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Originally Posted by
makker 
Can you study anything for a bachelor and do something completely different for masters?
If you study business administration as undergraduate, can you do your masters in finance or economics for instance or is your master a MBA?
I don't know if I'd say you can study
anything, but there is a fair amount of leeway, particularly in graduate programs that award professional degrees. On the other hand, research-focused programs tend to attract people who study similar subjects throughout their schooling. For example, in my MPA program we had people who'd studied everything from english to political science to business in their bachelor's degree. However, before I switched to the MPA program, I spent a year in a research-based MA in political science, and I found the undergraduate backgrounds to be much less diverse. Everyone had studied something along the lines of political science, government, history, etc.