Draughons Junior Colleges Bowling Green campus has seen its enrollment more than double during the past two years as more students seek increased job guarantees. I worked as a secretary for a road construction company and that was a seasonal job, but I need something that is going to be around all the time, said Beth Axley, 29, of Scottsville, who is majoring in computer network technology at Draughons. The private college with its main campus in Nashville, Tenn., has a 75 percent to 78 percent retention rate, an 89 percent job placement rate and an almost 100 percent placement rate for students in its medical assistance program, Director Melva Hale said. Our students are not just coming to get an education, she said. Theyre coming to get a job. State schools are not held accountable for retention and job placement. That is one great advantage of a private school. Probably a 10th of our (student) population has a bachelors degree and two have a masters degree. They have a degree, but they dont have a skill. A skill is exactly what retired Army sergeant Wilfredo Rivera, 42, of Bowling Green is seeking at Draughons, he said. I wanted something more focused, Rivera said. I wanted something that is straight to the point. When you go to a traditional four-year college, you cant do that. They want you to learn all these other things, and I didnt want to do that. Draughons students must complete an internship of at least 90 hours in a related field before they graduate. Education at Draughons is not just knowledge from a book, Hale said. It is hands-on experience. A lot of our instructors are people in the business world who work in the area they teach. Our teachers are resources for jobs. Draughons, which started in Bowling Green in 1989, offers a variety of associate degrees and diploma programs in business, medicine, broadcasting, law and criminal justice. Enrollment for the fall semester, which starts Sept. 11, has passed the 300 mark an increase Hale attributes to an agreement between Draughons and Western Kentucky University, she said. The agreement allows Draughons students to use Westerns libraries and transfer all basic education course credits to Western if they decide to further their education. Elmer Gray, Westerns graduate studies dean, likes the agreement.