Warks mum wrote:
And don't forget - if you do a BA at Oxford (is it the same at Cambridge?), you can automatically get an MA a few years later without any study...
20 years ago it cost £11, but it might be slightly different now...
It is the same at Cambridge, but I would have thought most employers would know the amount of extra work needed to get MA (Cantab).... Still looks good on a CV though!
My eldest is doing a 4 year M Mech (mechanical engineering) degree, but the decision to change to a 3 year B Mech and do a Masters elsewhere would have needed to be made well before he took the third year, as effectively the 3rd year would be different in structure and in options available. He did toy with the idea at one stage (a Masters in Australia was particularly tempting!) but decided to stay where he already knows and likes the department and obviously has friends on the same course. Possibly this does show lack of "oomph" but as he signed up for the full four years initially I'm sure it could be sold instead as commitment to his original decision....