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The Master's as the new Bachelor's: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/24/education/edlife/edl-24masters-t.html http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/24/education/edlife/e
by Futurebot 10y ago
The Master's as the new Bachelor's: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/24/education/edlife/edl-24masters-t.html http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/24/education/edlife/edl-24mas...
"“Several years ago it became very clear to us that master’s education was moving very rapidly to become the entry degree in many professions,” Dr. Stewart says. The sheen has come, in part, because the degrees are newly specific and utilitarian. These are not your general master’s in policy or administration. Even the M.B.A., observed one business school dean, “is kind of too broad in the current environment.” Now, you have the M.S. in supply chain management, and in managing mission-driven organizations. There’s an M.S. in skeletal and dental bioarchaeology, and an M.A. in learning and thinking."
- Balgair 10y agoI'll add to this too. We have had potential employers invited to speak in front of classes for the joint MS/PhD program, often ~6 employers for the hour of class time, and this happened a few times. One guy said '... entry level positions for MS students like you ...', though I was half asleep, I did pick that one out of the talk. When the Q&A part came around, I asked him about it. He said "We will not hire any engineer without a MS. The MS is now entry level", and the other people there agreed with him. This was in bio-medical engineering, fwiw.