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Enhance Your Professional Career and Earning Power with a Graduate Degree

Buffalo State has a proud tradition of offering graduate programs since 1945. And, as a person who earned his graduate degree from Buffalo State, I am humbled and honored to serve as the Dean of The Graduate School. Since 1991 when I earned my graduate degree, the campus has grown, the number of buildings has increased, and the number of graduate programs we offer has expanded. Currently we offer over 60 distinctive graduate degree and certificate programs.

Two of many questions I hear when folks learn I am Dean of the Graduate School are: Why pursue a graduate degree? What graduate degrees does Buffalo State offer? These respectable relevant questions forced me to do some research and here is a synopsis of what I learned.

Why pursue a graduate degree?

Sean Gallagher, Chief Strategy Officer at Northeastern University, recently noted there is a growing demand for and value of master’s degree-educated professionals in the economy (Forbes April 2017). Increasingly, employers value the problem solving, critical thinking, and technical skills that graduate-level education provides. He went on to say that more than 20% of open positions in the U.S. economy today prefer or require graduate-level education – while only about 11% of the population holds an advanced degree.

Not surprising, economists and other scholars have documented substantial salary premiums, economic opportunities, and benefits for master’s degree study – and these human capital benefits are only increasing. Additional benefits associated with higher levels of education include greater civic engagement, societal well-being, longevity, health, and regional economic prosperity.

What graduate degrees does Buffalo State offer? How to learn more about them!

Buffalo State’s over 60 distinctive graduate programs are designed to provide the applied learning experiences that will enhance your professional knowledge, skills, earning power, and career advancement. Further, the exceptional and supportive faculty at Buffalo State are dedicated to making this possible.

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To learn more about Buffalo State graduate programs you are invited to attend The Graduate School Information Sessions on March 14 and April 18. The March 14 Applied Professional Program Information Session will provide the opportunity to meet faculty and learn about our programs in Adult Education, Applied Economics, Creative Studies, Criminal Justice, Forensic Science, Great Lakes Ecosystem, History, Higher Education & Student Affairs Administration, Industrial Technology, Multidisciplinary Studies, Museum Studies, Professional Applied and Computational Mathematics, Public Administration in Public & Nonprofit Management, and Public Relations. Representatives from the programs will be available as well as staff from student support services. Don’t miss out on this great opportunity to explore your options. Registration is preferred but not necessary to attend.

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Making the MAPSS Decision

This may be one of the most important posts of this little journal, because the decision to attend the MAPSS program was certainly something I struggled with for months. I took the exact amount of time allotted after admission to the program to give my decision, and it was mainly due to one ugly thing: perception of the program by other grad students online. I, like many other MAPSS admitted students, had never heard of or considered the program before being admitted. 

2015 and 2016 Application Cycles

Before getting to the decision process, this is what I went through before I was admitted to MAPSS: I was a reject from 11 programs over the course of 2 application cycles. As I mentioned in my intro post, I graduated from my undergraduate institution in the Fall/Winter semester of 2014, and I had graduated early. While in undergrad, I was sure that I had wanted to pursue graduate school, but I never quite knew in what capacity. I was also interested in the Peace Corps, and even was successful in securing an offer to volunteer in Africa before it was rescinded due to violence in the region. This is all somewhat relevant inasmuch as it expresses how multi-directional I am in general. After graduation, I was eager to work full time in a “real” job (i.e. anything that wasn’t food/retail sector, which had been miserable during my undergrad years) and make money. About three months after I graduated, I found a job in the tech industry, like many other freshly-minted college graduates in San Francisco. The company was and continues to be a large, national on-demand service provider for food and retail goods, and what I found in the industry was violent stratification, not only internally within the company, but in the consumers and providers of the services all over the nation.  I began to see a shift in identity formation, and more than a tenuous correlation between online social media identity and how one treated others in the “real” world. 

While my job was taxing on my soul, it revealed important shifts taking place in the market, and in the area of technology and social media, sparking the academic in me once again and stoking the fires of my anthropological curiosities. I decided to go to graduate school. I studied for the GRE and by all accounts failed the quantitative section and did just above average for the verbal and writing sections (at least, average for top anthropology programs in the U.S.) Having taken the GRE pretty late in the application cycle (November 2015), I didn’t have time to retake it, and so I applied to 7 programs that cycle with my paltry scores. I rounded up my Letters of Recommendation (LORs) from undergrad professors who knew my work well and liked me (which is always a plus!), and I was (naively) confident I would secure admittance to at least one PhD program. I was rejected across the board, and one of my LOR writers graciously offered to edit my State of Purpose (SoP) in a way that she knew would be readable to application committees, which was immensely helpful for me, a person with no contacts in the graduate school world and had no idea what committees were looking for. 

After months of rewriting my statement of purpose and training myself to write in the manner of my proposed projects--by writing articles in my intended field, even if they would never be published--I narrowed down my second cycle of applications to programs that were absolutely, positively, the best fits for my intended project. I found faculty members and did my best to correspond with them prior to applying to secure familiarity and support of my application and project. Despite having chosen the most perfect programs for my intended project (MIT HASTS, UChicago PhD, Cornell PhD, and UMASS Amherst Masters) they still were some of the most prestigious programs in the country/world, and it was not too much of a surprise when I was rejected, yet again. The Chicago rejection was the last to come in, and it was because along with the rejection, there was also the referred admission to the MAPSS program with 50% scholarship. At the time, I was overjoyed; I had secured admission to graduate study (even if it was an MA and not the PhD that I wanted) with scholarship to one of the world’s most prestigious and renowned universities! 

Making the Decision

This joy did not last long after I began googling the program and lost myself in the sea of negativity on Grad Cafe. I felt disappointed, as some readers of this might also have felt, or currently feel. People on Grad Cafe and Reddit said that it was a “cash cow” program that was not very selective and was a sort of “consolation prize” for lesser-than intellects who were good enough to pay to be at UChicago, but not to be one of the exclusive PhD students. I spoke with at least a dozen MAPSS grads and more non-mapss graduate students who had a strong opinion about the program, trying to get to the bottom of the “real” perception of the program among faculty and graduate students both in and outside of the university. MAPSS grads, unsurprisingly, did not have many bad things to say of the program and were extremely appreciative of what it had provided them in the intellectual and practical sense. Faculty members at the University of Chicago did not seem to express any of the vitriol that had been rumored on Grad Cafe. The only consistent reservations I received both from faculty and previous students was cost of attendance. As many will attest, it is not a cheap program to attend, being nearly $60k for the year. The good thing about the program is that it does provide some financial aid to a good portion of its students, and the even better thing about that aid it that it is completely merit based; If you put out the best statement of purpose you possibly can and show your strong intellectual capacities, you will get funding. 

While still not feeling 100% about the perception of the program, my most concrete concern was the cost (despite having 50% tuition scholarship, it would still be $50k to take out in loans additional to the undergraduate loans I had). It didn’t seem prudent to spend $50,000 to attend a program that was dismissed and held in poor regard with serious academic circles. I sought advice from current graduate students at universities all over the country via grad cafe. The “advice” given was frustrating, and maybe it has frustrated you, too.

Many of the current grad students I spoke with strongly advised against ANY graduate program that required you to pay any kind of tuition or living expenses (e.g. programs that didn’t offer living stipends). This essentially rules out any Masters program across the country, as it is not customary to receive fully-funded masters; masters degree are usually attained en route to the PhD once already admitted to a PhD program, especially for cultural anthropology. 

This advice seems logical enough, except one tiny tidbit; if you’re aiming for a top PhD program in the country, you either need an undergraduate degree from an intellectually-rigorous Ivy League (or the rare equivalent thereof) or you need a masters degree. If you aren’t among the majority of college grads who didn’t attend an ivy-league institution, then you need to be wealthy to afford the masters program you need to show that you’re intellectually capable of the graduate workload. The advice becomes frustrating, quickly, because most of us aiming for a PhD in a social science don’t have an ivy-league undergraduate education, nor do we possess the trust funds for a masters, which leaves us to make the decision to pay for a masters, which grad students advise never to do.

The reason the masters becomes so important for the non-ivy-league-college-grad is that the most important aspect of your application is showing these top-program-committees is that you have a strong theoretical foundation in your discipline and can handle the rigor of the PhD at their renowned institution. One of the most important pieces of advice I’ve received on this note from a UChicago faculty member was this: the committee needs to know that you have the necessary training in your field to handle work at the graduate level, and many of these faculty members went to ivy-league institutions themselves and are very familiar and confident with the training they’ve seen at these institutions. I.e. they can vouch for the training, and know that you are prepared, at least based on the name of your school and the GPA you attained. 

If you attained an undergraduate degree from a lesser known, or known but less prestigious university (think state universities), that committee most likely has no idea what kind of training you’ve had, and if you can handle the level of work being done at that program. You’re a risk, no matter how good your statement of purpose might be. This isn’t to say that those with just an undergraduate degree from lesser-known or less prestigious universities can’t or haven’t been admitted to top PhD programs; they surely have, but they have a smorgasbord of field work, conferences, and published works. If you were like me, who had nothing but a cum laude degree from a California State University, then there’s no way for the committee to know what you’re capable of (which is most likely, a lot! you just need your chance to shine!). 

Numbers & Perception of MAPSS

Most of the things I read in regards to MAPSS and MAPH (I have literally found every piece of public information on these programs that is available on the internet) were about their lack of prestige, respect, and competitiveness. After doing some research about the MAPSS program with regard to its numbers, I couldn’t reconcile the results with the low-esteem people held it in. Someone had to be lying, and I seriously doubt it was the division of Social Sciences at one of the most prestigious universities in the world. Of my admitted MAPSS class, over 1,200 applications were read (this includes referred applications like mine, and direct applications) and only 279 students were admitted. That is a 23% admission rate. While not as exclusive as the 2.5% admission rate for PhD applicants into the MIT program I had also applied for, or even UChicago’s >10% admittance rate into the Anthropology PhD program, it’s nothing to scoff at. 23% admittance rate for a masters program is selective. 

Someone like me (with a slightly above average GPA from a run-of-the-mill state school and no published work) has no shot at earning a funded PhD from a top program. If you’re like me and trying to pursue a social science PhD, you need to be getting that PhD from a top university. It’s no secret that the social sciences are not a lucrative field. If you want any chance at entering academia or even using your graduate degree to your advantage in the nonprofit or private sectors, you must have a degree from a top-program in your field.  

The advice of people on places like Grad Cafe can be incredibly isolating, because it feels like what it boils down to is money and experience in your field. People will tell you that you either must be brilliant and gain entry into a PhD program straightaway (bypassing the need to attend a separate school for a masters degree), or you must be independently wealthy (or have access to a great trust fund) to pursue a graduate degree. While the advice has the best intentions in mind--e.g. avoiding future financial ruin--only you can know yourself, and what you’re capable of. For me, I decided MAPSS would be worth it because I value education more than anything else in my life- this is a fundamental part of me, and will never change. Higher education, and becoming thoroughly trained in a field I am passionate about is a life-fulfilling goal for me. Many people have told me that one of the biggest reasons NOT to go to graduate school is what I’ve just mentioned: that you shouldn’t go merely because you’re passionate about it. I think this is largely true- I would never suggest someone devote tens of thousands of dollars to pursue any passion, be it basket-weaving or the fine arts. My passion-while perhaps not immediately clear that it will be lucrative- is more than just something I love, it’s something that informs my entire being and worldview. 

As it so happens, MAPSS has a lot of data to back it up in terms of job placement in the nonprofit and private sectors, as well as securing funded PhDs for those still pursuing that route. 

My advice boils down to this: trust yourself. 

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Graduate programs at the Weissman School of Arts and Sciences at Baruch College

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Graduate programs at the Weissman School of Arts and Sciences at Baruch College