Executive education: never been more options.

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You can be on an airplane, or a beach, or even in your living room while earning a master's degree in business administration. You can take advanced degrees built for the full-time working professional without ever altering your present lifestyle or work schedule--with all the bells and whistles like consults with professors and 24-hour-a-day library access. Masters degrees are available, with a focus on any number of business disciplines--marketing to e-business to computer science to law--with little more physical effort than the tap of a touch pad.

While online learning--courses taught via computer--has not entirely replaced conventional, walk-the-campus higher education, computers have revolutionized the way students advance their educations and careers. State, private and community universities have repackaged and retooled higher learning options to accommodate almost any customized, self-designed schedule and lifestyle possibility, making it easier than ever before to advance one's education and ultimately earning power and career advancement.

For example, Denver's Regis University offers one of the largest online multimedia-based distance-learning MBA programs in the country and is a member of the University Alliance Online. One of the nation's largest exclusive "e-learning" providers of degree and certificate programs, University Alliance Online is a collective of regionally accredited universities with over 100,000 enrollments.

Regis claims to have an online enrollment of over 4,000,000 adults who are pursuing degrees via state-of-the art technology that includes video, audio, CD ROM and textbook-format media, all in the effort to give the executive-student convenience and flexibility in pursuing advanced degrees.

A quick check of state universities--Colorado State University, the University of Colorado, Western State College and the University of Northern Colorado, to name a handful--offer a variety of MBA programs designed for working adults, including the conventional classroom-attending advanced degrees built for those who can and want to sit through lectures in classrooms with real instructors. For example, the University of Colorado at Boulder offers an Evening MBA Program. The evening MBA is an on-campus degree program held at the CU Boulder campus. Each thirteen-week term is followed by a month-long intermission. Classes are held Monday through Thursday evenings from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m., and students attend classes two nights...