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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Well, yes.  I went to Harvard College and it is/was well known that HKS is a vanity degree.  One of my friends dated an older guy in HKS and helped him with his "homework", which was shockingly simple and childlike.  They do a lot of group projects with silly pretend assignments.  The purpose of their program is "making connections", I was told.

And I will never, ever forget seeing some business school bros (in their 30s?) doing keg stands at an undergrad party, trying desperately for the "Harvard experience."  None of those guys would have been admitted to Harvard College or to a real graduate program.[/quote]

Do you think having too many masters' programs would dilute the Harvard brand name? Like I know a lot of foreigners like to flaunt their HES master's degree. I was surprised to see how [b]many master's students there are at Harvard[/b], considering it's got a $40 billion endowment and should have no need for these supposedly cash cow/vanity programs.  [/quote]

In case you don't know how PhD programs work in academic fields, the PhD program that includes a Masters portion, people who don't "cut it" leave with the Masters and those who do, do their research and write their dissertation to get the PhD.  Those programs are generally not money producing and students are not only given free tuition but also stipends to teach or be research assistants.  I am sure that Harvard has many "such" Masters students in your count.  [/quote]

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