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Description
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The Science Master's is a
professional M.S. degree in science or mathematics for
students interested in a wider variety of career options
than provided by means of currently available graduate
programs in the sciences and mathematics. The goal of the
program is to explore and bring into being a new type of
professional Master's degree in the sciences that equips
people for work outside academia, and to spur a significant
national movement in this direction.
Open to bachelor's degree
holders in the sciences, mathematics, or engineering, the
new self-contained professional M.S. degree programs are
designed to provide a professional platform for work in new
and emerging fields; consulting (tech transfer); commerce
(banking, insurance, and brokerage houses); patent and
regulatory affairs; research management; and production,
marketing, and capitalization of new science-based
products.
The Alfred P. Sloan
Foundation has helped launch new M.S. degree programs at
five universities having strong graduate programs in the
sciences and mathematics. The Sloan programs comprise two
years of post-graduate in-residence training in an emerging
or interdisciplinary area, involving in most cases
internships and some "cross-training" in basics for business
and communications.
http://www.sciencemasters.com/
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