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I'm really not convinced. I looked, and examples of my reporting chain at various points in my career: Company A: Lead (yes, but undergrad in EE), Manager (no)

I'm really not convinced. I looked, and examples of my reporting chain at various points in my career: Company A: Lead (yes, but undergrad in EE), Manager (no), GM (no), VP (?), SVP (no), President (yes), CEO (dropped out of MBA) Company B: Lead (no), Manager (yes), Director (?), Senior Director (no), Senior Director (yes), VP (no), SVP (MBA), CEO (yes) The plural of anecdote is not data, and I'm not a director, but a cursory comparison of senior leadership and LinkedIn doesn't leave me convinced that a graduate degree matters. Most of the folks who have one got one back in the 90s where things were very different.

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Degrees are more important today than they were in the past, preferably a brand name one. Part of the reason they have been getting more expensive. https://www.aplu.org/our-work/5-archived-projects/college-costs-tuition-and-financial-aid/publicuvalues/employment-earnings.html https://www.aplu.org/our-work/5-archived-projects/college-co... This one says 400k+ higher lifetime earnings with "advanced degree". The source from georgetown says they are less likely to loser their job in a recession as well. No, the real world is not black and white and this is not a guarrantee. But, get an advanced degree looks like an easy power-up at the prices OP was willing to pay.