Are PhDs in Computer Science good investments?

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If you want to get into product research (for e.g. Quantum Computing and Applications) then yes!

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It realistically won’t increase your earning potential by anything meaningful so monetarily no. However, it may open positions that otherwise wouldn’t be available, so based on opportunity maybe.

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Uhm, I’d argue that it does depending on the roles.

Lots of senior and leadership roles in the machine learning and computer science space require you to have a PhD I’ve noticed. Those roles often pay more…

Depends on what you want to do in the long term and what you care about

Agree with IBM. If you want to do research at a company maybe. But otherwise probably not (or at best it’ll just wash out)

Mostly not, no. Like mentioned above, it's good for research, or if you're American Psycho levels of concerned about your businesscard lol

The pay is not that high – median stipends range from $17,000 to $29,000.16

On the flip side, you get to ask people to call you Dr!!

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