Here's my anecdote about the value of a Masters. One of my good friends and I started at the same company around the same time. He had just finished his master

Here's my anecdote about the value of a Masters. One of my good friends and I started at the same company around the same time. He had just finished his masters and I hadn't. He had 5 or 6 years of real world experience, while I had 3. I got hired in making considerably more money than him because he was considered a "university" hire. While this could just be the result of the fact he went through university recruiters and I didn't, it still seems like his Master's didn't help him much. In my (admittedly short) career, I haven't seen a difference in quality between what people with a BS and an MS produce that would make it worthwhile for me to go back to school. It just wouldn't be worth it for me unless I was really interested in the research.