Graduating college is a huge deal, but doing it as a mom of 5, and completing your degree 30 years after you have started is truly an accomplishment worth celebrating very big. This is exactly what this 46-year-old mother is doing right now with all of her children by her side and we are incredibly inspired.

According to Good Morning America, Tyra Muhammad started her undergraduate studies 30 years ago. Now, she holds a degree from Grambling State University, as of last month, which she attended at the same time as three of her five children. Talk about awesome.

Muhammad told Good Morning America, "I had the thought of, ‘I’m too old to do this. I’m too old to go back to school and be back on campus,' but my kids encouraged me and were there for me. People at times would think we were all siblings [on campus] together, so I appreciated that."

Like so many moms, Muhammad left school whenever she got married and started having children with her partner. An English major, she started at Grambling State as a freshman back in 1994 and met her husband and the two married at the end of Muhammad's freshman year, when she was 19.

Since they soon started their family, she left school as it was too hard to be pregnant and in school. We feel that.

"I kind of put myself on the back burner, which is generally what most mothers and women do," she said.

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Muhammad went on to become a certified nursing assistant and tried a few times throughout the years to start school again, but school always played second fiddle to motherhood.

Then in 2018, she and her husband divorced and the kids were getting older. She decided it was time to return to school, but this time, three of her children were enrolled at the university.

"I sat my children down and talked to them and asked them if it’d be awkward if I attended at the same time and they said no," recalled Muhammad. "I always wanted my degree and also wanted to be an example to my children in terms of the importance of education."

Her children, now ages 15, 19, 22, 23, and 26, has no problem with it and loved the positive attention the family got as they were often seen together on campus.

"It’s a blessing because it makes me feel like, okay, I did something right," said Muhammad, who also shared how she has stressed how important education is to her children. "To see them strive and do well and to want to go back and continue on is an amazing feeling."

What is her advice to other moms out there in the same situation? "Perseverance is so important," she said. "Even if it’s not going back to school, if you have a goal to attain, just do it."

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Source: Good Morning America