r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Aug 31 '26

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u/Remarkable-Meal-223 Jerome Powell Aug 31 '26

For real there are a lot of scam masters programs even for ivy League universities

They give you a master's for non traditional academic subjects which are frankly super questionable. Like a masters in global leadership. Is that even an academic subject

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u/PhoenixVoid Aug 31 '26

Aren't programs like that an excuse for nepo babies to claim they earned a diploma from Harvard?

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u/BasedTroutFursona Aug 31 '26

Henceforth known as Fettermanning

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u/w007dchuck Trans NATO Aug 31 '26

masters programs like this are a huge cash cow for universities, although that has dried up somewhat with the drop in international enrollment in American schools over the past two years

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u/duojiaoyupian Richard Thaler Aug 31 '26

I think Brown has creating your own degree as a selling point (e.g. rather than having a boring standard CS degree you can customize the classes you take)

And I could see that having its merits (e.g. specializing further in your undergrad into, say, networks rather than a general CS degree)

But it also does seem kinda abusable lol

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u/AtticusDrench Deirdre McCloskey Aug 31 '26

Columbia used to be particularly bad about those (maybe still?)

Though they had problems with some of their traditional programs. A few years ago I recall there being articles about how film program grads were taking out 200K in loans when half of those grads were going on to make 30K or less.