Which is better, dual degree or a bachelors with masters degree?

Philippines
May 18, 2009 7:36pm CST
I was about to go back and finish my college degree in a near school where I work as a regular employee. I had discussed this with my boss and its good to go. I am just wondering because if I can make to have a dual course at the same time in that school or just finish it and continue back to master's in another school. I am about to lead my education where I should have done before but because of financial crisis,I never did finished college. But for now that I have a good work to pay that education. This is just an eye opener question to people out there who might have any opinion regarding this issue, a dual degree or a bachelor with masters degree? happy mylotting!!!
5 responses
@fwangaa (3057)
• China
29 May 09
i think it is better for you to take a masters degree. you can study masters and at the same time to study others. i think you will find a better job if you finished your master degree.
• Philippines
30 May 09
Nice idea. I never thought of that having master's while attending that of other field of interest. I do agree having that masters would eventually qualify to a better job. Thanks for dropping your ideas.
@oyenkai (4394)
• Philippines
21 May 09
A masters degree often benefits people in two main aspects: most often than not, the pay is better compared to people without it; second is that it is often required in teaching positions. A dual degree on the other hand seems to give a little less punch to the hiring department as compared to a masters degree. Unless of course those two degrees are exactly what they're looking for in one person. Most of the time, they hire one person for a specific need and instead of getting someone with a double degree who couldn't handle two tasks at once, they'd rather get two people with masters degree each :D (I hope I was able to deliver that point well). On the other hand, if your second degree will supplement your skills in your first degree then that's always a plus. General rule is more education = better offers. Although that is not always the case and it's pretty tough in the industry right now :P You may want to ask your boss what he needs - someone with more expertise on the same subject or someone with a wider scope of knowledge. Thanks for the response on my discussion!
• Philippines
21 May 09
Great point you have mentioned in there, and yes it is the more education the better offer. I'm thinking of getting masters if that would be just in case. Thanks for the great opinion, happy mylotting!!!
@masata (408)
• Indonesia
19 May 09
Hi there, In my position, I will prefer to go for master degree. Rather than taking another bachelor degree, master degree will certainly be value added. On the other hand, completing master degree may take shorter time.
• Philippines
19 May 09
Good point there, it will be just a shorter time to finis the masters. tnx for commenting.
• United States
19 May 09
I really think that this answer depends on your field. For psychology, you almost have to have a Master's in order to get a job! For a business person, a degree in a business and a degree in a finance might be more helpful than a Master's. For my field - Biochemistry - a Master's degree would be far more helpful than a second bachelor's degree. If you can finish both Bachelor's degrees at the same time, there is no reason not to! But if you have to go longer to get the second Bachelor's degree, you might just skip the effort and go for the Master's. I have seen more and more people who are completing 2 Bachelor's degrees while they are in college. I wonder how long it will be before having a Bachelor's degree isnt worth anything anymore! Just like now, having a high school diploma is hardly worth anything!
• Philippines
19 May 09
Yes seems it depends on the field though. Great comment thank you.
@vsharma (48)
19 May 09
I guess at this point, in the middle of the credit crunch the job market is so bad that nearly all the job sectors are doing bad. So if you have a finance or management degree, masters or bacholar's, your going to have alittle lag before you get int the job market, unless you put your head down and get to job hunting.
• Philippines
19 May 09
I see the point there, finance and management is what needed out there for this time we are in global crisis. thanks for the post.