The Grad School Search Begins

So you’ve just realized you are going to finish up your long awaited College Degree and you’ve got your sites set on this amazing job. But now what? You realize the applicant field is to thick and you must above all else find a way to stand out above the crowd. The Masters Degree is the only way to do that. So in the middle of some of the busiest days of our lives we are forced to set out on The Grad School Search. The ever present ominous task of selecting the finest school to set us apart from the competition so we can go to the campus library and pick up some books, we can go speak to our advisor, or we can head out onto the internet and start researching. Personally I like the research side of things.

One site I’ve found particularly useful is called MBA Schools. With the ever looming recession there are tons of good reasons to get an MBA, they just reinforced it for me right off the bat.

“MBA graduates can look forward to rosier job prospects and higher starting salaries.”18% more MBA graduates were hired in 2006 than in 2005, and base salaries jumped to over $80,000, with total compensation packages coming in just a shade under $100,000. Most colleges offering MBA degrees report an increase from business recruiters of 10 to 30%.

I spent about an hour just this morning digging through the resources they have on this site. I personally would like to stay in California where I currently attend college at San Diego City College, but I’m going to keep my options open. I like the possibility of taking a job out in the real world while I work on my MBA online and after hours. So that’s probably the route I will go.

MBA Schools, has a lot of possibilities as far as Grad Schools that I can attend locally or via distance learning. So I sent off for information from all the schools that I thought were a good fit for my major which is Computer Information Science and now I’m just waiting for a reply back.