 For me, the online program was the only way to go. I was out of school nine years before I went back from my master's degree to my master's degree so I wasn't ready to just pick up and leave everything and go to a residence program. So for me, the only way that I was going to get my master's degree was online. We're not the only online program in GIS, but students are going to be hard pressed to find a university that has the experience in geospatial education that we have and the commitment that the university has as a whole, the commitment to providing not just a high quality education, but the kind of support services that are needed to really make a satisfying student experience. Well I was always interested in land use, urban planning and mapping and I was a civil engineering major back in my college days and I wanted to combine that with my IT experience and give my career a boost. There's a tremendous range of applications of geospatial technology. In the next ten years, an additional 300,000 new workers will be needed in those occupations. So there's an urgent need for education programs like ours, particularly those that are accessible to people while they continue their full-time employment. We have a portfolio of three programs. We began with a certificate program in GIS and that grew into a master's degree in GIS and then we launched a graduate certificate in geospatial intelligence. We did everything from geodatabase design. We did a lot of work with acquiring data. Some of the other courses were environmental work, spatial analysis and project management. So they taught you a lot of on-the-job stuff as well as the technical GIS components. One course lasts three months and you can pack in four courses per year, which is what I did to get my certificate. I took a year-round courses that took me three and a half years to get the degree. I have one course this semester. I just thought it worked really well for me personally and professionally. I love the format. Online learning isn't for everyone and I didn't know if it was going to be for me. One thing I learned is you just have to be motivated and understand that you have to find the time somewhere in your schedule. But what's nice is if you want to do the work at ten o'clock in your pajamas, you can do it. I was able to come home from work after a long day and log in and do my course work on my own pace and I still had some time left over so it was really convenient. I would say a GIS program or analyst, doing what I do in database and development and programming except in the GIS realm, so getting into something that's cool and fun. I'm a GIS analyst. When I first came here I had no formal education. Everything I had learned was on the job. So for me, the education allowed me to do things quicker and better and more efficient and in a profit company that's really important to the client. So for me it just really well rounded me into where I am today in my career.