Melissa Pecman finished university feeling the way many graduates do: stressed about her student debt.
She landed a job as a geologist with Orix Geoscience Inc. in Sudbury and started making payments on $17,000 in government loans, Ms. Pecman says. Although she was interested in pursuing an applied masters in geology, Ms. Pecman, 27, was reluctant to incur any more debt.
So when senior management at her geological mapping firm approached her offering to pay for her masters program, she jumped at the chance and started the two-year, part-time MA program at Laurentian University this year while working at Orix. The company pays the tuition, which will total $10,000, with the agreement that Ms. Pecman completes the MA successfully and rema…
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