I just couldn t make it in a day program, he said. Perezchica earned a bachelor s degree in business administration in 1998 by attending night classes at several area colleges and business colleges, but he soon felt the bachelor s degree wasn t making the difference in his life he d hoped for, he said. This is why he was interested when friends told him about New Mexico State University s master of business administration program, which began offering all of its courses at night in the fall of 2000. Perezchica, who entered the program that fall, said his success in it allows him to feel confident of a brighter future. I think I m going to have a lot of opportunities.
People recognize the effort.
Headrick said in the booming economy of the 90s NMSU s MBA school, like graduate business programs nationwide, saw a drop in enrollment, but its faculty and the area business people who serve on its advisory council realized there was a pool of potential students to balance that trend. We knew there were people in the local area who live here, work here and have bachelor s degrees, but want to move up. What we hope we ve done by going to all evening classes is to offer a high quality program that meets the needs of those people, as well as the needs of our full-time students, he said. Erika Mulcock, an account executive with an El Paso advertising agency, said the new program has resolved a dilemma for her. When she and her husband, Wade, moved to Las Cruces in 1998, she immediately applied to and was admitted into the MBA program.