Many years ago, before I can to my senses, I looked into s real HP degree (4 year) out of UN Las Vegas. Tuition was not cheap and I realized, since I was already a senior HP, what good would it do me? The lesser 2 year degrees you can learn from you tube and Khan University or coursea. The 2 year degrees are expensive and only so much can be done on line. At a plant at an outage HP's are coming from OJT Juniors, interns from local HP degree programs, kind of everyone and their brother want to be an HP. HP's are a sliver of the available jobs and limit you to nuclear plants. Others, like machinist, electricians, and even straight helpers are more numerous and not limited to just nuclear plants. If you goal is to get work, chose your vocation wisely and don't waste money on training programs the end you up with a job giving you two short 4 week outages a season twice a year.