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Considering online learning? This 40-year-old married, state government employee who is getting his M.B.A. online at Aspen University says wholeheartedly, "Go for it and don't let another year go by!"
Name: Abner
Age: 40
Marital Status: Married
Career Interests: Management
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School: Aspen University
Target: M.B.A., 2009
Abner hopes to advance his career and make himself more marketable in a rapidly changing business world by pursuing a graduate degree while working full-time.
"I believe my degrees will help me survive and adapt in the future," he says. Like many online students, Abner has taken advantage of the great flexibility that distance learning provides to further an education begun on a traditional campus. He amassed 102.5 credits, earning his first degree - an associate of arts degree in liberal studies - in 1992 from a traditional brick-and-mortal school, Cypress College, after attending part-time over an eight year period.
In the years that followed, Abner supplemented his education with courses from a variety of institutions, including 18 credits through the University of Iowa's distance Bachelor of Liberal Studies program. In March 2005, he enrolled in California Coast University, a nationally-accredited distance learning institution that caters to adult students who are seeking to advance their careers.
He was able to transfer in most of his prior college credits, and quickly graduated with his Bachelor of Science in Management in December 2006.
Not one to rest on his laurels, Abner has wasted no time moving on to his next degree, an M.B.A. from Aspen University, nationally-accredited and based in Denver, Colorado, that he hopes to complete in 2009.
He says, "The job market is changing rapidly, and the only way to make it is via education." In his particular department, Workforce Development, in order to qualify for either management positions or higher-level positions in other government agencies, he needs an advanced degree: a master's degree.
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