question about masters

[Ezteq]

No this isn't a Dr Who related thread...sorry guys! It's about a masters course I have found that I would quite like to do after I finish my undergrad degree and I wonder if any of you have done or can recommend anything similar or if anyone has done this one and has any feedback about it

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Also, I am hoping to try and get a scholarship and wonder if anyone can give me some information about those if any of you have (or know anyone who has) had one, like how to apply etc etc

Many thanks
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[Job]

I think this tumbleweed thread might be an insight to the future of the degree.

 

[kirennia]

All I can add (currently looking at doing one myself too) is that it all has to be personally funded so if you can't get a scholarship, you're going to have to save. I'm also completely unsure as to whether masters fees are due for the same rise as undergraduate courses. It's what is basically forcing me to go back this year as I ultimately want to get into research...

 

[Ezteq]

lol tumbleweed yes, thanks for the replies, I'd forgotten I had asked this hehe

 

[Will]

I had a friend that did a similar masters in 1999. She is here now so I'll ask her how much use it was.

"Ann, in your own words, how useful was your masters?"

"Err, I'm still a secretary."

"Anything else to add to that?"

"Err, that was in the run-up to the Y2K bug and the teaching was shit, so this one might be better. Mine worked out that the grant was as good as my wage so I didn't lose anything by doing it."

The problem with courses like these are that they aren't specialist enough to get a job in IT. If you are doing your initial degree in business or management it would be useful for having geek underlings but that is about it. In my opinion.

 

[DaGaffer]

Have you tried the ESRC? They sometimes have postgrad funding for certain courses (I did my masters with a grant from them, but that was about a thousand years ago).

*edit* read Will's post, have to say my experience was a bit different, having an MSc definitely helped separate me from the herd. In the early years after college it was probably what got my CV read (with a an OK BSc from an middle of the road Uni), rather than placed in the round filing cabinet.

 

[old.Tohtori]

Do a masters on masters, yes the Doctor Who kind.

Plenty to discuss and argue over those, ways to implement the teachings there of into reality and all that crap teachers love

 

[Ezteq]

ha I did an a level essay on shakespeares influences on star trek so why the heck not!!

Cheers for even more input, nice to have different perspectives to consider