<p>I've heard some rumors that it was considered too theoretical by some big companies who preferred the business background.</p>
<p>You could contact Stanford's career services and ask them, but I know that Stanford grads have no problem getting into ibanking, etc.</p>
<p>Right, although, I've now heard that perhaps it might not be such a great idea to coterm and instead to simply jump straight to a PhD program-questions, comments, thoughts?</p>
<p>@mercruz:</p>
<p>Thoughts: If you want MS and PhD in different fields, maybe it's not bad to do the coterm and then do the PhD [thinking PhD in Math / MS in CS].
On the other hand if your BS curriculum uses enough graduate courses I am far from convinced that BS/MS/PhD in the same field is reasonable. Disclaimer: No Experience. Just thoughts.</p>
<p>It depends on what your professional plans and aspirations are. And that very well may change by the time you have to make this decision. If you want to stay in academia, you'll need a PhD. If not, you most probably won't.</p>
<p>hmm, interesting. I do plan on staying in academia-as of now at least-so perhaps I should go the PhD route...thanks everybody!</p>
<p>bump for DerailleurGears</p>
<p>have fun</p>