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Overview: Titles should be capitalized when attached to an individual's name, or where the position/office is a globally unique title that is the subject itself, and the term is the actual title or conventional translation thereof (not a description or rewording). Titles should not be capitalized when being used generically.
Wikipedia avoids unnecessary capitalization.In English, capitalization is primarily needed for proper names, acronyms, and for the first letter of a sentence. [a] Wikipedia relies on sources to determine what is conventionally capitalized; only words and phrases that are consistently capitalized in a substantial majority of independent, reliable sources are capitalized in Wikipedia.
Do not capitalize the second or subsequent words in an article title, unless the title is a proper name. For multiword page titles, one should leave the second and subsequent words in lowercase unless the title phrase is a proper name that would always occur capitalized , even mid-sentence.
The titles of articles, chapters, songs, episodes, storylines, research papers and other short works instead take double quotation marks. Italics are not used for major religious works (the Bible, the Quran, the Talmud). Many of these titles should also be in title case.
Yes. An "associate degree" is a category, not a specific degree, a descriptive level of degree, not the degree itself. A specific degree, such as "Bachelor of Arts", or even more specifically "Bachelor of Science in Computer Science", is the title of the specific degree itself, and as a title is usually capitalized.
Much of WP:Manual of Style/Capital letters#Composition titles should merge into WP:Manual of Style/Titles#Capitalization, with just a summary of key points being retained at MOSCAPS, and an even more compressed version at the main MOS page. We have these topical subpages for the express purpose of serving as "for more information" loci, with ...
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And Marbassett's position that something like "Lord Mayor of London" must be capitalized isn't how we do things either; the article about the title/position itself is capitalized, because it is the subject, in a words-as-word manner, and it's capitalized when attached to someone's name, but not otherwise (cf. Talk:List of mayors of Birmingham# ...