Is it worth it to do a business masters first?
My school offers a one year master's of management that you can do after you complete your bachelor's degree.
I still want to get an Oceanography degree, but I have some reaons for wanting to do this program first.
- I want to go into fisheries management, and I feel like having a business education will help them take me more seriously
- waiting an extra year will mean that my Oceanography masters will occur after Trump is out of office. I think the states have amazing programs, but I wouldn't want to go until I know how the administration is doing. I have citizenship there, but it's the kind where my parents were on a working visa.
3)I think it will make it easier to get into a good Oceanography program if I have more evidence that I can succeed in Masters program. I don't have the best grades (2.67), but I've been focusing on completing research papers so far to help bolster my chances. From what I've heard, this program is pretty easy to get into as a recent student.
4) I think it would be nice to have a change of pace. I grew up working in the family business, so I already have a lot of foundational experience with these courses. A lot of my arts credits were business courses because I found them fun, so I'm expecting the course load to not feel too heavy in comparison to what I'd expect from an Oceanography program.
5) I could keep my house and my lab positions for another year. I could keep building up my faculty connections, likely complete an extra paper and get better letters of reference. I'd appreciate not having to find a job or a house for another year. Especially if I'm predicting the program will be less busy than I am right now, it would be nicer to work on applications then, compared to doing them now during my bachelors.
But obviously I have no clue what I'm talking about. These are just assumptions I'm making, and I'd like to hear from other people what they think about this plan.
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