21 January 2013

The pros and cons of doing a master’s degree

I am the program coordinator for the biology master’s degree at my university, so I obviously have a vested interest in this question. A conversation about it broke out on Twitter on Sunday, which I present here without commentary (yet).

1 comment:

Jeremy Fox said...

This old post has some discussion of the reasons to do, or avoid, an MSc in ecology.

http://dynamicecology.wordpress.com/2012/02/12/advice-how-to-choose-a-phd-program/

Also, one thing that strikes me from your Storify is how people in some fields seem not to be aware that some features of their field--such as whether or not MSc students get funding--are not universal.