What situations does someone need to get a master's?

JPNguyen
Fri, 03 Oct 2008 21:04:50 +0000

I don’t think I can get a good scholarship to it.



Apply to a PhD program and work as a TA/Tutor. Many PhD programs will actually provide you with a stipend/tuition reimbursement. That would lower your costs. The bad thing is that you’ll have to commit to completing a PhD.

You may assume that there’s nothing you can do with a PhD or that you’ll be overqualified or that you’ll become a professor. Generally, students that complete PhD programs usually do so for the love of academics; thus they become professors.

That doesn’t have to be you. The professor part