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My experience in my CS MS was that there was ~50% discount on tuition, a subsidized health insurance plan, and not quite enough to live on.

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MS is often a different deal that PhD or MS/PhD.

Indeed, in my field, terminal Masters students are a profit center.

Top tier usesally doesn’t have terminal MS. MS means you didn’t cut it or you want out. In either case they pay you.

I think that's not completely accurate. In physics and math and probably other hard science disciplines, yeah, you are correct, a masters means "thanks but you're not gonna make it to a PhD".

I have a masters in Computer Science from UW-Madison and I had nothing to do with the PhD track. I just wanted more learning and the CS department was happy to provide it. There was no stigma associated with a masters degree there and it's definitely helped me in my career.

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