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Getting paid more in a job is about providing more value to your employer. Getting an advanced degree is about test taking, writing papers, and research. They
by crazy1van 13y ago
Getting paid more in a job is about providing more value to your employer.
Getting an advanced degree is about test taking, writing papers, and research.
They are not necessarily correlated. This is akin to wondering why excelling at juggling doesn't make you more money in a programming job. Juggling just doesn't add more value to that particular job.
- tn13 13y agoA lot of times it is just "paying fees".
- pavanred 13y agoI must agree, I am a Computer Science graduate student and one thing I have noticed is that the only courses that always run out of registrations within a minute (literally) of registration open are the ones in which the Professor is known to hand out A grades to almost everyone who takes up his course. Needless to say many students graduate with high GPA scores. At least in this case, its just "paying fees".
- arghnoname 13y agoPrograms differ. I'm a CS grad student (PhD) and it seems like most people don't even bother registering at all until a month before class or so. No one cares about class all that much and for most courses getting an A or a B (anything else is failing) is the expected course of action, though that isn't to say the coursework is easy. You effectively couldn't graduate with less than a 3.5 anyway, though again, no one cares about GPA. If you elect to do a MS, the comp exams are another matter. For the PhD, it's all research, research, research. For that same reason, some people try to take classes that are reportedly less work or where active research work can count toward a class project because otherwise, it takes too much away from research time. It's a very different experience for me than undergraduate because of the low regard for class work (though doing poorly will invite mockery).