Which schools should one consider for DMA (violin)?

compmom
Tue, 23 Feb 2016 02:28:34 +0000

I just want to clarify that I don’t think of the term “degree inflation” as having any negative connotation about the degree itself. To me, degree inflation refers to a characteristic of the marketplace. In other words, my uncle was chair of a college English department with a BA, several decades ago, then a master’s was required and now of course a PhD would be needed. I think he would have thrived doing a PhD and if he had been able to do that, the degree itself would certainly have been substantive and not “inflated.” He ended up writing a well-known book, play and poetry, some of which might have been done more easily with the funding and protective umbrella of a doctoral program. However, in those days, the marketplace did not demand such a degree. So to me, the term degree inflation simply means that a master’s now equals what a bachelor’s once was, and so on- in the marketplace.