‘Intellectual challenge’: master’s students find reasons to be satisfied with their degree programmes

Graduate scholars are eager to launch their careers, eschewing the years of further study required for doctoral degrees.

Chris Woolston

Cartoon of student rolling the degree.
Credit: Illustration by Cathal Duane

Sixty-eight per cent of master’s students who participated in Nature’s latest graduate-student survey say that they are satisfied with their current programmes, a level of contentment that puts them ahead of PhD-student colleagues (60%). And 79% say that they are also satisfied with their decision to pursue a graduate degree, compared with 74% for PhD students.

Read more here: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-03758-6

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