He adds one caution: Because professional Master's programs remain fairly rare, students must work hard to find them.
It also explains the explosion in professional master's programs.
"Instead," Ms. Mulder said, "we focused on some master's programs".
The board's vote also authorized cultural institutions to create master's programs.
Two-year master's programs are available as well, though some skip the master's degree.
However the case plays out, it raises larger questions about grading in master's programs.
Schools, of course, are businesses, and master's programs lucrative, so keeping customers is essential.
But the final admission decisions for master's programs at the university are still independent.
She was even turned down from three creative writing master's programs.
Northeastern, which has seen a surge in undergraduate applications in recent years, has North Carolina licensing for eight master's programs — business administration, finance, taxation, project management, sports leadership, leadership, education and health informatics — from among its 234 existing master's programs.
In master's programs, women made up 44.1 percent of students in 2004, rising to 50.3 by 2010.
