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Re:Ask HN: Value of a master's degree in CS? by davidrupp on Thursday March 14, 2013 @08:09PM (#5378446)
I got my MS about twenty years after my BS. The primary value I got was a fresh appreciation of the "science" in Computer Science. I went in planning to focus on software engineering and bioinformatics; two very practical offshoots from my professional career. What happened instead was I fell in love with theory -- automata, theory of computation, and graph theory in particular. I don't know if my MS has been particularly influential in causing companies to consider or hire me, but it has certainly deepened my appreciation for what I do professionally, and it also influences the topics I pursue personally.

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