Best Masters Degree to get or does it even matter?

[yournextFO]

You might have gotten it free but we paid for it.....


A masters degree would invite scrutiny in an interview to see if your ego was inflated....

Maybe if the interviewer was insecure about his (her?) own level of education.

 

[satpak77]

It could be argued "why would you even want to be an airline pilot today anyway"

With that said, additional education never hurt anybody. Do it for yourself, not to check that box. That could be a $50,000 box.

 

[afhercdriver]

The MBA is more versatile.

Jim

 

[pilotyip]

where have you been?

So "Capt. Youdontneedadegree" has a Masters.....

Almost everyone knows that I have a masters. I am not anti college, I have only said it has nothing to do with flying an airplane. Do we want to go there?

 

[seefive]

An MBA will be beneficial to you outside of flying. Does having an MBA make you a better pilot? Of course not. Could having an MBA on your resume help you obtain a pilot job? Of course it could.
Best of luck.

 

[Bullitt]

You might have gotten it free but we paid for it.....


And don't forget you paid for his flight training also.
Nothing is free pal, while you "paid" for this he was out there on watch serving his country putting his A#% on the line for the rest of us, just like the rest of the service members have done and will continue to so. We also paid taxes in the service and pay back in the day didn't hold a candle to what the civilian world made. Sorry for the thread subject change but comments like that spool me up. Thanks for the service YIP.

Don't have a dog in this fight but that was well said!! Thanks for your service.

 

[ACL65PILOT]

DAL loves to see Masters Degree work or a degree.

IMHO a JD, or a MBA in finance.

I am looking at a JD.

 

[andyd]

DAL loves to see Masters Degree work or a degree.

IMHO a JD, or a MBA in finance.

I am looking at a JD.

ROFLMAO.......How are you going to have time for a JD when you are running the MEC? You'd better not abandon us for something better...<jk>...

 

[Rez O. Lewshun]

And don't forget you paid for his flight training also.
Nothing is free pal, while you "paid" for this he was out there on watch serving his country putting his A#% on the line for the rest of us, just like the rest of the service members have done and will continue to so. We also paid taxes in the service and pay back in the day didn't hold a candle to what the civilian world made. Sorry for the thread subject change but comments like that spool me up. Thanks for the service YIP.

Many companies pay for higher education as well.....

 

[lookin4better]

DAL loves to see Masters Degree work or a degree.

IMHO a JD, or a MBA in finance.

I am looking at a JD.

You make a great point. Legacies look for much more than "pilot skills" .... and if a possible window opens and they hire a few hundred.... its going to be ULTRA competetive... in the case of DAL it would probably make someone very competetive... most likely the same at other carriers. Setting oneself away from the heard with more education is a good thing.

And Yip you are totally correct... a person with only a junior high education can fly an airplane just as well as someone with a Masters... I am only making the above comments based on the current and upcoming very competetive environment. Even with retirements in 2012, its going to be a task to get noticed when a carrier hires. Thousands of regional pilots have thousands of hours of PIC time... it will be worth almost nothing. One needs to be a "cut above" in the eyes of the hiring team. And when hiring them, they are getting a possible manager in addition to someone who can fly airplanes.

 

[satpak77]

If I were to do it all over again I would have gone to law school, as my personality (analytical) jives more with law than any other field.

 

[Penguin46]

For plan B, maybe get the masters

Lets say you had a master's degree and were applying to a Major airline for a pilot position, would they even care if you had a masters degree... and if they did, would it matter what it was in?

For example... Masters of Aero Science vs. MBA or non-aviation related

Just curious...

Gracias.

FWIW; Every pilot should have a plan B. Many times plan B becomes plan A; in this field.

 

[NEDude]

You might have gotten it free but we paid for it.....


A masters degree would invite scrutiny in an interview to see if your ego was inflated....

Don't have a dog in this fight either. But even as a "liberal" I'd gladly pay my taxes for the education of our men and women in uniform.

 

[NEDude]

Dual post, sorry.

 

[ACL65PILOT]

ROFLMAO.......How are you going to have time for a JD when you are running the MEC? You'd better not abandon us for something better...<jk>...

I said consider. The would be no way in god's green earth that I could do a JD in three and represent you correctly. I have my priorities.

In the end I will have three years of cash so that I can do the JD, and support the family if I do not have a job.