Career Fork in the Road

All, I am an Executive MBA from a pretty elite school and run an small oilfield portfolio company for a PE firm. I'm only 30- I was a co-founder of the firm. I am trying to develop a further specialization (because my undergrad is liberal arts and my MBA is general). I have always drifted towards finance- and my career is largely been biz dev and finance. I was thrust about a year ago in a CFO role, then got named President once oil prices hit rock bottom in a turnaround. I am looking at going back for an MS in Finance. I live in TX, but all my family is in Chicago. I am looking at either going to one of two programs and then potentially self-studying for the CFA to "finalize a specialization", as I think that would make me more versatile. I am looking at traveling to the part-time Notre Dame finance program or going to UT Dallas Finance Flex program. I'm not great at things like calculus. Would love to get an idea of which program would be more helpful to me in developing a reputation, opening up further doors, etc. Our PE firm will eventually sell, and I would like to get into a few more of these.

 

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