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Liz Simmons is an education staff writer at Forbes Advisor. She has written about higher education and career development for various online publications since 2016. She earned a master’s degree in ...

We independently review everything we recommend. We may make money from the links on our site. Learn more› By Thorin Klosowski We’ve added backup instructions for Windows 11 and verified the ...