MBA requires experience, and then I got busy until I finally went back.
Bachelor’s degree – 28 yr, 10 mo (received eight days before it would have been 28 years and 11 months).
Master’s degree – 35 yr, 5 mo (received five days before it would have been 35 years and 6 months).
I spent some years living in Thailand, then returned to the US for graduate school before returning again to Thailand.
B.A.: 20 years 8 months
M.A.: finished my coursework at 26 years, 3 months, but didn’t defend my thesis until 32 years, 8 months
(M.A. was in a different field than B.A. I had intended to use it as a stepping stone to a Ph.D. after 5 years working, but for various reasons that never happened. Also, the reason it took me so long to defend my thesis…well, a shattered tibia and fibula followed by 4 rounds of surgery, countless hours of rehab, and a full-time job throughout, followed by a dead committee chair and a flaky replacement chair and 3 extensions of the normally allowed time to complete all degree requirements from the Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, were extenuating circumstances.)
AB: 21 years, 11 months
MS: 24 years, 11 months
BS: 22 years, 7 months.
MS: 25 years, 7 months.
S.B.: 19 yrs, 8 months
M.S.: 20 yrs, 8 months, an on-the-way degree while working on
Ph.D.: 23 yrs, 8 months
As I was on my way to becoming an academic mathematician, there was no point in delaying going straight from my undergraduate school to a Ph.D. program.
BA: 22 and 4 months
MA: 26 and 8 months?
PhD: 33 and 8 months (there were speedbumps)
BS 20y2mo
MBA 24y7mo
MS 33y2mo
Yup. Karachite.
Wow, slowest turnaround time for me to answer a question EVER.
I just spent the last hour logging in to my university system that now requires a 12 character password. :rolleyes: It was a monumental pain in the ass to get to.
BS 42y/10m
MS 46Y/6m
Rats, I thought I had a chance at being the oldest grad here. Congrats.
In my situation it was just a case of what I call real life taking precedence. I went to 1 year of college out of high school, got my 17 y/o girlfriend pregnant, raised 3 kids, next thing you know and bam! it’s 20 years later. What finally got me back off my ass was being laid off for the 5th time over the course of those 20 years; the last time was 10 years ago during the previous “economic down turn.” I decided to go back to school. My reasoning was very simple… If I couldn’t get a job interview, it wasn’t going to be for lack of education.
A hiring manager once told me very candidly that there are always more applicants than openings; especially when the economy is down; and that hiring managers have to find arbitrary ways to whittle down 100 resumes into something manageable. [Lack of] Education is the easiest and fastest way to do that.
BA at 22y4m
MSc at 51y9m
BS at 38 years.
BA 22y8m
MA 27y8m
BS: 22 years, 9 months.
MS: 26 years, 3 months.
BA: 21 years, 5 months
MBA: 28 years, 4 months
JD: 46 years, 11 months
BS - 22 years, 4 months
MS - 38 years (? months); primary reason for doing it was my company paid for it (every last penny!) and a bunch of us in our department did it together (it took 4 years to complete, one class at a time)
21y4m
21y9m
Pitt had a deal back then that with the dean of the departments approval, you could take Masters level classes as an undergraduate at the greatly reduced undergraduate rate per credit. I played this so that on getting my first degree, most of the second was already done and in the bank. Saved a lot of time and buku bucks.
BSBA. 24 years, 2 months
MBA 27 years, 3 months