Walmart to Help Associates Get College Degrees

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I would love to see a follow up knowing if people take advantage. In the companies that my husband has had this benefit (2) he used it both times (BS at company 1 and MBA at company 2) and HR was very open at his first company to say that no employee had ever used it for a degree. At his current company, people are doing it slowly, but that's because they've upped the requirement to master's degree. But in the 3 years he worked on his MBA, only 2 other employees at his campus started their master's - that's out of a couple hundred eligible. One more anecdote, I post various employee reimbursement or employee tuition funding programs on my blog / FB page from time to time, and it never even creates a mild buzz. People just don't seem to get excited about it - something that seriously blows my mind.

*When my kids are all finished with their degrees, I'll dip down to my husband's campus to pick up at least one more free degree for myself (I'm included in this perk). I just can't even imagine letting that benefit go unused.

The main reason I started this journey (and found you wonderful people :-) ) is that my company does tuition reimbursement. I'll be taking advantage of it very soon.