Professional master's degrees have a proven record of benefitting science-oriented individuals, reorienting their career towards nontraditional fields.
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Theodosiou, M., Rennard, JP. & Amir-Aslani, A. The rise of the professional master's degree: the answer to the postdoc/PhD bubble. Nat Biotechnol 30, 367–368 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1038/nbt.2180
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