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id say go for the masters but my guess is if your first degree is totally unrelated you will proably have to spend a year (2 semsters) taking some basic courses before you can apply for the masters.
So lets say you graduated with a English degree and you want to get a Masters in accountancy. I am only speaking on behalf of one program ( I don't know if other programs are similar), you would have to take 1-2 semsters of basic accounting classes i.e... Intro to managerial, finical, advanced managerial, finiacial etc... before you can apply to the masters.
Now lets say you had a friend who majored in finance and for whatever reason he wanted a Masters in Accountancy. Since his undergrad degree proably entailed the basic accounting courses already, he can jump right into the masters whereas you will have to spend 1-2 semsters playing catch up-In the end you can BOTH take the masters, just he will take it sooner. The same can be said of accelerated nursing programs, if your degree is unrelated you will have to spend a semster or so taking the prerequistes before applying to the program.
Now in terms of Masters vs 2nd degree. Id say even with "playing catch up" Masters is still faster, better perhaps even cheaper (though one could argue). I would only go 2nd degree if you want to take the courses at an "easier", undergraduate pace.
I was thinking that as well. My main point of interest, though, is what the benefit of two Bachelor's degrees is over having a Masters. To me it seems a little redundant. People do it though, which makes me wonder what the benefits are.
I've never heard of anyone with two bachelor degrees. If I were a hiring manager, that would be a HUGE red flag.
If you want to change careers to a technical field, they won't let you jump straight into graduate school.
You need to often do the prereqs which are so numerous, they equate to a 2nd bachelors degree. Engineering and nursing come to mind.
Others do a 2nd bachelors degree to reform their first or make a 2nd slate for law or medical school or professional school.
In any case, it is something many people have done.
This a 100X, if lets say your sociology friend wants to become an accountant, he will not be able to join a masters program until he has taken the basic and intermediate accounting classes which will proably take 1 or 2 semsters. So I would not write off immediatley a 2nd bachlor as a red flag
If you want to change careers to a technical field, they won't let you jump straight into graduate school.
You need to often do the prereqs which are so numerous, they equate to a 2nd bachelors degree. Engineering and nursing come to mind.
Others do a 2nd bachelors degree to reform their first or make a 2nd slate for law or medical school or professional school.
In any case, it is something many people have done.
Talk about reviving an old thread, but adding my two cents for anyone who finds this, I agree with the above. I had two Bachelor's because the number of prerequisites to enter a Master's program for the technical field I was switching into amounted to getting something just shy of a second undergraduate degree anyhow.
I did a bacholer degree in Respiratory Care Health Science. And now, I am almost done doing my second degree in Entrepenurial Leadership program (BBA). Why I did two Degrees instead of Master in Business Adminsteration is because I'm planning to work in the medical industry. MBA will not give me a wider picture of the sophisticated industry as my BBA. With those two Degrees I will be able to assess most of the small managerial details of a medical company and therefore will give me a competitive edge over other applicawil in this feild.
I've never heard of anyone with two bachelor degrees. If I were a hiring manager, that would be a HUGE red flag.
Why?
Way back when I got my Masters, I had two bachelor's under my belt, the engineering one I needed to get into the Navy and the life sciences one I got after the Navy. The Masters was in CJ. I applied for investigator positions, got an interview from a Secretary's office, a job offer from a Commission. Certainly a working background as a Provost Marshal, 12 years back helped, but having those degrees probably showed them what a detailed memory I had, my willingness to dive into and process massive amounts of information, and the ability to see the problem from different angles.
In a specialist world, coming across a generalist extraordinaire, someone who knows a lot about a lot, can be a great prize.
Finally, I first entered college at a maritime academy where the goal was getting the license, the meal ticket; getting a degree was just a bonus. The degree one often got, however, was something of a general, no nothing of any specialization degree. The story I got there and then again from a prof at Tulane was that after graduation, people were at sea for a handful of years, and then came ashore to get another degree they could really use.
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Talk about reviving an old thread, but adding my two cents for anyone who finds this, I agree with the above. I had two Bachelor's because the number of prerequisites to enter a Master's program for the technical field I was switching into amounted to getting something just shy of a second undergraduate degree anyhow.
Reminds me of my office mate, a student physics major who interned at one of those famous labs, about a year before COVID. By then, I had 3 of my 4 diplomas up on the wall, a BS in Engineering Technology, another one in life sciences, and a masters in CJ (my 2nd masters is still waiting for the cash for its frame)......and he was wondering how, what the heck was I doing in data communications.
A and B. A: Being a generalist in the organization I work in, I can do many jobs, end up being rather indepensible. Further, if my head ever ended up on the block, I probably have a few who can speak up for me. B: It was rather curious that he asked that question because......my Engineering Technology specialization was Telecommunications....it just didn't say that on the diploma.
I suppose that relates to what my profs told me when I was looking at a Forensics Psychology graduate degree. One might have a diploma that says that but what one needs to do is take that degree and sell themselves to an employer with what they can do. Different schools do Forensics Psychology different ways where some are criminal profiling while others are is this person fit for trial and still others are the accident victim: was it an accident or did they commit suicide? Further, for the school available to me, they had a Health Psychology graduate degree where that major could be used for Forensics....but their emphasis was really more helping the guy who got his leg blown off.
There is what your degree says......and how you use it.
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