My Career Key: An Online Masters Degree

Posted by Dan on June 6th, 2008

I am an employee in their mid 20’s.  I graduated from a traditional college in 2004 and have been involved in the workforce ever since.  I work and live in a major city so rent is expensive and transportation is completely reliant on a subway or bus.  I work 9 hours a day, commute an hour both ways, and like to exercise regularly.  Out of my 16 hour days, I don’t have much time for, well, anything. 

One of my goals is to earn a Masters or MBA to further my career.  It is an ambitious goal and one that is shared with many of America’s workforce, however, due to the inablity to get to a class or the financial stability to quit my job, it just isn’t feasable.   Over the past 6 months or so, I have slowly started to research tuition reimbursement, scholarships, and night school.  While looking for this information, I found an article referencing the Northeastern Online MBA program.  As I read, I found that not only did the Northeastern MBA program allow me to study completely online, it would allow me to earn an online degree that was flexible to my current schedule and lifestyle. 

Not content with just learning about the Northeastern Online MBA program, I started to look for more schools that offered an online masters degree or an online MBA degree program, to my surprise I found over 50 universities and colleges offering a variety of online programs, including Harvard University!

I have yet to fill out online applications or actually speak to a representative about the opportunity, but its clear to me that earning an online masters degree could be the key to increasing my income and job security.