What characteristics should be considered when evaluating a good Master's program?
There are online programs, group thesis, programs with more economic objectives and prestige, rather than a deep formation.
What are the key points to evaluate and/or choose a Master's program?
University, Professors, Publications, Scientific, etc.
Dear Mr. Galllegos-Berrios!
You spotted a very relevant topic to discuss. I define a Master's degree as a (post) graduate program. May I argue the answer is a case (field of science, requirements of cultural educational policies, and other stakeholders) and context (country, region, IT- infrastructure in place)-dependent problem to consider.
I found some resources:
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2021, Open access: Article Quality assessment of postgraduate safety education programs...
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Yours sincerely, Bulcsu Szekely
Since the implementation of the Bologna Process in the EU, the quality of study programs and universities has been assessed by independent accreditation institutions, some of which are under private law. For program and system accreditation see, for example, the procedure of the German Accreditation Council:
https://www.akkreditierungsrat.de/index.php/en/accreditation-system/accreditation-system
Thank you for having raised the critical which will help to think indepth of choosing the right Master Program that will puts forth the individuals intelligent 🧠, income, individualism, and improvement etc.
The one who is going to select the his or her Master either online or offline and it doesn't matter of acquiring the knowledge from the Professors, Publications, open scientific forum etc but it has to enlighten the knowi and subsequently income for survival.
The students have to analyse the subjects have a market value, social value and futures about the subject that have to be considered before choosing the Master Program.
On these days, the students are interested to study 2 or 3 Master Programs to get familiarized in different fields.
It doesn't mean that if some one has many Maters Program with none income, productive and potential in their fields
Everyone wants to be popular in the future to elevate himself or herself to be an outstanding personalities in the future.
He or she has to be glittered in the future. The new life will have to start by choosing the Master Program.
What could be the impact of choosing the Master Program?
It will be a great debate for this question because there is no single answer but it needs to be considered for many things.
I appreciate your comments, clearly, there is no single answer and the choice of programs depends very much on the type of path that each one wants to develop.
It is also important to standardize some processes and review the accreditation processes, the risk of not doing so could generate that the economic interest is above the formative and put at risk the quality and integrity of the research.