Degrees In Business Blog

With fall semester coming to a close and spring semester quickly approaching, prospective and current college students are searching for answers to their academic questions, and military personnel are no exception. Are you an active duty, reserve, or veteran seeking a military-friendly business degree with your GI Bill benefits? Consider Hawaii Pacific University, a university located in a worldly location on the shores of the United States and over a dozen other countries.

Hawaii Pacific University’s military-friendly business degrees are available online or on campus, so that active duty can attend school while deployed or veterans can attend school in the classroom (or vica versa, if able!); and these programs are quality, accredited education both ways, meaning that students can alternate between an online education, a campus education, or an education at a completely different university if they so choose.

Some of the noteworthy awards of recognition the military-friendly business program at Hawaii Pacific University has received:

• Selected as a one of the Top 30 Military Friendly Colleges and Universities by Military Advanced Education magazine in 2008
• Hawaii Pacific University ranks as one of the most diverse universities in the world by Institute for International Education
• Named as a Military Friendly School for 2010 by G.I. Jobs magazine. The honor ranks HPU in the top 15% of all colleges, universities and trade schools nationwide
• Hawaii Pacific University is recognized as a “Best in the West” college by Princeton Review and a “Best Buy” by Barron’s magazine
• Great Colleges in the Real World recommends HPU as an ideal institution for those who seek an educational experience that will successfully prepare them for the working world
• Rugg’s Recommendations on the Colleges lists Hawaii Pacific University as one of the top 100 schools in the United States

The online MBA program looks at the global marketplace from the vantage of the Hawaiian coasts with a curriculum balanced between core subjects and electives for specialization. The five specializations for the online MBA program include Human Resources Management, Information Systems, International Business, Management, and Organizational Change and Development.  For students with a particular interest in creative business practices and change, the Master of Arts in Organizational Change is another military-friendly graduate program available online and on campus.

One of the key differences between the MA/OC and the MBA programs is interdisciplinary cross-over; the MBA programs are designed to be all-around utility for the business environment, so that the Organizational Change specialization would still have a handful of marketing classes and other coursework to enrich the student’s skill sets. The MA/OC, on the other hand, only focuses on Organizational Change. Both programs have received praise for military students.

To learn more about Hawaii Pacific University, visit their website today.