{"id":171,"date":"2015-08-06T16:31:00","date_gmt":"2015-08-06T16:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.forums.geteducated.com\/forums\/uncategorized\/1757-need-advice-for-next-career-steps\/"},"modified":"2020-02-21T04:56:31","modified_gmt":"2020-02-21T04:56:31","slug":"1757-need-advice-for-next-career-steps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.geteducated.com\/forums\/22-ask-anything-about-online-learning-and-colleges\/1757-need-advice-for-next-career-steps\/","title":{"rendered":"Graduate Certificate vs Master&#8217;s Degree?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hello everyone, I recently graduated with a Bachelor&#8217;s Degree in Multimedia.<\/p>\n<p>I am looking to further my education with either a Masters Degree or Graduate Certificate. I am very interested in improving my Web Development skills and Database skills.<\/p>\n<p>I work in Center City Philadelphia and I have been looking at many different schools. La Salle university looks like it has a good Computer Information Systems masters program, but it is 100% online. Is this a safe bet? Not sure if online degrees are worth it.<\/p>\n<p>I was also looking at Saint Joseph University, which offers a masters in computer science with a web and database track. Lastly, I was looking at getting a graduate certificate at the University of the Arts in Web Design &amp; Web Development.<\/p>\n<p>Does anyone know which career path would be the best bet. I just cant decide if a masters or a certificate it better. I would strongly appreciate the advice! Thanks, Tom<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello everyone, I recently graduated with a Bachelor&#8217;s Degree in Multimedia. I am looking to further my education with either&#8230;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-171","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-22-ask-anything-about-online-learning-and-colleges"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.geteducated.com\/forums\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.geteducated.com\/forums\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.geteducated.com\/forums\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.geteducated.com\/forums\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.geteducated.com\/forums\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.geteducated.com\/forums\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":234,"href":"https:\/\/www.geteducated.com\/forums\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171\/revisions\/234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.geteducated.com\/forums\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.geteducated.com\/forums\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.geteducated.com\/forums\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.geteducated.com\/forums\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}