Best and Worst Master's Degrees for Jobs
Best and Worst Master's Degrees for Jobs
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<div><div class="story_main" readability="22"> <div id="storyText" class="storyTextDefault"> <div class="story_text" readability="0"> <!-- This is an example of overriding the defaults 1 url of permalink/page 2 title (escape single quotes) 3 rss location or false 4 id of story for STF and print page 5 STF available 6 show font size --> <p> </p>n</div></div><p> Shane Tysinger had a lifelong interest in medicine, but the Davidson County, N.C., high school science teacher had only dabbled in health care, holding a couple of medical assistant jobs before becoming a teacher. At his school he was the first responder for any type of medical emergency.</p> <p> In 2006, looking for a full-time career in medicine, Tysinger entered the two-year physician assistant master's program at Duke University--the birthplace of the physician assistant program. Good choice. Tysinger graduated in 2008, in the middle of a recession, but says there were jobs everywhere for students in his graduating class. Today he works in an Eden, N.C. clinic that focuses on family medicine. His salary has more than tripled from his days as a teacher. "I found the career I was meant to do," says Tysinger.</p> <p> Look for more people to follow Tysinger back to school for a master's in physician assistant studies. The United States' new health care system will further exacerbate the shortage of doctors and increase the need for physician assistants who provide diagnostic and preventative health care services under the supervision of a doctor. Those job prospects--and the promise of hefty paychecks--put physician assistant degrees at the top of the heap in <span>Forbes</span>' first-ever look at the best master's degrees.</p> <p> Colleges will hand out 1.6 million bachelor's degrees this year, according to the U.S. Census (another 762,000 students are on track for associate degrees). Yet with unemployment sitting at 9.9% and underemployment at 17.1%, many students are considering sitting out the anemic job market and pursuing graduate degrees.</p> <p> With this in mind, <span>Forbes</span> set out to determine which master's degrees would provide the best opportunities, based on salary and employment, over the next decade. We turned to Payscale.com, which lets users compare their salaries with those of other people in similar jobs by culling real-time salary data from its 16.5 million profiles.</p> </div></div><p><em><a href="http://fivefilters.org">Five Filters</a> featured article: <a href="http://medialens.org/alerts/10/100428_the_art_of.php">The Art of Looking Prime Ministerial - The 2010 UK General Election</a>. Available tools: <a href="http://fivefilters.org/pdf-newspaper/">PDF Newspaper</a>, <a href="http://fivefilters.org/content-only/">Full Text RSS</a>, <a href="http://fivefilters.org/term-extraction/">Term Extraction</a>.</em></p>
Best and Worst Master's Degrees for Jobs
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