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What is the Professional Science Masters degree?

 

Professional Science Masters Degree Nationally

"Mastering Science: Graduate Schools Invigorate the MS in Science and Math" by Jesse H. Ausbel and Sheila Tobias, http://www.sciencemasters.com
"During the past five years, a movement to professionalize the master's degree in the sciences and mathematics has taken hold. Some 40 universities have established new degree programs in response to a growing recognition that a master's degree that is not merely a graceful exit from the long road to a Ph.D. does not capture the breadth or variety of exciting and lucrative careers in an economy that rests increasingly on science and mathematics".

The CBS program is one of the programs that received support from the Alfred. P. Sloan Foundation for its development as a professional program. Other funded programs focus on areas such as biotechnology, bioinformatics, applied and industrial physics, industrial mathematics, quantitative computational finance and environmental geosciences.

Common to all programs are curricula that offer:

  • More technical content than the MBA,
  • More business than the science Ph.D. and
  • Typically more use of information technology.

The programs are:

  • Broader
  • More applications driven, and
  • Are designed and refined after consultation with a business/industrial advisory committee.

Please see the Results of a Pilot Survey of Programs, Conducted and Analysed by the Council of Graduate Schools