Why millennials are no longer turned on by Master's Degrees

There is something about putting on that gown and cap, walking up to the podium and receiving your postgraduate degree. Adding MSc to your title, calling yourself a fellow, or reminding someone who just called you Mr that it is actually ‘Doctor’. You did not waste your years and your hairline defending papers just for people to call you ‘Mr’
For a long time, taking that extra step beyond a Bachelor’s degree has been viewed as a preserve of the few. Whether simply because those four years often feel like six, and finally finishing is a significant achievement on its own, or because there is more to life than lecture halls, a lot of young people tend to view postgraduate study as a luxury.

The perception of Masters and PhD study as an elite club has certainly had its appeal for some. Brian Okeja, a Master of Science in Human Resource Management student at MMUST, always saw it as a path to the top.
“Education is the shield to poverty, the shield to ignorance, the shield to diseases and the pathway to prosperity,” he says.