Re:Ask HN: Makes sense to do Masters in Computer Science aft...
by CyberFonic on Wednesday March 20, 2019 @03:59AM
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With considerable real-world-experience there are opportunities to be an adjunct lecturer in your area of expertise whilst studying in
a new area. In my experience you learn so much more about what you thought you already knew well by teaching it.
Also if there are particular courses you want to take it's worth contacting professors who have done that course in the past and make sure they don't have a sabbatical/retirement coming up. While this may not guarantee anything I have seen people disappointed by ending up in that situation where the particular lab ended up working on a major project and the number of courses available for master's students was less.
You need to have a plan for what you want out of your Master's and then choose to do it in my opinion, just assuming a Master's is going to take you to the next level betrays the fact that a Master's degree is usually a first tier true postgrad specialization, where a doctorate would be a second tier, and postdoc/principal researcher/etc would be what I consider a third tier of specialization. You have to do the due diligence to understand what you are signing up for.