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How necessary is it for a Master's in Computer Science?

• veyron 15y ago
  What do you want to do after education? That will govern your education decisions
  • shaganappi200 15y ago
    I'm not exactly sure yet, but I currently have a lot of interest in application development. I plan on becoming a software developer and working in the industry. At the same time, I read a lot of business and tech blogs about start-ups and do find immense interest in that also. That may also be a path I would like to pursue. Still exploring....
• geekytenny 15y ago
  >Masters in CS? MBA? Business in CS? Law + CS? Make up your mind first, then u will know. >What opportunities would each offer? Endless opportunities..as far as you can see or imagine. But i would be biased towards CS because you can make a product and be off to the market very easily...if you know what you are doing... >Employment opportunities before and after. How is it affected? Help lower unemployment stats......think of creating jobs instead.
  • dlikhten 15y ago
    Furthermore I would never encourage anyone to do nothing but stay in achedemia for long periods of time. That is unless the job demands it (my wife is a Speach Language Pathologist and cannot work until she has a M.S. in SLP period) however I don't have a masters. I was considering getting one eventually in a field like AI or something but I would want to ensure I go to a very respectable school where I am guaranteed to find some awesome research projects to work on. End-of-the-day a Master is for a specialization you want to work on for specific type of jobs. Generally past a B.S. is not required in 99% of the market especially if you are good.
• alecbenzer 15y ago
  I'm also (as in, "I, too, am") wondering what grad schools look for down the line. How much do things like school reputation and prestige matter (specifically in CS)? GPA? Curriculum (eg, do honors courses help), stuff like that? GRE scores? Research? Internships? Do any of these matter more than others?
• bartonfink 15y ago
  Unless you're positive you want to go the academic route, I'd highly recommend working for a year or so first, and I don't mean as an intern. I remember folks from my M.S. who came straight from undergrad, and by and large they had trouble with the sort of things that you'd simply know if you'd worked on production code before. For example, in a database architecture class, one student actively argued with me on theoretical grounds (chiefly that it breaks the concept of defined primary keys) when I pointed out that it's common for commercial RDBMS's to be able to create autoincrementing identity columns for tables. Another student opened up separate copies of Eclipse for each file he wanted to edit, and then asked me why he was having performance issues on his machine. I know that computer science != programming, but you can get a significant amount of knowledge from just a small investment in time in the "real world", and that knowledge may prove quite useful later in your studies.
  • queensnake 15y ago
    Plus, at least when I went back, it was like a glorious vacation for the first couple of semesters - nothing to do but Learn New Stuff (what a concept!) and do tidy, school-sized projects :)
  • shaganappi200 15y ago
    I have heard that grad schools look for applicants with industry experience. Does that really make that much of a difference? I have interned at a small company and will be interning at Apple this summer. I know its only for the summer and will not get as much exposure compared to working full time for a year. I do plan on obtaining a couple other internships throughout the year and definitely next summer. Don't a lot of people go straight to grad school without working full time?