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To: longnshort who wrote (43056)	5/7/2013 6:38:50 PM
From: J_F_Shepard	Read Replies (2) of 85487

What a ditz.......most larger companies will pay for some or all of college work for their employees if they go to school on their own time. Generally, the course work is required to be towards a degree and in a field of interest to the employer..... Don't confuse that with graduate assistantships.... "My son can get his grad degree in anything he wants and the company pays for it" And who knows, someday he may get it.....but it won't be a degree in "anything he wants".... Think about it. Ask him if the company will pay for a grad degree in eg, biology, history, English, Spanish, archeology etc etc... "why would you want to narrow your grad degree to go with some research prof" Narrow your degree? You josh... You go to gain the knowledge and experience of working in a lab environment on your own research project with your prof as advisor and you write a thesis on that work. If you go on for a PhD your research must be original (on the advisor's project) and the thesis is screened, reviewed, and blessed by faculty committees. Reviews are oral and written... As a manager of many years we used BS degreed kids largely in technician roles. Some blossomed and advanced far up the technical ladder. But most of the high level engineers are PhD's. When they arrive at their new company they hit the ground running and need far less supervision of their work which is high level.

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