Educators tackle problems of M.S. degree
Worthy, W.
Chemical-Engineering News Archive 57(46): 33-34
1979
ISSN/ISBN: 0009-2347 Document Number: 244436
Suppose you're the head of the chemistry department at a middlesized university. Although it doesn't offer the Ph. D. degree, it's a good, respectable department, and it turns out a modest number of M. S. degrees every year. But is your M. S. program really worth the bother? Can you compete with that huge Ph. D.-granting state university a few miles up the road? If you can, what programs should you offer? How can you attract qualified graduate students? Where do you find the money to support their research?Such questions were among the ones debated at a recent regional conference on the future of M. S. degree programs in chemistry at nondoctoral institutions. The meeting was organized by Ronald W. Collins, head of the chemistry department at Eastern Michigan University, and held at the Emu campus at Ypsilanti. Some 30 participants, most of them representing colleges and universities in Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, and.
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