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<p>Again, outside of the government, I don’t think most employers would care. If Russian fluency were really crucial to the job, being from America could be a disadvantage, if anything. I would probably rather have somebody with a law degree from Moscow State than an American who wrote a thesis on Dostoyevsky. And there are probably enough of the former to satisfy what demand there is.</p>
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<p>Which doesn’t mean there are “real needs in the marketplace” for the joint degree, just that some people who have the joint degree happen to have jobs. </p>
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<p>And what everyone is saying is that you uncritically accept what they tell you because it’s what you want to hear. Having two “independent” salesmen sell you on the same product with the same lines doesn’t mean you’ve verified the accuracy of their claims. How do you know that they’re giving you an accurate picture of all the graduates and not just picking a couple successful examples? Is there any reason to think they couldn’t have gotten the jobs without the masters degree? Do you even know that these jobs are as great as they seem? Plenty of crappy schools could somewhat honestly tell you that their grads work on major cases and deals for leading international firms, neglecting to mention that they’re doing so as contract attorneys reviewing endless documents in a windowless basement. But I guess it’s better to be blissfully ignorant than “cynical”.</p>