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I'm curious what would happen if they looked at, as separate categories, people who mastered out of a doctoral program, people who did the 5-year BS/MS, and peo
by sporkenfang 10y ago
I'm curious what would happen if they looked at, as separate categories, people who mastered out of a doctoral program, people who did the 5-year BS/MS, and people who obtained a doctoral degree as well as a master's.
- adjkant 10y agoAgreed completely. I would suspect that BS/MS and Ph.D. interviewees would be very distinct from a straight MS, but this was a missed opportunity to look at that, even if it is just interview performance.
- geebee 10y agoThat could be useful. The article mentioned rhat there was no distinction made between CS masters degrees and Info Systems degrees. My guess is that pure MS would correlate positively from CS programs that require a background in more advanced math and algorithms. Info sys degrees typically don't. I'm not knocking those degrees, keep in mind we're measuring performance on a technical interview, which often leans very heavily toward algorithms, trees, sometimes graphs, and occasionally numerical analysis or computing. If the MS degree data includes a lot of programs that dont include this background, then this woukd not be a surprising result.