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>>351
>Are master's programs really just cash cows
Depends if your country has free education or not.

>>351
Depends on the career. Some require a masters nowadays.

>>372
No there are a few that offer fellowship but they are the exception and rare. There are ways to get TA and RA positions, but its probably super competitive

>>374
Going into data science. I see some positions require it, but Ive heard of people getting in without it. But it's probably a bad field to go in anyways, jobs are drying up as porkys have realized data scientists dont add much to their bottom line

its the kind of shit that is only useful to you if youre already a petit booj with contacts and or money

>>351
Historically postgraduate academia was meant for those who wanted a job in academia and research, you shouldn't do it just 'to get a job'.

>>377
>>376
how about the prestige of some postgrad uni vs if u went to a shitty uni for undergrad? wouldnt hr cunts move the resume to the top if they see someone went to a top school vs some other bloke?

my fam is asian and they been disrespecting me my whole life. now that i got into a top uni I feel like its almost worth going just to spite them

Well, depends on the country.

Master's program in Germany? Free and quasi-obligatory for most degrees, especially STEM, due to be expected by employers. Master's program in the US? According to most labor statistics utterly useless except for people trying to immigrate under an immigration visa.

>>351
Only good reason I can think of to have a Master's is if there is a specific job you want to do that requires you to be educated to Master's level. Otherwise, most people I know did it because they were interested in the subject or they just didn't know what the fuck to do after they left uni so they decided to stay on another year or two.

It depends.
Some degrees are absolutely useless unless you at least have a masters. Honestly, just do trades if you don't care about doing anything in particular. I don't really hate the "PMC", but there is a lot of bullshit that comes with the territory. If you just want money without spending years in academia find and don't mind working with your hands that's the route I would go. Even better if you can become a millwright.

I have yet to find a professional Master's degree that is actually useful. MBA? Trash. MPH? Double trash.
The only reason to get a master's is if you want to work towards a PhD and live in academia. The only graduate degrees worth a damn otherwise are medicine, law, dentistry and perhaps engineering.

>>351
OP I am going to be frank with you: Discussions about college degrees on the internet are 99.99% vibes-based and people who have no understanding of the subject think they're qualified to talk out of their ass about it. In particular people who fellate "the trades". It's become a cultural signifier, there's basically no facts involved and even the anecdotes are unreliable at best.
I would speak with an actual counselor and figure out what exactly your future career prospects would look like, and then with that baseline you can do further research from there. Obviously the counselor is part of the university so they wouldn't give an absolutely objective viewpoint, but they would still give you a general idea of what exactly it is you're looking at career-wise.
Is it actually true that you could get a job with the degree you already have? Have you tried to figure that out? You would know better than us. It's your money/debt, your desires, your time.

>>441
>99.99% vibes-based and people who have no understanding of the subject think they're qualified to talk out of their ass about it. In particular people who fellate "the trades". It's become a cultural signifier, there's basically no facts involved and even the anecdotes are unreliable at best.


Bruh, I hear more people fellating college degrees and treating trades as fascist breeding grounds