Same as you, it’s what I have asked and heard from people who hires engineers. But I don’t see anything you wrote contradicting with what I have wrote. Can you please specify what don’t match?
That’s exactly what I said. MS programs are usually full pay for everyone.
The other one, 3+2 Caltech master’s used to be funded, in the beginning at least. There are other very rare programs that are not financial burden. They are so rare I put “(rare)” each time I mentioned them.
Almost everywhere. But not everywhere. There are some employers who would only hire newly graduated engineers from top 10~15 name brand schools, as official policy, while they don’t care it for experienced engineers. They are not common and, in my opinion, you can just ignore them while applying colleges.
If you were talking about MS prestige won’t completely cure lack of BS prestige at such employers, well a manager told me several years ago that he wouldn’t discriminate based on BS degree if a candidate has MS degree. But now he tells me otherwise that where you got BS is more important than where you got MS if that’s your terminal degree, and advises against such 4+1 program’s small boost unless the cost don’t matter. So there is an anecdotal data.