Is a Master's in Real Estate worth it?

[Isaac Westlake]

I am 22 years old and a recent college graduate with a finance undergraduate degree.  Throughout college, I increasingly began to have a great passion for real estate investing along with pretty much anything real estate.  While finishing my undergrad, I decided that I wanted to gain more knowledge and open more doors for opportunities involving real estate, so I applied and was accepted into a few different MSRE programs.  For a while, I believed that I am making the correct decision by obtaining a masters in real estate to learn more and have a degree, but lately, I have been second-guessing myself and I am unsure if the MSRE degree is worth spending 30,000 towards tuition when I could instead get my feet wet with getting my first deal.  In the long run, I want to be a real estate investor and potentially get into syndications, and eventually maybe even have my own property management company. I guess my question is, is it worth spending the money on a master's in real estate, or am I better off trying to find a job and mentor and learn from the experience?  I am having a really tough time deciding what path to take and am looking for other points of view.