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by LouisSayers 489 days ago
It helped me get a visa for Italy (I took part in a startup accelerator program).

Other than that not much else... I mean you learn things, but you could also learn things from watching YouTube, doing courses and reading books!

I've also seen people do PhD's and from the outside it seems like a lot of them did it just for the title - one of my friends though seems to love Academia and is now a professor.