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Re:A physics master’s degree opens doors to myriad careers by m463 on Friday April 19, 2019 @12:19AM (#19697071)
I kind of suspect there's a possible bias from the advisor.

It could be on behalf of their employer - they have a shortage of a certain class of student at the university.

or it could like engineers who too easily recommend extremely over-powered computers for friends and family not in the industry who are thinking about buying a computer.

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Re:A physics master’s degree opens doors to myriad careers by analog31 on Friday April 19, 2019 @08:13AM (#19698878)
It was pretty widespread. PhD students generally outnumbered MS students, fairly substantially. I went to a second tier program, and there were zero MS students. It wasn't a thing.

My own college didn't have a graduate program. This was based on multiple advisors having similar expectations about applying for grad school.

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