I have a lot of experience with this, as I just finished my MBA last year.
As wizards8507 & jaredo155 said, if you can, pay cash or get a federal loan. I've never worked for an employer willing to pay for my schooling, but that sounds awesome; finding someone else to pay even a portion would help tremendously.
Avoid SallieMae like it's the plague! Generally applies to any private loans, but they are especially horrible. I haven't had any experience with Discover student loans, but I'd say avoid them too. If you do have to take a SallieMae loan, then be sure to create an account with Upromise to help pay it down; every little bit helps.
Most likely you will have go to school at least part time to qualify for student loans.
I didn't realize how serious that was until I had 1 final class left to take before graduating. Because of work commitments, I wasn't able to take it until the winter semester; since it was all I had left, this one class was all I had to take that semester. It was worth 3 credits, minimum to qualify for part time status & student loans was 6 credits per semester; I wound up having to pay out of pocket (and I found out about six weeks before I was scheduled to take the class, which did not leave me much time to find the money. Aw memories, those were good times….NOT!)
My final bit of advice is, unless you have to go to grad school for work / career advancement, then don't go. If you're just going because you love to learn, then take the free classes offered by Harvard and MIT. Here is an article about it.
https://money.cnn.com/2012/05/02/technology/harvard-mit-online/index.htm
Or Google edx
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