Sometimes, less than nothing. I was in the University of Connecticut's graduate linguistics program for a year before deciding it wasn't for me and dropping out

Sometimes, less than nothing. I was in the University of Connecticut's graduate linguistics program for a year before deciding it wasn't for me and dropping out. I could have stuck around for one more year and left with a master's, but in linguistics it's generally viewed as a "consolation prize" for students who weren't good enough to complete the PhD. For that reason I didn't even bother.