Does a Master's degree trump what you earned as a Bachelors? Do you lose credibility in either subject?

I have a BS in Criminal Justice and will receive a Master's in Management.|||A master's doesn't precisely trump what you did for your bachelors. Ideally, it compliments it. In your case, you'd be ideally qualified for a management job in the CJ field.





But you can also use a masters as an opportunity to change fields, especially if you did coursework focusing in another area, and/or did an internship in the other field. If you can use your resume to show all that, and cast your varied experiences in terms that the new field understands and desires, then a masters can help you make a career change.





For example, undergrad CJ, work experience CJ, masters in management, desire to go into marketing. So you'd recast your resume to highlight the marketing classes you took, the marketing experiences you have - even as part of your CJ job history - and any special marketing projects you did while getting your masters. In this way, you're making your resume appealing to marketing employers, and may be able to make that career change.|||You don't lose credibility, but ideally your master's should expand at least partially on what you learned in your bachelor's.