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Does the degree will increase your potential salary?

If that's the case maybe it's not worth it to go to the university unless you really wanted to have a degree. I asked about the potential salary since I am a Registered Nurse.
In Nursing we have the registered Practical Nursing ( which is 2 years in college with Diploma, and the licensure exam to be registered) and Bachelors of Science in Nursing to become a registered nurse ( which is 4 years in university and licensure exam to be registered). Registered Practical Nurse, when I looked up before, makes $21-29 Cdn dollars per hour while Registered Nurses makes $29-$40 Cdn dollars and more if you have your Masters, or if you are a clinical specialist, etc. So there is pay salary difference there.
-If you are a registered practical nurse and wanted to get Bachelors to become a registered nurse, you can always do the Bridging Courses in a University which usually takes 3 years.
-Now about OSAP, you have to contact them if you are planning to go to University. You can continue borrowing from when you go to University. Since in the end of the a year, they send you letter, right? saying if are done school or are you going back to school. So if they know you are still a full-time student you may not pay right away.

Well, it's not precisely 'social worker' as my career - as a college graduate, I can only be a 'social service worker' which is slightly different. We just always refer to ourselves as social workers.


Technically, as a social service worker, most of our jobs aren't called 'social service worker' jobs - we will more likely be hired as a 'case worker' or 'counselor' or whatnot.

I'm not planning anything anymore, as I asked a student who took my program and went to get the degree afterward, and she says you can't get advanced standing - you have to do a full three and a half years of the four years just to get the BSW, since very few credits actually transfer over. The university that shares a campus with my college is opening up a social work department in September 2013, where we can get advanced standing since they're working it perfectly with the college's social service work program - but that'll be over a year after I graduate from college, and my godfather is not willing to wait a year (if he pays for my university, it has to be September 2012, and I have to get advanced standing, so it won't work out).

Two year college diploma. razz But yeah, I hear from lots of people who went to universities that they wish they'd gone to college instead. My aunt did university back in the day, and she's in college now because she couldn't do much with her degree. I was considering it when I wrote this thread, but I decided against it afterward for a number of reasons - one now being that I'm moving out and getting a place with my best friends (an engaged couple) and my boyfriend in a few months, which means that I can't afford even more debt.

We don't have degrees in college here, but the education is similar. College is more applied learning though, where you get experience - so university students usually have a lot more education in their field, but college students have more experience in the field. I can still become a registered social service worker (the college version of a 'social worker') with a college diploma, I don't need a university degree in social work.

i am going to college in september.
my university has the Bachelor in Social Work as well as the Master's in social work. i've been told by countless people that you need a master's in social work to be considered a licensed social worker. it's hard to get into the bsw at my school, i know people who have tried coming from getting their ssw diploma in college and most of them got let into the school but into psychology or sociology instead of bsw.