I’m a huge college hoops fan and while the Gophers are always my team, I have long-noticed and followed the fate of Gonzaga University. I love that small school from a small conference underdog aspect of them whenever March Madness rolls around, though I rarely play them in Draft Day Sports: Pro Basketball 2 or anything.
But now I’ve learned that Gonzaga isn’t just with it on the court, but in the classroom, too. They now have an online master degree program that rivals University of Phoenix and other online schools, because Gonzaga has a sterling academic reputation.
While my path is more religious in nature, I’m intrigued by their communication and leadership master’s degree program, although they also offer nursing degrees, servant leadership degrees, and degrees in organization leadership. They’re a Jesuit university, so it’s not quite my particular brand of religious training, but there are plenty of folks for whom they’d be an ideal fit. Too bad I already have a master’s degree in English, or I’d be at least looking into it more.
But wow, what a revelation! I thought Gonzaga was just about basketball, and here they turn out to be a whole lot more. The third-ranked university in the west, ranked one of the country’s best universities by Princeton Review and Forbes Magazine, and one of the few top universities to venture into online education and distance learning. Look out, UoP!