Fair Enough, if you disagree. I would like to point out something to people who may see your comment, because I personally believe this is the way to get work i

Fair Enough, if you disagree. I would like to point out something to people who may see your comment, because I personally believe this is the way to get work in a specialized field. Feel free to rebut as well. This is just a note, my motivation for Masters was for specialization in distributed algorithms. The Masters degree has opened a lot of opportunities to the people I study with, yes you need to be a good student (high distinction at least) to get these opportunities but they are there. If you are willing to put in hours and hours of study a day, it will almost guarantee interesting work when you graduate. Yes if you just perform averagely, it probably won't help you to break into your area of specialization right after uni. Out of people I know, one is working at Jane Street on the OCaml compiler now. Another is working on Azure at Microsoft, another on powershell at Microsoft. A friend has managed to get internships at Atlassian, Facebook and is now interviewing with a well known database company (I will leave the name out, since its an ongoing interview) to work on distributed systems stuff there. I've had a few interesting opportunities through my masters as well, currently I am working on a real time social media topic discovery platform. To add to this, the skill difference of the average undegrad student I encountered and the average Masters student I encountered was quite high. Additionally, the grad path also allows for research alongside world leading experts in their field (Depending on the university). To do add to this, most universities allows for exchange, at my institution, students are granted the opportunity to go to universities such as ETH Zurich (4th in the world for comp sci) and Imperial College London (9th in the world for comp sci). These will not only look great on a resume for someone looking for their first job, it will allow the students to network with other students who will likely be in the top of their fields. To add to this so many people that are specialized have advanced degrees. It's really hard to find research papers by people who do not have an advanced degree. I do agree universities do take advantage of international students, UoM is awful with international students, they have lower standards for them, so that they come here, fail and have to repeat subjects over and over again.