Whiting school to extend master's tuition grants
"Basically what we're saying is that if you graduated from Hopkins, you clear the merit bar - we know you, we know who you are and we know the sort of education you've had from Hopkins as an undergraduate, so you're automatically over the bar."
Jones noted the similarity between the master's grants and the Baltimore Scholars Program at the undergraduate level, a program that guarantees 100 percent of undergraduate tuition to students who are admitted to Hopkins from a Baltimore public high school.
While some students choose to pursue graduate school to wait out a tough job market, there are other advantages to pursuing an advanced degree, according to Jones.
"I would say that increasingly with the complexity of engineering jobs, master's degrees are well-sought after," he said.
"We think there is a large and a healthy demand out there for master's students, and I anticipate with time that demand will continue to increase."
According to Scheinerman, plans to offer the grants have been ongoing.
"Several months ago we began the process of ensuring that these master's tuition fellowships would be available for all [Hopkins] concurrent bachelor's/master's students and for all [Hopkins] alumni returning for a master's degree," he wrote in an e-mail to the News-Letter.
In cases of five year combined programs, the tuition grant would only be given during the master's component of the program.
Scheinerman also noted that providing the grants would not only benefit students but also the University itself.
"First, we think extremely highly of our own students and would like to encourage them to stay for a fifth year to get a master's degree. The result of this will be even stronger graduates of Hopkins and that adds to our excellent reputation," he wrote.
"Second, we believe that this grant program will make Hopkins more attractive to prospective undergraduate students."
The engineering students spoken to for this article agreed that the program was an incentive for attending graduate school.
Jones noted the similarity between the master's grants and the Baltimore Scholars Program at the undergraduate level, a program that guarantees 100 percent of undergraduate tuition to students who are admitted to Hopkins from a Baltimore public high school.
While some students choose to pursue graduate school to wait out a tough job market, there are other advantages to pursuing an advanced degree, according to Jones.
"I would say that increasingly with the complexity of engineering jobs, master's degrees are well-sought after," he said.
"We think there is a large and a healthy demand out there for master's students, and I anticipate with time that demand will continue to increase."
According to Scheinerman, plans to offer the grants have been ongoing.
"Several months ago we began the process of ensuring that these master's tuition fellowships would be available for all [Hopkins] concurrent bachelor's/master's students and for all [Hopkins] alumni returning for a master's degree," he wrote in an e-mail to the News-Letter.
In cases of five year combined programs, the tuition grant would only be given during the master's component of the program.
Scheinerman also noted that providing the grants would not only benefit students but also the University itself.
"First, we think extremely highly of our own students and would like to encourage them to stay for a fifth year to get a master's degree. The result of this will be even stronger graduates of Hopkins and that adds to our excellent reputation," he wrote.
"Second, we believe that this grant program will make Hopkins more attractive to prospective undergraduate students."
The engineering students spoken to for this article agreed that the program was an incentive for attending graduate school.
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