My perspective is that the choice is in what you want to do rest of your life. If you are very interested in research then Phd is the way to go. Yes, a fraction end up doing similar work to what they would do after a Masters but majority get into academia or research labs and continue doing research. Hence, it is not a disqualification. The kind of jobs you are looking at after a Phd is different from those that you look at after a masters. I worked for a year before I joined my Phd program and my main reasoning was that I always wanted to get involved in research.
I would also like to disagree with one of the comments that said Phd is getting into doing things with more of a theory bent without real-world applications. Although that is true to an extent, I think fields like computer engineering, CS and EE have a lot more direct applicability of research than others. I could quote numerous examples where theses have directly effected current ways of working.
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KAR.
My perspective is that the choice is in what you want to do rest of your life. If you are very interested in research then Phd is the way to go. Yes, a fraction end up doing similar work to what they would do after a Masters but majority get into academia or research labs and continue doing research. Hence, it is not a disqualification. The kind of jobs you are looking at after a Phd is different from those that you look at after a masters.
I worked for a year before I joined my Phd program and my main reasoning was that I always wanted to get involved in research.
I would also like to disagree with one of the comments that said Phd is getting into doing things with more of a theory bent without real-world applications. Although that is true to an extent, I think fields like computer engineering, CS and EE have a lot more direct applicability of research than others. I could quote numerous examples where theses have directly effected current ways of working.
KAR.