kylebellows

I'm looking at a range of MES masters programs right now. Judging from the posters here, it looks like lots of people who enrolled in MES programs in the new semester are people who didn't get in to their top-choice PhD programs. Is this a safe assumption to make? For all intents and purposes, I'm looking at the MA as a terminal degree (assuming I get accepted somewhere, insha'allah). Am I in the minority here? Do schools orient their programs as either PhD prep or professional prep? Would this affect the program's competitiveness? Thanks all, good luck.