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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why am I thinking that this is one of those waste of time masters that DC area SAHMs LOVE to get -- public health; public policy; non profit administration etc. And at the end while you come out with "connections," you're still only looking at a 50k job. Strictly from an ROI perspective, it isn't worth paying 50k/yr for 2 yrs for a masters that will result in a 50k job.[/quote]

Or worse. There's a reason she refuses to say what it is. [/quote]

Lol -- non profit administration is the degree du jour for SAHMs these days. Every 3rd SAHM I know who needs to get back into the work force is pursuing it. I think it's bc they've been out for so long that the only things they can relate to anymore is volunteer work -- i.e. PTA; bake sales and the like -- so why not try to find a career with an organization that's entire mission is volunteer related, not profit related.[/quote]

The worst is when some overpriced diploma mill convinces people to spend a ridiculous amount of money on it (see also: law schools).[/quote]

Yep. Though I don't understand why people get so blinded by I MUST GET ANOTHER DEGREE that they refuse to do any research. How hard is it to look at employment stats (with a critical eye that they can be pumped up to look better); talk to recent grads; go to events like the prospective MBA posting earlier did where she asked about salaries pre/post MBA for that school and found that no one even had a new job and many were SAHMs who thought the MBA was valuable for "contacts" to have coffee with!? Use Harvard/or whichever Ivy has your program for what you want to do -- as the bellwether and then see how far your school's stats are below that and then decide . . . .[/quote]

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