Using your MALS Degree

After graduating from the Master’s Program, students use their degrees to enter Ph.D. programs and professional schools, advance their current careers and start new ones. No matter what they ultimately do with their degrees, however, students rarely come to the MALS Program solely to obtain a required credential. Typically, they come to Skidmore to get the degree they need by studying the things they love. For example, students who come to Skidmore are not looking for the easiest way to collect credits. Some are investigating the nature of creativity, others are researching the roles played by frontier women in 19th century politics or exploring the ways in which different cultures’ relationship to death reveal their understandings of life.