What the General Studies Blog Covers
The general studies blog answers the questions that come before and after a ranking: what a general studies degree is, how it differs from the degrees it is often confused with, how credit moves into it, and what the people who finish one go on to do. Each post is built from public sources, federal definitions, state transfer rules and colleges' own catalogs, and links to every one of them.
The posts sit beside the general studies rankings, which score programs at each degree level on federal records, the state pages for associate and bachelor's degrees, and the career guides for jobs open to a degree in any field. When a post and a ranking touch the same question, the post explains it and the ranking shows the programs.
How General Studies Blog Posts Are Sourced
Every fact in a general studies blog post comes from a page we read and quote: a federal agency, a state higher education system, an accreditor, a professional association or the college that offers the degree. A figure that can't be traced to one of those doesn't go in. Program counts come from the same federal catalog the rankings use, and each post names the date the figures were read.
Posts are written for someone deciding on a degree, so they say plainly where a source stops. If no study compares two kinds of degree directly, a post won't claim one is better, and if a rule differs by state, it says which states it has checked.