Is Grad School Worth It? How To Avoid The Most Common Graduate School Money Mistakes

For Patrice Lee, the lure of graduate school was too much to resist. After getting interested in politics at the undergraduate level, she went on to earn her master's degree in political science from Boston College, with a concentration in international relations and comparative studies of South Africa. Now 33, Lee has over $80,000 in student loan debt and a job where she's not using the expertise she developed in graduate school.