4.3 Higher Education

By 2030, ensure equal access for all women and men to affordable and quality technical, vocational and tertiary education, including university

United States

Resources

• Free online courses with certificates: https://alison.com/ 

• Free classes and certificates. Research the industry first to see if certificate is relevant. https://www.classcentral.com/ 

• Rate My Professor https://www.ratemyprofessors.com/ 

• Affordable way to complete transfer credits:https://www.sophia.org/transfer-credits/ 

• Applying to college resource list https://www.reddit.com/r/ApplyingToCollege/wiki/index/ 

• Psychology PhD resources https://www.reddit.com/r/gradadmissions/comments/14g82il/resource_list_for_applying_to_phdmasters_grad/ 

Tech Field 

• Owlsec- tech field advice. https://owlsec.io/ 

• Free coding lessons: https://www.freecodecamp.org/ 

• Tryhackme- gamified cyber security lessons https://tryhackme.com/ 

• Hack the box- cyber security resource https://www.hackthebox.com/ 

• TransTech Social: Resources for trans folx interested in working in the digital tech sector. https://transtechsocial.org/ 

• Black Girls Code: Teaching Black girls skills for creating and developing digital technologies. https://wearebgc.org/ 

• Income-Based Repayment IT program https://meritamerica.org/career-tracks/it-support/ 

POTENTIAL SOLUTIONS

Rules

• Make college free

Information Flows

• Advocate and spread awareness for competency based education programs. Spread awareness to schools and industries that require college degrees. 

• Make a resource list of free, online body-double groups to help people stay on track with their education goals. 

• Make a resource list of community colleges that have dorms. This is for people who need to move out but aren’t ready to go to university.