If you have more than one master's degree

[Anonymous]

what are they in? why the need for more than one?

[Anonymous]

Masters degree and MD. Public health and then decided to be a doctor

[Anonymous]

That's a masters and doctorate, not two masters.

[Anonymous]

Oh. I assumed you wanted to know why someone with a Mastere degree moved on to even higher education.
Can I use sleep deprivation from overnight shifts as an excuse?

[Anonymous]

Statistics and psychology. Psychology one was necessary to get a PhD.

[Anonymous]

Lot of military folks have more than one, but the military paid for it.

[Anonymous]

I have a Masters degree in the subject I teach (high school). I got it because I love the subject and having true expertise in this area vastly enhances my ability to teach/explain it to my students.

I also have a Masters degree in Education, which I needed to get teaching certification because my undergrad degree was also in my subject, not Education. The coursework for the Ed degree was childishly, almost insultingly simple, and I'm still pissed off that it cost as much as the academic degree. The sheer simplicity and uselessness of that Ed degree compared to the academic MA make me fear for the quality of education in our secondary schools.

[Anonymous]

^^ interesting. as someone contemplating going into teaching, this sadly confirms my suspicions. Hoping it's not universally true.

[Anonymous]

I have two because my employer paid for it and I was single and didn't have any friends or any other kind of a life.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have a Masters degree in the subject I teach (high school). I got it because I love the subject and having true expertise in this area vastly enhances my ability to teach/explain it to my students.

I also have a Masters degree in Education, which I needed to get teaching certification because my undergrad degree was also in my subject, not Education. The coursework for the Ed degree was childishly, almost insultingly simple, and I'm still pissed off that it cost as much as the academic degree. The sheer simplicity and uselessness of that Ed degree compared to the academic MA make me fear for the quality of education in our secondary schools.

Sounds like it was just a bad program. What school was it? I attended a leadership program at a very prestigious school for all of one semester. The curriculum was insulting and did not provide any preparation for taking on a leadership role in a school. Perhaps why our schools are lacking strong leaders.

[Anonymous]

My sister has two. One in literature that she got straight after undergrad, then a mid-career one from the Kennedy school at Harvard that she got about 15 years later. That one was much more practical, obviously.

[Anonymous]

MS in engineering and MBA. Different skill sets that I use daily in my career. Neither was unnecessary, though it helped that my employer paid for most of both degrees.

[Anonymous]

DH has an MBA, an MA in clinical psychology and an MS in computing and information science. Each one was a change of career move. It took him a long time to figure out what he was going to be when he grew up. He also has two bachelors - one in psychology and one in nursing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:DH has an MBA, an MA in clinical psychology and an MS in computing and information science. Each one was a change of career move. It took him a long time to figure out what he was going to be when he grew up. He also has two bachelors - one in psychology and one in nursing.

Did he pay for all of them and consider each worthwhile?

[Anonymous]

I have an MSW and an MPH. Both earned separately, both paid for by me with loans and some grants. Neither worth it, esp the MSW (total regret). I wish I had done something else and now I can't because of the student loans.

Undergrad was in something else (econ).