If you’re sitting at your desk, contemplating your future, youmay discover you need additional education.

A higher education, including a master’s degree, can help giveyou many more opportunities. For example:

* Knowledge advancement. New knowledge in your current field oreven a neighboring sister field can never hurt, and also can helpexpose you to new career opportunities. For example, business degrees range intopic from finance to management and marketing. And you can explorehigher education in one specific field, or receive additionaldegrees in multiple fields to increase your opportunities.

* Expand your network. Signing up for an executive MBA online at Colorado Technical University (CTU) canintroduce you to a new network of classmates – future businesspeers – professors and also business leaders who work with thecollege to make sure students receive the best training needed forthe degree. This network can help you further your career, both nowand well into the future.

* Exude more confidence. Having a master’s degree allows you totake on new career challenges and put your newly acquired knowledgeto work. You also can walk into a prospective interview confidentthat your master’s degree training gives you a good edge overcompetitors who haven’t pursued a master’s degree.

* Be competitive. A higher degree like a master of IT can help give you an edge over your peers both inyour current career and any future job opportunities you may seek.And the knowledge you’ve gleaned through your master’s degree canalso help your company stay competitive in the business world.

Many master’s degree programs are available, but make sure youresearch each program, as well as the school offering it. Identifywhat skills you need to learn, and what opportunities you couldpursue upon graduation. And then go out there and earn yourmaster’s degree.

Information in this article was provided by Colorado TechnicalUniversity. Contact CTU today if you’re interested in developingmarketable knowledge and career-relevant skills with anindustry-current degree program. (CTU cannot guarantee employmentor salary.) Find disclosures on graduation rates, student financialobligations and more at www.coloradotech.edu/disclosures.