It's no secret that I am skeptical about graduate school. However, I do wonder what all these people supposedly applying to law and graduate school are thinking. The big legal firms paid the associates they hired to do other things for a year. The legal job market is dismal. And seriously, a master's degree in liberal arts? Grad school is supposed to give you a specialization.
There's a point where more education doesn't help and it just makes you overqualified for the job market. Hello, I am Kerry's MLIS. It would be better to take the money and try to open up your own business.
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They're doing it to wait out the economic malaise. The thing with full-time liberal arts grad degrees is that you can often get yourself a teaching assistantship or fellowship that covers tuition and minimal living expenses (and sometimes basic health insurance is thrown in), so that it's not a horrible financial deal.
Its one thing to go to grad school but LAW SCHOOL?! We have too many lawyers as is.
Wende, did you hear about the Croxhall paper @ MLA?
Some know that going to grad school, particularly in the humanities, is a bad idea unless you can get full funding, but I just think that there's not enough fellowships to go around and a lot of people pile on the debt to get out of the economy. Long term strategy FAIL.
Graphs that back up everything you say:
http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2010/01/07/the-costs-and-benefits-of-grad-school/
My half sister is a medical sonographer, you get do this job with a certificate or an associates degree, she has been doing it 5 years and only recently has considered becoming state certified, she makes $50,000/year in Columbus, Ohio!
Clearly grad school is a rip off. Only way I'd get another grad degree is if it was paid for by my employer (in something useful that was IT or business related). If I had known there were well paying jobs in the medical field that did not subject me to blood and guts I would have gone for it. Right now I have too much debt to consider getting another degree but if I land a position at a community college library with tuition reimbursement I might do it.
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