Graduate Degree

Graduate Degree

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Pursuing A Graduate Degree in Business Administration
Cheryl L. Jones
University of Phoenix
December 22, 2008

Pursuing A Graduate Degree in Business Administration
The main topic of this paper is to inform you the about the 3 reasons for pursuing a graduate degree in Business Administration. The reasons are as follows: promotion; management positions; and accomplishing personal goals.
Promotion
Being a member of the United States Public Health Service Corps (Department of Homeland Security) pursuing a graduate degree will increase your changes of moving to the next level when it comes to promotions. In order to be competitive in the military service requires having a graduate degree. It will place you ahead of you peers; especially the ones that do not have a graduate degree. The next two promotion grades that you will have an opportunity in being selected are Commander (CDR-05) and Captain (CAPT-06). You will obtain an increase in base pay by $975.00 promotion to Commander and by $1,198.00 promotion to Captain. See Example 1 (Figure) US Navy Rank Insignia picture of what the insignias look like for Commander and Captain.
Example 1 (Figure)
|Pay Grade: O5 |Pay Grade: O6 |
|[pic] |[pic] |
|Commander |Captain |
|(CDR) |(CAPT) |

Figure 1. Navy Ranks. Note. From http://www.military-quotes.com/ranks/navy-rank-insignia.htm, 2008.
In addition to the above being promoted to the next rank will also entitle me to an increase in basic housing allowance and basic subsistence allowance.
Management Positions...

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