Master's student
| Highest | $5,750 / mo · Switzerland |
|---|---|
| Experience | 2–4 yrs |
| Degree | Required |
| First paycheck | No salary attached to this status; duration is 1 to 2 years |
Pay in the destination countries
Monthly, in US dollars. Each country is an Imora admission package — open one for that route's fees, language requirement and deadline.
| Country | Monthly |
|---|---|
| SwitzerlandIELTS 6.5 · CHF 0.9–8k | $5,750max |
| NorwayIELTS 6.0–6.5 · NOK 130–260k | $5,050 |
| United StatesTOEFL 80–100 · $10–70k | $5,000 |
| DenmarkIELTS 6.5 · DKK 45–135k | $4,600 |
| GermanyIELTS 6.5 · €0–3k | $4,400 |
| FinlandIELTS 6.0–6.5 · €6–18k | $4,400 |
What does the day look like?
Your day consists of coursework and supervised project work rather than independent research. A standard master's programme runs 2 years in continental Europe and South Korea, and 1 year for a taught master's in the United Kingdom. Typical weeks combine lectures, seminars, laboratory or fieldwork methods classes, assignment deadlines, and a dissertation or thesis project with a supervisor. Daily tools include virtual learning environments like Moodle or Canvas, Python, MATLAB, or R for quantitative fields, SPSS or Stata for social sciences, NVivo for qualitative research, and laboratory equipment such as spectrometers, PCR rigs, or GIS workstations.
The part people often imagine, original discovery in a lab or archive, represents a minority of contact time. Most of the week involves reading literature, problem sets, methods training, referencing, ethics clearance forms, and drafting revisions. There are no shifts, on-call schedules, or night duties inherent to the status; evening or weekend work is self-imposed around deadlines, and paid assistant hours, where held, follow departmental rotas.
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