• This is fine🔥🐶☕🔥@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    Is master’s degree common in the West?

    Bachelor’s degree is much more common where I’m from. After that people are usually keen to get a job and start earning.

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      6 months ago

      It’s becoming far more common, yes. I’m not really sure what all of these people are doing with master’s degrees nowadays. But at least in the US, a master’s degree seems to be the new bachelor’s degree. Higher education is all a racket.

      Granted, I do say this as someone with a master’s degree. My master’s degree actually was incredibly useful to me though and not something pointless like underwater basket weaving. Mine helped me make a healthy wage (at the expense of student loan debt, but it all works out).