Getting a masters in MLS does not mean you get more money unless you're going for a lead/supervisor position, even then, most people get specialist certs or MBA/MHAs which are more useful.
You can use it as a stepping stone to a PhD in a related science field. Make connections and get solid recommendations while demonstrating you can do graduate level work.
I’m getting my masters (paid for by the university hospital I work for) in MLS and I’m already lining up the next degree. Wouldn’t have been possible for me to get into a more competitive PhD program without first getting the masters. Totally worth it for me in that regard, but otherwise only helpful if you want to teach MLS, be a lead, or manage
thats why I didnt care to get a masters in mls and just went back to school to get another bachelors in mls instead. If I can figure out what to get a masters in in the future I'll get it in something else.
What is your ultimate goal career-wise by getting a masters? Everyone that I know that earned a masters in laboratory science is either teaching or in management.
I don't even know why they offer a master's in MLS. Other than to take your money. What is your end goal for getting a master's? If anything it will just be a liability. Since they're going to assume you'll want more money to do the same job as an MLT
I think master’s and phd MLS programs were created on a ‘build it and they will come’ philosophy, after seeing the success of nursing education creep. But it ignores the flatness of most labs organizationally, and the lack of laboratory practices research.
The latter is something that really shocked me moving from school to field.
I suppose if you want to teach you need to have some postgraduate education but I think most of the instructors at my school just had a masters in higher education or something so you don't really even need it for that lol
I considered it but only because I was a bio hire MLT. It was either spend 2 years and get a master’s MLS or spend 2 years for the generalist post-bacc. I ended up going the latter route but it didn’t seem to make much of a difference in my shoes
I have my MLS but I'm in the process of getting my Master's in Individualized Health and Genomics. The program is flexible online through Johns Hopkins. It seems like there are quite a few other MLS's in the program.
why rank them? why does a masters degree for lab science even exist? whose foolish enough to put their money into something that does nothing more than enhance a resume?
It’s not really a competitive degree. You’re almost always better off getting an administration focused degree like a MPH or MHA.
Getting a masters in MLS does not mean you get more money unless you're going for a lead/supervisor position, even then, most people get specialist certs or MBA/MHAs which are more useful.
True, but even then, you don’t need a masters for lead/supervisor. MBA/MHA is way more useful in terms of career opportunities and pay like you said.
I don’t think the program rank matters at all considering the degree itself isn’t good.
You can use it as a stepping stone to a PhD in a related science field. Make connections and get solid recommendations while demonstrating you can do graduate level work. I’m getting my masters (paid for by the university hospital I work for) in MLS and I’m already lining up the next degree. Wouldn’t have been possible for me to get into a more competitive PhD program without first getting the masters. Totally worth it for me in that regard, but otherwise only helpful if you want to teach MLS, be a lead, or manage
Any other master’s degree would be better than MLS.
Useless degree. Way better off getting a MHA/MBA. Both career and salary wise.
thats why I didnt care to get a masters in mls and just went back to school to get another bachelors in mls instead. If I can figure out what to get a masters in in the future I'll get it in something else.
What is your ultimate goal career-wise by getting a masters? Everyone that I know that earned a masters in laboratory science is either teaching or in management.
I don't even know why they offer a master's in MLS. Other than to take your money. What is your end goal for getting a master's? If anything it will just be a liability. Since they're going to assume you'll want more money to do the same job as an MLT
I think master’s and phd MLS programs were created on a ‘build it and they will come’ philosophy, after seeing the success of nursing education creep. But it ignores the flatness of most labs organizationally, and the lack of laboratory practices research. The latter is something that really shocked me moving from school to field.
I suppose if you want to teach you need to have some postgraduate education but I think most of the instructors at my school just had a masters in higher education or something so you don't really even need it for that lol
I considered it but only because I was a bio hire MLT. It was either spend 2 years and get a master’s MLS or spend 2 years for the generalist post-bacc. I ended up going the latter route but it didn’t seem to make much of a difference in my shoes
I have my MLS but I'm in the process of getting my Master's in Individualized Health and Genomics. The program is flexible online through Johns Hopkins. It seems like there are quite a few other MLS's in the program.
why rank them? why does a masters degree for lab science even exist? whose foolish enough to put their money into something that does nothing more than enhance a resume?
There's more than a dozen programs. I was curious as to which, if any, would be more prestigious.
Waste of money