05-05-2024, 03:30 PM
Hello, new user and I am debating a higher ed degree to help my career a little. I'm in financial crimes compliance and risk management and I noticed a degree from Seattle U - MLS: Master of Legal studies in Compliance & Risk Management. I've never heard of this before and did some research. The most info about the usefulness of this is from red-it, and it appears like 80% say it's useless. I was wondering what this forum thinks of MLS degrees in general and it's worth.
To help - this is me: early 50s, Bachelors in Finance, most of my career in securities and financial crimes compliance. I've been trying to get into management, but have not gotten it - maybe it's me, or maybe it's a lack of graduate degree, or both. I noticed a lot of others who got promoted have a MBA or Masters - and some are from a local easy one: UTD, and some are online ones. I know it's late in my career but I still got 15 years or so to go.
So I'm wondering if an MLS would get a good route or maybe go for a fast, lower cost, and somewhat recognizable school like Purdue Online or Boston U online (I've been reading the 'cheap online MBA programs' thread and others I can find about these two colleges in this forum). Before saying UTD - I don't want to take the time to study/take the GMAT. Thank you all!
To help - this is me: early 50s, Bachelors in Finance, most of my career in securities and financial crimes compliance. I've been trying to get into management, but have not gotten it - maybe it's me, or maybe it's a lack of graduate degree, or both. I noticed a lot of others who got promoted have a MBA or Masters - and some are from a local easy one: UTD, and some are online ones. I know it's late in my career but I still got 15 years or so to go.
So I'm wondering if an MLS would get a good route or maybe go for a fast, lower cost, and somewhat recognizable school like Purdue Online or Boston U online (I've been reading the 'cheap online MBA programs' thread and others I can find about these two colleges in this forum). Before saying UTD - I don't want to take the time to study/take the GMAT. Thank you all!