MA ADMISSIONS: Info session for MS students
From Dean Klatell.
To all M.S. Students:
As you know, next Tuesday evening (1/17) we’ll be holding an information session on the M.A. program in the lecture hall. I urge you to attend, because much information as well as current participants (faculty and students, not just administrators) will be available. Dean Lemann will orchestrate the discussions.
Frankly, this is the best time to consider applying for the program: the job market is tight, so the extra expertise gained in the M.A. will give you extra oomph in the eyes of employers; tight times in industry inevitably produce a surge of people heading back to various kinds of graduate schools, preparing themselves to be more-attractive candidates for the smaller number of jobs, when employers can be much pickier in their recruitment efforts. And the M.A. doesn’t duplicate what you’re gaining from the M.S. - - it provides not only greater specialization, depth and mastery of in-demand subject matter, but employs a very different model of teaching and learning, habits of the mind which have their own, intrinsic value over the course of your career. The faulty is terrific, the classes very small (half the size of the average M.S. class) and the students committed, eager and engaged.
You may also want to remember that the university’s substantial financial support for this program offers M.A. students this wonderful education at an amazingly low price – a situation that cannot be counted on to last forever. So, if you’re interested, come to the briefing and Q&A Tuesday evening, and be prepared to fill out an application quite quickly; as you are aware, we’ve extended the deadline by a couple of weeks, but it rapidly approaches.
Regards,
DK
