R.A.E. Wells Reported On The Pros and Cons of Master’s Degrees For Nonprofit Workers

For Vital City, R.A.E. Wells wrote about whether nonprofit professionals should get graduate degrees. For the report, Wells interviewed students and university administrators to assess if MPA programs are a good option. The article is centered on how students often go into debt to pursue higher education. Wells explores if graduate schools are being as transparent as they should about the potential sacrifice students will have to make. The article finds that due to this debt, students often end up in the private sector after graduation. 

Wells writes, “Taking on debt to pay for an MPA — or, for that matter, for any graduate degree — can be a life-altering decision.”