| Atana is painting all debt with the same brush- bad, evil, brought to you by venal colleges and irresponsible banks.
I would not have (nor would I encourage my kids) taken on debt for a Master's in Counseling, a Master's in Mass Communications, or a Master's in Labor Relations (the advanced degrees held by three junior members of my team.) Each of them could easily have gotten their current job with a BA; there's no evidence that the networking provided by their schools has been at all beneficial professionally; many companies won't even recruit for Master's level candidates on campus. They didn't learn enough to be subject matter experts in their fields, and the alumni associations are non-existent.
That doesn't mean that all master's degrees are bad. |