Hello,

My lone acceptance this season was into a MA program in economics at Fordham without funding. Should I go? I was crunching the numbers, and its going to cost something like 50-60000 dollars to complete the degree. I have one MA in statistics and it has not paid off. I am still currently paying off the loan through temp work. I want to go back to school A) to avoid the job market, and b) I really want to study economics but I just dont think its worth 60000 dollars. I cant imagine graduating in this lousy economy and being saddled with that great amount of debt.

Maybe if this was an MBA in econ from somewhere like wharton or an MPA from Columbia I might go, but Ive learned that terminal MA programs are not respected in the real world. What does everyone else think?