Policy for American master’s degree graduates to stay in the United States,

In China, after graduating from a bachelor's degree, you can't find an ideal job, so you go to study for a master's degree to increase your competitiveness; who would have thought that after graduating from a master's degree, you still can't find an ideal job, and then you go to study for a Ph.D. However, one thing we must understand is that this rule does not apply in the United States. In the United States, overall employment opportunities for graduate students are not as good as those for undergraduates. In the United States, most students choose to work after graduating from undergraduate degrees. Moreover, American culture is not like China, which blindly worships academic qualifications. It pays more attention to personal abilities. As long as you can show your value, then you can be hired. The most important reason why employment with a master's degree or a doctorate is not as good as with a bachelor's degree is that most jobs do not require highly technical personnel, and only a bachelor's degree is enough to do the job.

Secondly, the U.S. education system determines to some extent the phenomenon that "graduate students are not as employable as undergraduates." Overall, the education system in the United States is very different from ours. In most schools in China, master's degree students are the only path to a doctoral degree. It can be said that it is a step-by-step process that cannot be crossed. In the United States, an undergraduate can directly study for a Ph.D. Many times our domestic students call this direct education. But in the process of directly studying for a doctoral degree, I will take some classes with many master's students. But there is a big difference in nature. Generally speaking, the position of master's degree teaching in the United States is to cultivate high-level technical talents; while the position of doctoral students is to cultivate creators, that is to say, people who are committed to doing research. . Therefore, so-called direct PhD students miss the opportunity to become technical talents. Even if they enter a corporate job in the future, most of what they can do will be research rather than technical.

For example, an undergraduate student studying at school A and another graduate student studying at school B go to school C for a PhD at the same time. In theory, the graduation time is the same, but the future employment prospects will be the same. They are different. After understanding this, I hope it will be enlightening for students who are struggling to decide whether to apply for a PhD or a master's degree. From such different positioning educational purposes, we can see some clues about graduate school employment. Senior technical talents (emphasis on senior ones) account for a relatively low proportion of employees in most companies, so there are not many opportunities when applying for corresponding positions. For PhDs doing research, there are even fewer positions. So we have found the reason why it has been rumored that PhDs cannot find jobs, because there are too few positions that really require PhDs to apply for.