A Second Degree for Your Tech Career Think you want another
degree? Join the club. Many techies decide to pursue graduate
degrees as a way to advance their careers, hone an area of
expertise or switch specialties. Years ago, graduate program
choices were limited, with many students choosing between an MBA
and a master's degree in computer science, depending on whether
they wanted to seek a management job or maintain a technical
career track. While those choices are still popular, the
possibilities for extending education beyond a bachelor's degree
have expanded as jobs for tech professionals have become more
varied and multidimensional. This means game programmers are
pursuing educational technology degrees to leverage their
experience into a new industry, database pros are pursuing MBAs
to show off their management acumen and network engineers are
studying multimedia to make a wholesale switch in a technical
specialty. So techies need to start thinking about an advanced
degree by sorting through the options.