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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]It's not relevant to my question so I'm not going to. But it's a hard science/STEM. [/quote]

Are you sure this degree is really going to be that helpful to you in that case?  My husband is an engineer, my brother is a physicist, and my sister is a chemist.   None of them thought a masters would really help jump start a career in their fields.  [/quote]x

NP - in my part of the STEM world, having a graduate degree is pretty much required to be in the game, so OP's goals ring true to me. At my organization, we wouldn't even look at a resume for most positions if the applicant didn't at least have a masters. I've seen people get in the door with just a bachelors, but it's VERY rare, and most of those people eventually hit a career wall and then go back to school for an advanced degree.  Even many of the small non-profit folks that I've worked with outside of DC seem to have masters.

For a STEM field, I would normally advice students to look at a program that offers some sort of research or teaching assistantship that covers most/all of the tuition, but those research-focused programs take longer to complete than the more compressed policy-oriented programs....for the OP it sounds like time is a bigger issue than money, so she might as well take the faster route.[/quote]

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