Master’s Degree (MA/MS): usually take one to two years to complete. Master’s programs typically require completion of 30 to 60 credits beyond the Bachelor’s degree, and may or may not require a thesis. Some Master’s degrees are designed to lead to a doctoral degree, while others, like an MBA, MSW, JD and MD, are professional degrees that qualify students for professions in specialized positions within the business world, social work, law and medicine.
Careers Requiring Master’s Degree
- Accountants and auditors
- Administrative services managers
- Adult literacy, remedial education, and GED teachers and instructors
- Advertising and promotions managers
- Advertising sales agents
- Broadcast news analysts
- Budget analysts
- Chief executives
- Chief Sustainability Officers
- Child, family, and school social workers
- Civil engineers
- Clergy
- Clinical, counseling, and school psychologists
- Compensation, benefits, and job analysis specialists
- Computer and information systems managers
- Computer programmers
- Computer software engineers, applications
- Computer software engineers, systems software
- Computer systems analysts
- Construction managers
- Copy Writers
- Database administrators
- Detectives and criminal investigators
- Dietitians and Nutritionists
- Editors
- Education administrators
- Education teachers, postsecondary
- Educational, vocational, and school counselors
- Electrical and electronic engineering technicians
- Electrical engineers
- Engineering managers
- English language and literature teachers, postsecondary
- Financial analysts
- Financial managers
- Food service managers
- Gaming surveillance officers and gaming investigators
- General and operations managers
- Health educators
- Human Resources Managers
- Industrial-organizational psychologists
- Law teachers, postsecondary
- Loan officers
- Lodging managers
- Management analysts
- Marketing managers
- Marriage and family therapists
- Medical and health services managers
- Medical and public health social workers
- Mental health counselors
- Natural sciences managers
- Network and computer systems administrators
- Network systems and data communications analysts
- Personal financial advisors
- Police and sheriff's patrol officers
- Private detectives and investigators
- Probation officers and correctional treatment specialists
- Public relations specialists
- Registered Nurses
- Reporters and correspondents
- Sales engineers
- Sales managers
- Securities, commodities, and financial services sales agents
- Security guards
- Special education teachers, preschool, kindergarten, and elementary school
- Substance abuse and behavioral disorder counselors
- Sustainability Specialists
- Tax examiners, collectors, and revenue agents
- Training and development managers
- Vocational education teachers, postsecondary