Should I plan on going to graduate school?

College Life
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<p>How do people decide whether to go to graduate school? Do some majors go to grad school more than others? Should all majors plan on it? I’m majoring in fashion/apparel merchandising, and I have no idea what I’d study in graduate school if I went.</p>

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<p>Going to graduate school makes you waaaaay more competitive in your field of study and allows you to make waaaayy more money too</p>

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<p>what do YOU want to do with your life/career</p>

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<p>yay for being more competative in a given field :)</p>

<p>boooo for another $100K in debt :(</p>

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<p>Actually, going to grad school is /not/ beneficial for all careers. For example, I want to be a journalist…and honestly, grad school isn’t what is going to give me the competitive edge; experience will (interestingly enough, a lot of journalists actually scoff at graduate degrees for their profession). Most actuaries won’t have a graduate degree, but once they begin work they will also start to study to pass a series of exams, successful completion of which is basically the equivalent of earning a professional degree. I don’t know much about the fashion field, but that sounds like another profession where getting a job is going to be more beneficial than four more years of school. </p>

<p>So, basically, whether or not graduate school is going to be beneficial to you really, really, really depends on what job you’re going to get! Do some research…google…talk to career advisors at your school…talk to CURRENT EMPLOYEES IN YOUR PREDICTED FIELD…whatever ;).</p>

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<p>With fashion/apparel merchandising you don’t need a Masters. It also depends what aspect of the merchandising industry you want to cover.</p>

<p>If you want to do sales in a wholesale showroom, I recommend forget about going to school, and just intern at a showroom and get experience. The fashion industry is all about experiance.If you want to do visuals, get experiance. So on and so on.</p>

<p>However, if you want to be in the corporate side of a huge fashion/clothing company/group a masters degree in business would help. Although you would need to have work experiance before you go on to get an MBA.</p>