Walmart to Help Associates Get College Degrees

[dfrecore]

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.

My husband has it, $5,250/yr and it drives me INSANE that he's not taking advantage!!!  That's a FREE degree right there, but since he doesn't really need it (he's in IT Sales), he doesn't care.  Sigh...

Back when I had it at a company, I took advantage, and I'm so glad now, because I took 5 UL courses over a couple of years at a very expensive (to me) college.  The reason I went there was not because it was a good school or anything - it's that I had FINALLY found a college that didn't go based on the semester system, which I hated with a passion.  I cannot get through a full semester of classes, I lose interest by week 7, and by week 10 I'm out of my mind.  That length of time just about kills me.  So a school with 10-week terms was awesome, and they even had 4-week courses with weekend intensives.  I tried that out, and it was brutal, but still better than the semester system.  I was also finally able to take courses that actually interested me - I didn't have to do stupid CC generic courses that I had no interest in.   3 of the courses ended up going to my HR AOS, 1 was International Business, and 1 Business Comm.  Between those and my previous CC and 4-yr school courses, I was pretty darn close to the BSBA at TESU.

After I moved away, and no longer had the benefit, I just couldn't make myself go back to traditional school.  And, that is how I found this forum.  Then I got that free Sophia course and then The Institutes free course in 2015. And then I found that final pesky Organizational Theory course I needed but couldn't find for cheap - and my CC was offering it during a summer term (8 weeks, hallelujah!), and the rest is history!!