Interested in Second Masters

[Navy_Vet1993]

What is your budget for those degrees you've listed? Most of them are Analytics, Data Science, is that the field you're looking to go into? I suggest any of the ones available with Coursera or Edx, the ones you have named seem good.  If you're looking for management, the MOOC's from Coursera/Edx are options as well...

I’m fine with spending up around 40k on the degree out of pocket, so long as it means a yearly salary increase that is comparable. I still have 8 months of GI Bill remaining and my job will pay for $6200 per year for tuition. So, all of these should be in the ballpark but some like UT Austin and Georgia Tech I would graduate debt-free but that is only a small consideration.

My goal is to pivot to big name management consulting from Operations Management in a mid-sized market. So, name and brand are very important.

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Hello Navy_Vet!

I graduated from the Duke MSQM program in May 2023, so I could answer any questions that you have about the program.

Great! Thank you. I’m interested in your perceived ROI of the program in the months since graduation. Do you believe that this greatly expanded your network and gave career boosting results? I’m currently a senior ops manager with an MBA from Boise State but I’m interested in moving to the South or Midwest and going from mid/small market to bigger one with a better total comp. 

What would you say the difficulty of the program is compared to your MBA? I don’t have much tech experience or useful knowledge of R or Python.