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Online Learner Profiles: Owen

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Guide to Online Education > Online Education In-Depth > Meet Real Online Students > Owen, Master of Business Administration

"I didn't pay attention to her initially," the 38-year old says of his mother's advice. "I learned later she was right."

Owen, a recent graduate of Indiana Wesleyan University where he earned his Master of Business Administration degree, is very glad he listened to his mom. Earning his degree not only made his mother very proud, it brought immediate rewards.

He had matured in his previous position with a global investment firm and wanted to move into business development. In jockeying for the new job, he indicated that he was pursuing a degree. The fact that he was an MBA candidate put him over the top, he believes.

He got the job, relocated from the West Coast to Georgia and joined a team of three that opened a regional office for his company. And he did it all while going to school on-line.

"Neither of my parents went to college. Though," he marvels, "they were pretty successful without credentials."

He earned his bachelor's in Accounting from the University of Liberia in 1988. Still his mother always wanted him to get a graduate degree. He did not even consider going straight to grad school.

"I was young. I wasn't focused on going back to school. I had a decent job for the time." His mother made him promise. Yet he didn't make plans to fulfill that promise until he was married with a family.

"It [the degree] earned me a sizable salary increase and bonus," he says.

He made the decision to return to school on-line as opposed to in a traditional classroom setting so that he could remain a part of daily family life.

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