>>12353755Yeah. That’s fine. A masters is pretty good for that.
So the thing with a PhD, is that it tends to be for research, so if you want to research in that field, and most are professors or work for the govt. idk, you go for that.
That’s why it’s really difficult, and for any university. For a PhD more often than not you would need to write a book practically or do some reallly really good work.
So much so, that most grad students tend to already have dozens of papers finished. Low hanging fruits. And low hanging fruits doesn’t cut it for a thesis more often than not. You are expected to do research and further the field by an exceptional margin.
Which is why I said that’s stupid. Statistics and Applied math is a waste of PhD and research, and so god awful. And most of them are for applications. Those are job oriented and a PhD in either one is fucking stupid and a waste of time.
But a masters, it’s not close to a PhD, a masters, the dissertation requirements is stupid. If you look at flammable math’s dissertation it’s like a HS research paper. It’s dumb. And even so a lot of PhD students tend to get their masters in the process.
Nonetheless it’s an upgrade from a bachelors and shows, well mastery, it shows you are solid in the subject, but don’t care for research. This is good for jobs and general work in the field. And if you’re into that go for it. But if you’re going for a PhD or should be useful or else you’re wasting your money and your time and a lot of fucking work for some shitty field nobody cares about.
So yeah go for a masters if you really are adamant on applied math and stats, which it seems like you are and you are stuck.
Though, I know people who have switched, for example someone from Lebanon who majored in EE, and switched majors, and he is now a grad student in pure math at some prestigious French uni, and doing very well and should be done soon.
