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How to game the U.S. higher-education system

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Re: How to game the U.S. higher-education system

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"In most careers, a Master's degree is required". Really?

That's what I've heard from my professors. Bachelor level gets you working in the lower levels with the possibility to move up fairly small. Masters get working making more money and are the ones considered for promotions over any others barring PhDs.

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Re: How to game the U.S. higher-education system

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"In most careers, a Master's degree is required". Really?

That's what I've heard from my professors. Bachelor level gets you working in the lower levels with the possibility to move up fairly small. Masters get working making more money and are the ones considered for promotions over any others barring PhDs.

But... The professoriat generally knows very little about industry and also have a built-in bias to pushing people towards more education.

Re: How to game the U.S. higher-education system

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I just want to note, as Brown grad (he specifically points to Brown rather randomly), that unless your parents are "rich" but won't give you any money, you will never have 100k in debt from Brown or any "elite" school. That's just not how it works. Now I'm not saying you don't leave with debt--most of my friends have 20k or so in debt. I have about 9k, but that not the radically high number that is being quoting. The…

If I started a business and someone in their late 20s is still talking about how they went to Harvard rather than how they've used their time since graduating, I wouldn't hire them. The only thing the degree does is get you an interview you should have got through networking.

> The only thing the degree does is get you an interview > you should have got through networking.

And maybe you also gained some useful skills.

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