Post Graduation

Erg_Orgy said:
Well my eldest sister has a degree in Sociology and she's had years of trouble landing a job with it after she got said degree.

That's all I can offer as help anywho.

ashishkaull said:


Thanks . I was told that MA in sociology will decrease my JOB field where as Public administration will increase that . What kind of job was she looking for Public or Private ?

Erg_Orgy said:


Mainly public, she wouldn't even have had a chance with private due to lack of prior experience.She managed to get a public one a couple of months ago, before that she was working as a cashier for months which just shows how desperate she became after looking for a job for years with that degree.

KEIKAN said:
It's difficult for me to sit here on this end of a computer and make a recommendation that will possibly change your life, but if I must, I'd say that Public Administration may be the more useful of the two in procuring a job after graduation.

yogotah said:
I hear getting a decent job with a degree in sociology can be pretty tough, unless you are willing to move across states, which considering the pay may not be that worth it. I don't know much about public administration, but that already looks to have more opportunities in the future. I have a friend who did public policy, and he's doing pretty well, maybe that would share similar benefits.

Pirating_Ninja said:
Don't Master in Sociology unless you want to spend 10+ years as a community college professor until you can just teach sociology 101 at a 4-year university.

Coolspot said:
Why not take some intro classes and pick classes that are similar to those things and make that conclusion after being exposed to some of those areas.



A lot of people hire you just because you have a college degree. Along with some volunteer work and such with a sociology degree you could land a job that makes over 35k a year.

Fenryr19 said:
How could you end up in such a horrible situation where you have only two awful options to choose from?

Coolspot said:
Why not take some intro classes and pick classes that are similar to those things and make that conclusion after being exposed to some of those areas.



A lot of people hire you just because you have a college degree. Along with some volunteer work and such with a sociology degree you could land a job that makes over 35k a year.

Pirating_Ninja said:
For a postgraduate degree, if you aren't making over ~$80,000 then their should really be no need to have gotten a masters / PhD / Doctorate / MD / etc. in the first place.

That annual salary is about the same amount that one year of grad school is . . . It would quite literally take you the greater half of your life to pay off the money spent on grad school if you salary is 35k.

ashishkaull said:


Hold on there both of you . We don't earn that much here .
My Bro is in Industry and he is there on the basis of MBA and he hardly earns 12,000 USD a year = 8,00,000 INR .

Pirating_Ninja said:
Costs are relative, could I also assume that grad school where you live does not cost anywhere between 30,000-40,000 a year?

ashishkaull said:


Depends on the schools , Colleges and Universities .

My MA course will cost me 9000 INR for 2 years = $ 134
My Schools costed less than $ 700 a year ( In state board schools it costed $ 180 a year ) .

Now if I go to top private colleges and Universities , then costs for 4 year course jumps to $ 10,000+ ( $ 2,500+ every year )

ashishkaull said:


Depends on the schools , Colleges and Universities .

My MA course will cost me 9000 INR for 2 years = $ 134
My Schools costed less than $ 700 a year ( In state board schools it costed $ 180 a year ) .

Now if I go to top private colleges and Universities , then costs for 4 year course jumps to $ 10,000+ ( $ 2,500+ every year )

Pirating_Ninja said:
So yeah, in America it costs $30,000 a year at most public universities and $40,000+ at most private universities, and a good salary after exiting is around $70,000-$80,000 although that is highly dependent on where you live. (this is actually the low end, kind of lowballing "good salaries", honestly you should be shooting for around $120,000+ after grad school, for example the average starting salary at the occupation I intend to pursue after grad school is $87,000, and even then I'll be in debt for awhile)

It's hard for me to guess what that would be a decent salary in India, but basically I would say that if you aren't making like 1.5 that of someone who only completed their undergrad, it might not be worth it . . . Then again, universities are overpriced in America, that doesn't seem to be the case in India.

Coolspot said:


So looks like regardless of what you choose you will be making about the same amount of money?