Elephant in the room.

Masters degrees in the Philippines are treated as terminal degree courses. It is an historical relic from a time when very few could do PhD abroad and there were few PhD programs here. It takes a loonnnnggg time to finish MA degrees here.

My advice to my former students (some of them now my colleagues) is that if they are interested in Masters and eventually, PhD studies, they try everything they can to get a scholarship abroad.

Mas mabilis matapos.

Okay baka maisip naman na sobrang nega ko. I finished MA in UP. Rigor kung rigor. I've published after my MA, several times. Kumbaga, terminal degree level education talaga, so salamat UP

Pero kailangan ko pa mag PhD ulit hehe, di naman kasi bilang sa metrics eh.

I feel that this tweet might be misunderstood. I do not mean to denigrate the MA program here. Rather I want to point out that because it has been treated as a terminal degree, the demand on students are typically far greater than a 2 -year MA imply.