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Both. An education is worth it if it is a master; I do not think, speaking from experience myself and people I have hired, a bachelor is worth much of anything.
by tluyben2 8y ago
Both. An education is worth it if it is a master; I do not think, speaking from experience myself and people I have hired, a bachelor is worth much of anything.
A master will give you thorough theoretical understanding, it shows you can get through difficult and boring phases but did not give up and you learn to learn and reason systematically. Outside that networking, social life and having fun should be a big part imho.
If you have to build up student debt (I am from the EU; it was basically free for me as long as I wanted, so I got several degrees) then it depends what you want with it; I would say for IT compsci is definitely worth it; other fields, you might struggle to pay back debt for a long time so then it would need to be something you really want. As you are not sure and asking here I assume you mean compsci.
- leetcrew 8y ago> An education is worth it if it is a master ymmv here. the company I work at offers the same starting salary to fresh bachelors, masters, and phds, unless your scholarly work happens to directly pertain to the business. in a lot of cases you will have missed out on 4-5 years of raises and experience. a lot of companies will be calling your peers "senior devs" by the time you get your first job.
- tluyben2 8y agoymmv indeed; probably depends a lot on the field and region, hence the ‘in my experience’ ;) Many companies we work with throw bachelors straight on the do not hire or maybe-if-no-master pile. This is also related to that in my generation and my country, bachelor basically meant dropout. You always got the equivalent of a master and hiring managers from my generation and region still feel it is basically not finishing.