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With Christmas bonuses from the job you hate securely deposited into your checking account, you may be starting to consider leaving once and for all to go back to school. This is a decision that I and many of my peers have made, and it’s certainly one I don’t regret for a second. However, going back to school means acquiring additional loans and forgoing a couple years’ worth of income, so you need to be careful when selecting your continuing education degree to make sure that it’s actually worth it, financially speaking. Forbes is here to help, because they just released the ten best and worst Master’s degrees for your career that you can get in 2016, so let’s check out what the experts have to say.
Top 10 Master’s Degrees For Jobs In 2016
10. Software Engineering
9. Occupational Therapy
8. Physician Assistant Studies
7. Computer Science
6. Management Information Systems
5. Physical Therapy
4. Communication Sciences and Disorders
3. Speech-Language Pathology
2. Statistics
1. BiostatisticsWorst 10 Master’s Degrees For Jobs In 2016
10. Architecture
9. Theology
8. Elementary Education
7. Taxation
6. Art History
5. Journalism
4. Library Science
3. Construction Management
2. Sports Management
1. Criminal Justice
These Master’s degrees were ranked by their associated career paths, early- and mid-level pay, and projected future job growth, because what good is an awesome career if your job gets replaced by a robot in 10 years? As usual, STEM-related fields dominated the list, and communications and arts-related degrees don’t get you very far. If you graduated with a liberal arts degree and don’t want to have to use Excel in your professional life, it may be better to polish your resume and start job-hopping a bit to get the experience you need to rise to the top of your career ladder. For the rest of us, it’s time to break out your graphing calculators, because you’re going to need them for the first day of class. .
[via Forbes]
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Steph W.
Steph W. is a new Master's degree graduate with an intern's salary and six-figure taste. She realizes her expectations far exceed reality, so she spends her days pinning away Loubs she pretends are in her physical closet instead of her virtual one. Her hobbies include attempting to trapping her boyfriend into marriage before he finds out how insane she is and pretending that Black Box wine tastes as good as the kind she could afford when she was gainfully employed. Send her tips for getting out of student debt at recruitchairtsm@gmail.com
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Christmas bonus. Hah.
Annual raises too. Nonexistent.
Annual raises that don’t even keep up with inflation. PGP.
What’s a raise?
All too real
My first company out of graduation gave me a $500 Christmas bonus. I thought that was the norm until I just received a $50 grocery gift card for this year’s Christmas bonus with the company I’ve been with for 11 months. I guess it’s still better than nothing though.
First company I worked for have me a 2000$ Christmas bonus, new company $50 Walmart gift card.
Shit, Theology is number 9 of the worst.
To be fair subjects like theology, art history arnt studied with conventional job prospects in mind
Just ask our buddy Nathaniel from the NYT Most Hipster Marriage Announcement Ever.
How many takes do you guys think this stock photo took?
My first thought
1+photoshop
I think you are right, judging by the over hand motion and release point of the person on the far left kinda shows that his cap would not have went straight up……….annnnnnnnnd I should probably get back to work.
nice to see my mba is in the meaty part of the bell curve
There are so many MBA programs. I think the top tier schools are still good value.
Getting a Master’s in Tax doesn’t necessarily boost your current earnings today, but it is a great way to get the 150 hours for the CPA and add a masters to your board. The alternative is to take 30 random hours not related to accounting.
Yes! Thank you. My thoughts exactly
sup
Stole the words right out of my mouth.
I ended up getting a MBA in Tax. The extra tax classes helped when passing REG (it was my highest score overall) and the general MBA classes helped round me out…
But keep fighting the good fight!
I didn’t consider that in my statement. Great rout Pete! I was just saying that ranking a masters in accounting or tax in the same breath as criminal justice is criminal indeed. Almost as criminal as Tim in his pink dresses
No mention of the MBA?
Physical therapy is a doctoral program.
Kinda surprised about Architecture and Construction Management being so low. Everyone I know who got their masters in those is pulling in 100-120k right now…
Market might be saturated.
Plus it’s like the first profession to cut jobs the moment the economy turns
Ted would know
STEM doesn’t necessarily dominate. Most natural sciences look down on Masters because it looks like you just failed out of a PhD program
This article came out in August…. dw still like you guys