Is anyone actually self funding? Is it worth it?

There's an MA I badly want to do but I don't havea chance at getting funding. I just wondered how mant people usually self fund for masters or PhD? My boyfriend is a fully funded PhD student and he said he knows hardly anyone who has self funded their PhD without at least a fee waiver. He said he knewa few at MA level though.

Anyone here doing it? Do you thinm it will be worth it?

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There's an MA I badly want to do but I don't havea chance at getting funding. I just wondered how mant people usually self fund for masters or PhD? My boyfriend is a fully funded PhD student and he said he knows hardly anyone who has self funded their PhD without at least a fee waiver. He said he knewa few at MA level though.

Anyone here doing it? Do you thinm it will be worth it?

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There's an MA I badly want to do but I don't havea chance at getting funding. I just wondered how mant people usually self fund for masters or PhD? My boyfriend is a fully funded PhD student and he said he knows hardly anyone who has self funded their PhD without at least a fee waiver. He said he knewa few at MA level though.

Anyone here doing it? Do you thinm it will be worth it?

I'd never self-fund a PhD; that said, I've saved up enough to self-fund a Master's during undergrad just in case (internships!)

Still waiting to hear back from PhD applications, I should get two replies either way by Tuesday or so, but I've got a half-funded MSc that I can cover the rest of with savings. Initially, that was my whole plan but then I started getting invites for PhD interviews?

Plenty of people self-fund their masters degrees. No-one can answer for you if it's worth it or not though - you say you badly want to do it, you presumably have the funds available so it has to be your decision as to whether you think the funds would be better spent elsewhere or not... And whether or not you will look back at doing it/ not doing it in 5 or 10 years and think of which decision you might regret more.

(I'm assuming from the way you phrased the question that this is not a "is it worth it to help me get a job" question btw, but more something you are genuinely interested in doing, which makes the answer a particularly subjective one. If that's a mistaken assumption then it will probably help if you mention the type of degree and what you want to do afterwards.)

I'm self-funding my masters, and so are most other students on my course. I think it's worth it because I love my course and it's helped me get the experience I needed to get onto a fully funded PhD.

I don't think it's worth funding your own PhD, because that's 3-4 years of not getting paid while working for someone!

Do you know what you want to do after the masters course, and if the masters will help you do it? Masters courses can be very expensive and being a self-funding student can be very stressful if you're living on very limited money. Think carefully before you spend all that money on a one-year course.

That's great news. I guess that would be a similar plan as myself. I have enough saved to do the MA I want but would be unsure about continuing to PhD level.