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Penn Foster Career School is a comprehensive institution offering a wide variety of distance education vocational programs and more. Career diploma programs at Penn Foster are offered in more than 50 areas such as carpentry, drafting, book keeping, desktop publishing and design and many more. certificate programs at Penn Foster are offered in areas such as accounting, medical coding and billing, child psychology and more.

Each program offered at Penn Foster Career Center is comprised of an individual curriculum. Through the medical transcription diploma program, Penn Foster students will have the opportunity to gain knowledge in areas such as anatomy, physiology, medical terminology, law and ethics of medicine and more. Through the dental assistant training program, students will have the opportunity to gain knowledge in areas such as preventative dentistry, nutrition, radiology, dental terminology and anatomy and more.

Many of the programs offered at Penn Foster Career School, prepare students for careers in fields that are growing. According to the United States Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, "the employment of medical transcriptionists is expected to grow 14 percent from 2006 to 2016," which is considered "faster than the average." Similarly the employment of dental assistants, accountants, and many other professions are expected to grow.

In addition to the diverse range of programs offered at Penn Foster, students can also take also enjoy the flexibility and convenience of completing their program from their own home or elsewhere. Programs can be completed online, in print or both.

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Penn Foster students can begin their program of choice at any time; enrollment is continuous.

According to the United States Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, "the employment of accountants and auditors is expected to grow 18% from 2006 to 2016," which is considered "faster than the average."

Penn Foster is comprised of the Penn Foster Career School, Penn Foster College and Penn Foster high school.

Penn Foster offers students with the benefit of a variety of career services and resources.

Penn Foster has been offering various programs for more than 100 years.

The Penn Foster Career School's headquarters is located in the city of Scranton in Pennsylvania.
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