Master's degrees become increasingly important in university studies. After the so-called bologna process, in the 2000s, with the objective of equating university degrees at European level, important changes began. Important debates and struggles emerged, and on the table very different questions were raised: commodification of the university, devaluation of undergraduate studies, possibilities of methodological innovation, internationalization of studies, etc. The hard criticisms, on the one hand, and those who saw a gap for the transformation that the university needed. Quite a few years after that process, I would say that the critical view was more realistic. That is, critical reading has been more related to what has finally happened. One example: the basis for innovating the methodology was that the groups of students were smaller, little has happened.

Within this process of change we have the emergence of masters and their growing importance. Today, in many cases, master's degrees have become an almost essential complement to university degrees. They are more specialized and expensive university degrees than undergraduate studies, especially in the case of private universities. Many studies are conducted online, so the impact of these types of universities in Hego Euskal Herria is very important. In this sense, as has been emphasized in the Sociology of Education a long time ago, it should not be forgotten that the educational system also reproduces inequalities. This does so ambivalently, as education can also achieve the opposite at the same time; for example, for many students school is one of the few possibilities of social promotion.

In this situation, the language in which masters can be learned is often omitted. Although in recent decades there has been progress in university education in Basque (in some territories of the Basque Country more than in others), the situation is by no means normalised. In the case of masters, however, the situation is much worse and I think it goes unnoticed. We have very few master's degrees in Euskera in the Basque Country, and it is also difficult that, if you only follow the logic of the market, you advance in these master's degrees.

We are therefore faced with a strange situation. On the one hand, students increasingly choose the Basque branch to pursue undergraduate studies, but on the other hand, this path is almost completely cut when they reach graduate studies. These studies, besides being directly related to the world of work, are an essential route for doctoral studies, that is, for research. Therefore, if we consider that the research carried out in Euskera is important, I believe that the possibility of students being able to pursue graduate studies in Euskera should be a priority issue.

Returning to the initial question, if the offers of master's degrees are left under the logic of the market, many students will continue to be expelled from them and the master's degrees in Basque will have enormous survival difficulties. Another logic is also essential to think about graduate studies, and to talk about the language of studies, consider these studies. However, to remember that to continue learning and researching in Basque is still an act contrary to the trends of commodification of the university even more.