Georgetown MFin vs. JHU MS Applied Economics

I'm a first year analyst in a finance rotation program at a F100, and my company will pay for most of a graduate degree. The schools near me don't have any part time grad degrees that I find particularly prestigious, interesting, or that I qualify for at this early stage in my career. For example a part-time MBA would probably not be advisable after 1 year of work experience. However the money my company is willing to pay is essentially "free" money so I am looking into an online program that I can complete in the next 2-3 years.

The online MFin from Georgetown and the online MS in Applied Econ from Johns Hopkins strike me as the most interesting and well-regarded, although I am aware all programs with online options have a stigma. I am most interested in seeing what the forum thinks would be the better choice for someone in my situation, or just applied to anyone in general. My goals are to advance quickly in corporate finance and become a manager ASAP, with potential opportunities to move into other functions later on in my career. However the first priority is to advance rapidly, increase my marketability, and possibly gain entry into other top F100 companies.

My undergrad is a non-target state school, BBA Finance, summa cum laude. I am not too excited about pursuing a full-time MBA at any point, so hopefully I will be able to pursue just this grad degree, or this grad degree plus a part-time MBA, and have that be sufficient education to advance in corp fin.

Thanks for any feedback.

 

I'm just impatient - I would like to start something ASAP as I'm not very happy in my current company. So potentially I could get this degree for free and then leverage that into a different company where they may or may not pay for more education.

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