The Promise and Perils of Master’s Degrees

In The News Piece in Inside Higher Ed
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Nov. 16, 2021

In Inside Higher Ed, Kevin Carey's piece referring to obtaining a graduate degree as the “great master’s-degree swindle" in the Chronicle of Higher Education.

Are master’s degrees destroying the futures of Americans just trying to get ahead? You might think so if you read the host of recent articles about graduate education. Kevin Carey called it the “great master’s-degree swindle.” Anne Helen Petersen wrote a series about “the Master’s trap.” Melissa Korn and Andrea Fuller described students “hobbled for life” by the debt accrued in master’s programs.

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