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JonathanRackham

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2. I think my daughter has the right idea.

Reply to n2doc (Original post)

Mon Nov 30, 2015, 10:48 AM

Nov 2015

She's starting on her MBA next fall. She's working full time and her employer is partially funding her degree. She worked out the detail before applying to school, if she wasn't going to get funding then she'd of figured out another way to go for the MBA.

I think colleges & universities oversell the potential of a masters & doctorates degree. My wife has a masters in architecture, her cousin has a masters in library science. Both degrees qualified them for jobs a buck over minimum wage to start (back then). The degree programs benefit the professors and institutions, not the students. Then you become a slave to the lending institutions.

At least if you become a medical doctor you can sell a kidney to pay off your loans.

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PhDs need real jobs too [View all] n2doc Nov 2015 OP

Bookmarking to read later. geardaddy Nov 2015 #1

I think my daughter has the right idea. JonathanRackham Nov 2015 #2

One of the many reasons I withdrew from my PhD program... DeadLetterOffice Nov 2015 #3

well, the important thing is that the state budgets are smaller, there's less jobs overall, MisterP Nov 2015 #4