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I would be dubious about the "more employable" bit. There are plenty of examples where having a PhD makes one less employable. It would vary by field as well, s

• auxym 11y ago
  Anecdotal evidence, but I found my MASc [1] to be a very hard sell for most employers. That is even if it was very applied, the goal at the end of my project was pretty much to have a good enough prototype to get funding for a startup [2]. One company thought it was interesting and made an offer, but I ended up accepting a second offer from another company, a position which had already been offered to me after undergrad. All in all, I don't regret, it was 2 years spent with a lot of autonomy on an interesting R&D project, which is mostly unheard of in industry, especially for junior roles. But I can't say it was really a plus for my career, 2 years of experience would have allowed me to get P.Eng. and that plus experience is much more valuable in the eyes of employers. [1] In Canada, MEng is generally 45 credits of coursework and 15 credits of research+thesis, while MASc is the opposite (major research component). [2] We were eventually denied government funding, which made private capital also pull out. The reason was apparently the shakiness of the business case, which I unfortunately was not much involved in.