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What’s the best way to move ahead and continue getting ahead? While some people might quickly choose to pursue an MBA, there are many strong, professionally beneficial reasons to earn a specialized finance degree, instead.
William & Mary’s Raymond A. Mason School of Business is launching an Online Master of Accounting (MAcc) program.
As a graduate student, you’re going to be fielding a lot of advice. It starts before you enter the program—with application tips and strategies for how to craft the perfect essay—and it carries right on through to graduation. Graduate school interview preparation, in particular, is a topic prospective students sh...
Once you've completed your admissions essay for the Online MSBA, take some time to explore the technical skills and business acumen you'll build in preparation for your future as a data scientist, storyteller and strategist.
Sometimes the hardest thing an emerging and even established business professional can do is sell themselves. Whether the struggle stems from humility or self-doubt, nothing embodies this challenge greater than the resume, that one-page summary of your years of life lessons and work experience.
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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.
In recent years, business schools have seen increased interest in specialized master’s degree programs, even as applications and enrollments in full-time MBA programs have declined somewhat. One of the four most popular business master’s degrees offered today by business schools attempting to meet this shifting demand is a master’s in marketing.
You’ve made up your mind: To launch yourself on the path to a fulfilling career in one of the most dynamic and creatively invigorating areas of the business landscape, you’ve decided that you’re going to pursue a master of science in marketing. Congratulations!
The pursuit of a graduate degree requires enormous determination and persistence. By the time you’re considering which MBA program to choose, you’ve already become an academic achiever and, very likely, a successful professional. It would be dreadful if the financial costs of a quality MBA program derailed your advancement and success. They don’t have to.
The Online MBA program at William & Mary's Raymond A. Mason School of Business has earned the No. 11 ranking in the Poets & Quants Best Online MBA Programs of 2022, rising eight spots from last year's ranking.
Designed for students aspiring to advance into positions of management, entrepreneurship or executive leadership, Master of Business Administration (MBA) programs typically take an analytical approach to management.
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.
In a global business economy, marketing offers some of the most diverse career opportunities available. It’s a rapidly growing industry, with companies all over the world seeking top marketing talent to help sell products and services to key audiences.
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.