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So, I've got my BA in Psychology and was thinking I would like to further my education. What are some of the degrees and specific fields I should look into? I'm open to other fields, but I'm mainly interested in criminal justice, sociology, and psychology.
So, I've got my BA in Psychology and was thinking I would like to further my education. What are some of the degrees and specific fields I should look into? I'm open to other fields, but I'm mainly interested in criminal justice, sociology, and psychology.
I have a Master's degree in psychology( applied)-what do you want to do? Depends on this...you can get a MSW and do therapy or go into social work-you can get a Master's degree in counseling-my advice get a PsyD or a PHD-you will make next to nothing without it...trust me on this....I worked with a criminal/forensic psychologist treating sex offenders...
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Very little chance of anything other than maybe underpaid overworked social worker jobs with a BA in Psych. In order to make it a career even a Masters is not going to get you far, maybe school psychologist and they seem to be getting laid off lately. You can use your knowledge in business management but will have to work your way up to gain experience, but it can help to get a second degree in business. The way it is now in the economy no additional education is guaranteed to pay you back.
If you want to work in a therapy setting in a rural area, you could work on a masters in that. I know that those jobs are in somewhat high demand. What was your plan when you chose your psych major in the first place?
If you want to work in a therapy setting in a rural area, you could work on a masters in that. I know that those jobs are in somewhat high demand. What was your plan when you chose your psych major in the first place?
Shortest registration lines?
CHeapest books?
The Professor/TA was cute?
Unforutnately many 18-20 Y.O.s are often ill equipt to make career defining choices for rational reasons. We should not assume that they had a plan.
I started out as a Poly Sci major and found in the first class that i hated it. THen I was an english major becuase that was the first class that I got an A in. I liked classics and added classiscs for a dual major but then dropped it because the classes did nto fit my schedule. I became a dual English history major, then dropped english, then dropped history and went back to english. Suddently I discovery I only needed a couple fo classes for a Philosophy major so I was a dual major again.
Somewhere in there I was also majoring in Acting and speech.
I graduated with a major in english and just a few credits short of a bunch of other majors.
Majors and class choices were based on professors that i liked, cute girls whom I knew would take certain classes, fitting my class schedule to my work schedule and social schedule, favored professors, favorite buildings to take classes in all kinds of crazy things.
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