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Why does a Master's Degree in Film, also known as a Master's Degree in Fine Arts (MFA), take 3 years to complete at some schools like UT Austin?
3 years to complete it?!
Other Master's degree's in things like Software Engineering or in Education have around 30 hours at a lot of universities and yet a Master's Degree in Film is 60 hours?! It's twice as expensive, and takes twice the amount of time to complete. Why?
Certainly a Master's Degree in Film cannot be more complex and complicated than a Master's Degree in Software Engineering. I've been doing filmmaking a long time and this just seems really messed up to me.
It makes absolutely no sense to double the cost and time to complete a master's degree that may end up being a lot less worthwhile than something like a Masters Degree in Software or Education which are usually around 30 graduate hours.
I really don't understand the logic or reasoning for doing this. Can someone explain to me why it takes twice as long and costs twice as much as far as student credit hours at many universities?
3 years to complete it?!
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Other Master's degree's in things like Software Engineering or in Education have around 30 hours at a lot of universities and yet a Master's Degree in Film is 60 hours?! It's twice as expensive, and takes twice the amount of time to complete. Why?
Certainly a Master's Degree in Film cannot be more complex and complicated than a Master's Degree in Software Engineering. I've been doing filmmaking a long time and this just seems really messed up to me.
It makes absolutely no sense to double the cost and time to complete a master's degree that may end up being a lot less worthwhile than something like a Masters Degree in Software or Education which are usually around 30 graduate hours.
I really don't understand the logic or reasoning for doing this. Can someone explain to me why it takes twice as long and costs twice as much as far as student credit hours at many universities?