{"id":42,"date":"2014-12-08T22:33:05","date_gmt":"2014-12-08T22:33:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/osumba\/?p=42"},"modified":"2014-12-08T22:33:05","modified_gmt":"2014-12-08T22:33:05","slug":"five-reasons-earn-mba-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/osumba\/2014\/12\/08\/five-reasons-earn-mba-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"Five Reasons to Earn an MBA in 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"

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December can be exciting, with holidays and celebrations filling many hours\u00a0throughout the month. It\u2019s a time to spend with family and friends, and to give thanks to those most important in our lives. It is also a great\u00a0time to reflect\u00a0and ask important questions related to your professional goals and aspirations:\u00a0Is my\u00a0career on track? Am I\u00a0enjoying the work I\u2019m doing? Am I still learning? Where will I be in five\u00a0years? If these questions have you scratching your head, perhaps earning an MBA can help. Below are five\u00a0great reasons to consider this versatile degree in 2015:<\/p>\n

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  1. Advance Your Career<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 An MBA can help individual contributors move into leadership and management positions. MBA students typically take courses in project management, organizational development, ethics and negotiations. In addition, most programs allow future leaders to practice these skills through capstone projects, group presentations and other experiential learning opportunities.<\/li>\n
  2. \u00a0Change Careers<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 An MBA can be a springboard to new career paths. By focusing on a broad range of business disciplines, MBA graduates can leverage these new skills and experiences to transition into a new industry or functional area.<\/li>\n
  3. Earn More <\/strong>\u2013 On average, MBA graduates earn more than their non-MBA counterparts. According to a 2012 analysis by Poets and Quants, graduates of part-time MBA programs reported an average increase of 53% over their pre-MBA salary.<\/li>\n
  4. Expand Your Network<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 An MBA provides opportunities to meet new customers, employers and business partners. MBA programs tend to attract students from a wide variety of industries, functions and geographies.<\/li>\n
  5. Choose From Many Options – <\/strong>\u00a0MBA programs are becoming more flexible to meet the needs of both full-time students and working professionals. At Oregon State, full-time students with a business background can earn their degree in as little as nine months, while working professionals can customize their course schedule around their careerand family commitments. We also offer an MBA in Executive Leadership taught via an online\/hybrid model, combining online courses, readings and assignments with one\u00a0or two in-person class sessions each quarter.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Brian Precious is the MBA Program Director at Oregon State University. He can be reached at: OSUMBA@oregonstate.edu.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    December can be exciting, with holidays and celebrations filling many hours\u00a0throughout the month. It\u2019s a time to spend with family and friends, and to give thanks to those most important in our lives. It is also a great\u00a0time to reflect\u00a0and ask important questions related to your professional goals and aspirations:\u00a0Is my\u00a0career on track? Am I\u00a0enjoying… Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4803,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/osumba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/osumba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/osumba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/osumba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4803"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/osumba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/osumba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/osumba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions\/51"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/osumba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/osumba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/osumba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}