Continued from Page 1 company’s entry-level positions are in engineering, accounting and marketing. The company produces bar axle wanning de vices for shopping market chains. Tho company hires both peo ple with bachelor's degrees and those with master's degrees in business administration, de pending on tho position. Some times it's preferablo to hire someone with just a bachelor's degreo because "the price tag on an M.B.A. would be high er." Hopwood said. "We’re not a company known with being obsossed with hiring M B.A s, though wo have been known to hire our share of them," ho said. "Somo positions need the exposure of an M.B.A." Julio Stokes, U.S Bank ad ministrative assistant in human resources, said the company places most of their new em ployees in management and commercial loan training pro grams. Experience in banking is just as much on asset as an M B A in business, she said. “You don't need to have one to get a job in the field of bank ing," Stokes said. "But as in any field, if you continue your education, it can open morn doors for you.” Francoise Calin, romance languages department director, said graduate students in the department typically want to become college professors But a bachelor's degree in a foreign language can "definitely" give students not planning on being professors an edge in the job market, she said "My feeling is a B A. in a for eign language helps them get a job anywhere," Calln said. "For teaching It is not enough. Our B A s are not becoming teach ers. They’re going into teaching or going to graduate school or they go to work at travel agen cies.” Students who want to be for eign language teachers at the high school level should get muster's degrees, Calin said Those who want to Ixr universi ty professors should cam doc* toral degrees, she said Just like u romance languages Many students at the UO clearly have graduate programs in mintj, but many of them ate not clear about which program meets their needs.' — Larry Smith. Career Planning and Placement director bachelor's degree, a mathemat ics bachelor's degree draw not prepare students for much of a career in that field without ad ditional schooling, said Frank Anderson, head of the mathe matics department But he said many students get some techni cal training and bachelor's de grees In math, and then go on to work In aerospace engineer ing or electronics. "With a bachelor's degree in mathematics, a student is really not prepared to go get a job as a mathematician.'' Anderson said. "Students with a master’s degree are more directly em ployable as mathematicians, and if you're serious about mathematics, you should get a I'h D." Anderson also said, however, that students with bachelor's degrees in math i an teach at the high school level In journalism, more and morn prospective Journalist* am getting advanced degrees in fields like business and medi cine so they can work at spe cialized publications, said Ar nold Ismach. the University School of Journalism dean "If you’re talking about liemg a professional or a practitioner, it doesn't serve you to have iK)th a Uichelor's and a master's degree in journalism." fie said. But "there's no guarantee and no rule that a graduate de gree is going to help." he said. About 50 years ago. it was common prat lice for newspa pers to hiro students with no college degree at all. Ismach said Most students who earn a bachelor's degree in biology go on to take some kind of gradu ate training or schooling, said Charlene Lari son. undergradu ate biology adviser But those who just earn bach elor's degrees in the field can get jobs us biologists witli the i-'ish and Wildlife Deportment, or as caretakers of a zoo's tx> ianlf.nl garden. Students who want to be bi ology teachers at the university level need doctoral degrees. Larison said Students who want to tench music at a university need doc toral degrees, said Cary Martin. School of Music associate dean But many students do choose to take their bachelor’s degrees and become private music: teachers in the community Grad students should try different settings By Tammy Batey Emorald AaaocuM EdSar Gamut native Chrfelof -Romahn, 25, Mid be came to the United State* to earn doctoral degree to gain tome interna tional flavor. Romahn. who I* etudytng phyalcs at the Unlveraity, Mid he think* H‘a Important to "get out" *nd explore the world. He I* doing thl* In pert by attending graduate cchool here. “I came here to get to know another culture and to get an other perspective," be Mid. Not all atudents have the money to travel oversea* for grad uate school as Romahn did However, meet people In aca demia agree student* can pin a much broader perspective of their field and of the world by attending a graduate school at least In a different stale from where they earned their bache lor** degree. Universities often have different theoretical views on a dis cipline so students can pin a more thorough knowledge of the field if they attend two different schools, mid Larry Smith. Career Pfenning and Service director. Graduate achool ia for job preparation, not for enlighten ment. at the first four years of college are. Smith told. Stu dents should attend a graduate school because that school's academic department can offer them the most, he said. But there are exceptions to every rule, Smith said. "If you know you’ll work on the West Coast but you want to see the East Coast, go to school on the West Coast,” he said. “It may be the only time you get out there." Raquel Karls. 22. earned a bachelor’s degree In business at the University and is now working toward a master's in In dustrial relations at the school. Karls said she decided to stay at tho University because tt has one of the best industrial relations programs In the North west. "All of the signals said to stick with it," she said. The recommendation that students attend a graduate school different from tho school where they received a bache lor's degree is "fairly universal,” said Frank Anderson, head of the mathematics department. It’s recommended even If the university where a student received a bachelor's degree Is a cracker jack Institution." he said. Pew students get all three dogreos — their tmcholor's, mas ter's and doctoral degrees — at the University's School of Music, said Gary Martin, School of Music associate dean and director of tho graduate program. Students should experience different schools "It gives a professional breadth to the doctorate,’* Martin said, "it shows the student has the ability to succeed at dif ferent schools. "They should attend the same school If It's a very good school, but they’ll have a narrower breadth so you give up one advantage for another,” he said "It’s a trade-off.” Gita Joshua earned a bachelor’s degree in chemistry at Women’s Christian College in Madras, India, and a master's degree in French at Miami University at Oxford. Ohio. 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