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What can I get my masters in after a BA with a minor in HR?

I got my BA in 2012 and now I feel stuck a low wage job. I want to go back to school to get my masters but, I have no idea what I can get my masters in so, I can get a decent salary job paying at least 50K min. I live in NYC and there isn't much HR jobs that will hire you without the experience even as an assistant. Very depressing. I am taking my LSAT in December but if I don't get into a Tier 1 law school it will not make any sense to go that route and end up in more debt! I am a hard worker and a fast learner.

I am open to any industries and all ideas. Thank you!

PS: I thought of choosing the medical field but since I have a BA I would need to take pre-req courses to even be considered which takes a lot of time and undergrad money that I do not have. Since all loans are pretty much maxed out.

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  • 8 years ago
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    You are correct about law school. In fact, I'd ask you to check the employment rates for any school you look at, because even Fordham is struggling in this market, and IMO, unless they offered you a ton of funding, not worth the $100K+ in debt. Not in this legal market.

    An MBA would be an option for you. You'd need to take the GMAT and, again, be shooting for a very strong school, such as NYU. If you can get into one of the better schools like NYU, and go full time, and do an internship in HR while you did so, you would be likely to get a job related to HR when you graduated. But this tends to only work for the strongest schools. Lower level schools, such as Baruch (well ranked, yes, but not NYU levels of ranking) can't do that as well - I'd want you to have some HR experience before you went. But NYU...? Different level.

    Another, completely unrelated idea is to try to get a job for an employer that tends to promote from within, and work your way into HR or into another field, such as management. You didn't tell me where you're working or what your salary is, or what job you're doing, so it's hard for me to advise you, but even some employers of "low level" hourly style jobs such as McDonalds, Starbucks, Walmart, Kohls, Macys, have a very strong reputation of promoting people from within, so long as those people tell them they're interested. So for example, if you already have retail/customer service/restaurant experience, you could apply for an assistant manager job at McD's, and you could move up to store manager, then division manager, then to their corporate office, or even buy your own franchises...

    But think through your options. Make sure you're prepping for the LSAT. I like the Powerscore Bibles for that, or the Manhattan guides. The Princeton Review and Kaplan prep materials are ****.

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