Half of graduates with professional science master's degrees find jobs soon after graduating.
About 52% of people who graduated from US professional science master's (PSM) programmes in 2010–11 had new jobs 1–6 months after earning their degrees, says a survey. Outcomes for PSM Alumni: 2010/11, released on 23 August by the US Council of Graduate Schools (CGS) in Washington DC, found that 39% of those with new jobs had secured them through internships associated with their PSM. CGS president Debra Stewart found the numbers encouraging. “Employers are seeing the value of the PSM,” she says. Most of the jobs were research related. The survey had 320 responses from graduates of 58 PSM programmes. Advocates call the PSM a viable alternative to the PhD.
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Degree brings prospects. Nature 477, 123 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/nj7362-123c
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