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If you could take any Master's degree paid for right now, what would you get and why?

>> No.1779379

I probably wouldn't get one, honestly.

I already have one and my feeling is that the payoff is really low and the years spent on it would be better spent on making a business.

>> No.1779390

Medicine

>> No.1779442

>>1779390
Lol, good one

>> No.1779469

>>1779390
Medicine is a total meme.

>> No.1779575

>>1779326
I would go into tissue engineering so I can create a viable alternative to livestock and possibly save this god forsaken planet from all the environmental harm being caused by animal agriculture.

>> No.1779584

>>1779326
I would go into animal agriculture so I can negate a viable alternative to livestock and possibly kill this god forsaken planet from all the environmental good being caused by tissue engineering.

>> No.1779595

>>1779584
Be careful, your cognitive dissonance is showing.

>> No.1779883

>>1779469
A total meme?

It's probably one of the few majors that won't lead you into a mid-life crisis where you regret whatever else you did

>> No.1779901

>angle for a postdoc
>obtain one in economics
>be guaranteed a high salaried job

>> No.1779906

>>1779883
Only because you're be starting fresh out of school at mid-life.

>> No.1779922

>>1779901
>business degrees

absolutely useless if not a CFA or CPA. you'd be better of just padding your resume with experience

>> No.1779930

>>1779326
feminist literature and gender studies

>> No.1779933

>>1779906
At least it's not as boring as business and the others wannabe-sciences.

>> No.1779939

>>1779933
That's subjective, Mr. Nye.

>> No.1779940

>>1779326
This one is easy for me. MBA in Project Management would get me into a director position in a year in my current career.

>> No.1779946

>>1779939
Indeed it is.
But c'mon, I've studied both.
Business is some pseudo-science and absolutely useless without experience. Don't get me wrong, with experience it's cool. But since most business majors doesn't require internships etc., I know too many people that end up learning that meme stuff

>> No.1779949

Finance degree at harvard

>> No.1779954

>>1779946
Same could be said for Medicine. How many people start out wanting to be doctors and end up with, "Mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell" and that's it.

Also, I challenge calling business as a pseduo-science. Marketing, Management, sure. But Econ and Finance is like psychics applied to money.

Accounting is more like a law degree, so I wouldn't consider it scientific.

>> No.1779957

>>1779954
Physics.

Boilerroom stock brokers are like psychics applied to money.

>> No.1779963

>>1779954
True, that's what I meant. Management and Marketing are memes. Quantfin maybe not, but how many people are studying that compared to marketing?
Medicine however, is not, at least IMO. Plus, most med school require internships, experience etc., so it isn't becoming a meme and solely a "social status-degree" like business

>> No.1779975

>>1779963
Fair enough. Marketing and management (and low level business admin) degrees are a joke for people that just want to say they finished something.

Accounting, Econ, Finance degreescan be paired with interships as a stepping stone to very lucrative jobs in the business world.

Shoot. This isn't as fun if we agree. Fuck your mother.

>> No.1779980

>>1779975
>This isn't as fun if we agree
This is not pol or b tho

>> No.1779991

>>1779963
If i went with medicine, id end up working for 20h/day for garbage pay at a disease infested hospital.
Went with management instead.

>> No.1779995

>>1779922
oh, he doesn't know about the econ phd job market

do your googles

>> No.1780009

>>1779991
depends on the country.
In some countries, you rather go with management.
Doesn't change the fact that it's a pseudo-science.

>> No.1781038

Computer Science.

>> No.1781054

>>1779326

None of them really.

The masters/PhD meme is about to crash like the hindenberg.

If you can't succeed on a bachelors then either you picked the wrong bachelor's or you are not acting right.

>> No.1781062

>>1779326
comp-sci with a focus on security or machine learning

>> No.1781066

I'm doing a masters in information systems at a pretty good school. I basically applied because I can do it full-time while still working in a related field. Where I work you also need a masters (any masters) to move up so the main thing I lose is time, which you should be willing to give up.

>> No.1781068

Maths, honestly. I'm on a STEM jobs mailing list and loads of hedgefunds keep emailing me about jobs "Ph.D. in Maths/ highly mathematical science required"