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Spending upwards of $100k or more on personal enrichment seems a bit extravagant. Unfortunately, the majority of people are coerced to go into debt when the ret
by ratsmack 4y ago
Spending upwards of $100k or more on personal enrichment seems a bit extravagant. Unfortunately, the majority of people are coerced to go into debt when the return on the "investment" is very limited.
- adgjlsfhk1 4y agoIn a lot of fields (not all) it is highly unusual to pay for your masters/phd
- ARandomerDude 4y agoWhat fields? Honest question, not trying to flame you. I've known people who got scholarships but can't say I'm aware of any field in which paying for your own graduate degree is rare.
- david38 4y agoI’ve never heard of a student paying for their engineering, math or science degree. If you do get an offer to study, but without sponsorship, it’s a signal they don’t really want you.
- giaour 4y agoI know that's the case for doctoral degrees, but are terminal masters degrees usually fully funded in those fields?
- lokar 4y agoI'm not sure now but something like all top 30 CS programs (for students on the PhD track who are US citizens)
- episode0x01 4y agoEcon PhDs are funded
- godelski 4y agoYou're thinking of STEM fields. No one pays for a PhD in STEM. But not all masters programs have guaranteed funding. This is going to vary dramatically across schools and very much so across programs. That said, the only person I know in CS that paid for a masters at my uni chose to (and only did so for one term). Outside of that, people I know in the English department, Philosophy, and others, they are paying.
- giaour 4y agoIn the humanities (at least ~10 years ago), it was unheard of both to pay for your own PhD and for a terminal masters to be funded. MA students paid full tuition, which provided a lot of the funding for PhD students.