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Graduating from a master’s program is always an impressive and praise-worthy feat. But the class of 2022 reached a particularly momentous milestone as their numbers included the 500th recipient of an MSBA degree from William & Mary’s Raymond A. Mason School of Business.
Meet Ted Hallum, MSBA ’20. This U.S. Army veteran and Senior Defense Machine Learning Engineer for Octo Consulting Group hosts The Data Canteen—a podcast that grew out of the Veterans in Data Science & Machine Learning (VDSML) community, which he founded.
Meet Cherise M. Newsome, MBA ‘23 Candidate. Named one of the “Top Forty Under 40” by the Virginia Pilot in October 2021, she’s Vice President for Communications and Marketing at Hampton Roads Community Foundation.
These days, the quantity of data that humans collect is so vast that it would be impossible to sort through it manually. To help us make sense of all the information available, data scientists have developed powerful data mining software that effortlessly sorts facts using a variety of complex methods.
You enjoy working with numbers and conquering complex challenges, and you’re interested in pursuing a high-level career in finance … but you have a full-time job, and the thought of adding graduate school to your schedule is daunting.
What are your principles? What constitutes, as Merriam-Webster defines it, the “comprehensive and fundamental law, doctrine, or assumption” or the “rule or code of conduct” by which you choose to live and interact with other people?
Anyone thinking about earning a master’s degree has a lot of decisions to make. One of the first questions you need to answer is what type of degree you plan to earn.
Professional aspirations and the drive to achieve are powerful motivators when you choose to pursue an online master’s degree in marketing. As you weigh the many factors that influence your choice of program, tuition will surely be an element to consider.
We live in a world with seemingly endless amounts of data: demographics, socioeconomic information, buying patterns and preferences, social media interactions and more. With all of that information churning around, businesses must be able to derive meaning from it and use it to move forward strategically.
When you think of pursuing an MBA, there are many criteria to take into account. You need to find a program offering the degree that fits your goals, delivering the quality you expect, in the format and on the schedule that works with the rest of your time commitments.
It can be hard to find the right MBA program. In a world full of them, each one strives to earn the confidence—and tuition dollars—of new applicants. It’s often a challenge to see past the promotional materials to the details of each program’s unique traits.
Accreditation by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) is an elite honor bestowed upon fewer than 5% of business schools worldwide. Choosing an AACSB-accredited online MBA program ensures that you'll study at a premium-quality institution where you’ll be taught by world-class faculty.
With the rapid rise in data availability over the past decade, the amount of data processed by modern businesses has far surpassed the resources offered by traditional databases. With the integration of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning, complex data parsing and analysis are now common functions of modern businesses.
Gone are the days of sifting through alphabetized folders in clunky filing cabinets looking for a missing document. Modern businesses process thousands of gigabytes of data every day, and doing so in a way that maximizes the data’s value requires computerized analysis with lightning-fast organizational systems.
As more leaders prioritize technologies such as machine learning (ML) and big data, they increasingly turn to predictive analytics for decision-making. By developing predictions, organizations are better able to gain a competitive advantage and use resources effectively.
Management skills are a principal focus of any MBA program.¹ An MBA is designed to enhance your professional development and prepare you to be a C-level executive. However, as you acquire management skills, you also learn many other har...
Greg Roland, a real estate consultant who had been considering a pivot into marketing for some time, knew he needed to find a master’s degree program that could equip him with the leading-edge digital marketing skills tha...
Among the numerous prerequisites to applying for your MBA, work experience can be one of the most challenging to define. Whereas GMAT scores are easily quantifiable and your undergraduate GPA is likely...
Corporate leaders once could say with confidence that they relied on “gut feeling” or their own past experience to make decisions. But those pronouncements won’t fly in most boardrooms today. Organizations of all kinds now depend on data analytics—and on the analysts who use data to provide key in...
Some events in life are truly life changing. Marriage. Children. Purchasing your first home. Starting your own business. But getting an MBA can be just as transformative—and might even help you achieve some of your other life-changing goals. While we can’t predict the future, we can pinpoint 10 wa...