There’s always the master’s degree in “Happiness Studies”.
You can now buy happiness for the low, low cost of $17,700.
For mine, it was. It doubled the salary of everyone, on average.
Undergraduate Degrees aren't even worth it, now.
This pretty much confirms what I think that most people with common sense already know: if you want to be a doctor, lawyer or dentist, yes, you have to go to grad school. And it makes sense for a number of STEM careers. MBAs are a waste of time until you’re going to one of a handful of prestigious programs like Wharton or Harvard or Stanford.
Everything else... forget it. Or, I should say, forget it with respect to making any money on it. I mean, sure if it make you happy to have a master’s degree in dance or creative writing, do it but don’t expect any sort of return on your investment.
DVMs, maybe.
PHds, MSs, maybe, depending on if they're in a hard science.
MAs, probably not.
My MBA was a pretty good investment. Wouldn’t have been able to get my current jobs without it.
My MBA changed my life. I use the techniques I learned there not only in every aspect of my work, but in every aspect of my personal financial life. An MBA should be considered a liberal arts degree. It doesn’t just prepare you for a profession, it prepares you to live more wisely.
My MBA has been helpful in my career. My JD on the other hand hasn’t done much for me - yes I passed the bar.
I am currently finishing by Masters in Biblical Studies, preparatory for a position as a Pastor in a church.
Most churches will not even consider someone who does not have a Master of Divinity degree.
Although I do have to admit some of the classes were incredibly helpful and interesting.
As for the pay angle, it will not pay for itself and I never considered whether it would. I just want to be a pastor.
Unfortunately, most kids are not shown this study.
They are told they MUST get college degree, spend lots of money and time learning useless things and then end up with lots of student debt, bussing the tables.
If they learn plumbing or electrician trade, they will be a lot better of!
If they yield greater ability to produce would be worth it.
Too many are just more classes with no tangible improvement other than self esteem.
Not if the degree is in something ending in the word STUDIES!
The comment about Duke reminded me about a school in Phoenix. In the 1970s in was called Thunderbird School of International Business. You had to have a language and at the end of the year they had a job fair where teams built a sales program for a U.S. Corporation in a foreign country. Over the years many tier 1 corporations built a large part of their overseas teams from that fair.
Corporations like graduate degrees. They are usually useless degrees as they rarely add anything to a person’s knowledge, but companies want them so people go and get them. Most graduate programs are participation trophies in that if you spend the time and submit poorly written papers you will pass.
Definitely for grievance-studies majors.
Most people are not going to be doctors or engineers or biologists. That is the only thing I can see going to college for 4 years.
Anything else should take less then a year to learn. You get hired at a company and someone there tells you how things work.
It is what you do with the knowledge you have learned that matters. You can be book smart but dumb as a rock.
Experience counts.