve learned by working in teams, explore business for creatives and begin building a portfolio and learn how to market yourself to potential employers.