Data Analytics, Cybersecurity, or Accounting

[sanantone]

I work for a state agency that controls the purse strings for the state government and enforces tax laws. My agency, technically, does not have tuition reimbursement. However, you can convince them to pay for continuing education, including college courses, as long as it's related to your position or another position in the agency. Since I'm about to be finished with my medical science program soon, I'm thinking about getting my employer to pay for a term at WGU. It's hard for me to pass up free money. 

Accounting is directly related to my current position, but tax law is boring. I also don't know if WGU would admit me without an accounting degree, even if I complete an undergraduate certificate in accounting. 

Cybersecurity would be most interesting to me, but I don't know if they'll accept my BSBA in CIS with a couple of cybersecurity courses as meeting the admissions requirements. 

I should meet the admissions requirements for the data analytics program. I haven't really thought about a career in big data, data analytics, or data science, but stronger skills in statistics and SAS could help me in landing a job as an epidemiologist with my MS or in social science research with my PhD. 

In the end, I think I'll lean toward the program that requires the least amount of writing. 

P.S. I dropped out of the Walden program before completing any work. I knew I wasn't going to write all those papers.