Education 'level' poll

[Tahuti]

I already did . BA and BS are arbitrary, done differently in different places for different reasons.

Here, which one you get is defined by the college the department is in. So bio is in Letters & Sciences, which awards BAs exclusively. It doesn't matter how competitive and ridiculous the two bio majors are.

Economics is the same, and while I think it's better referred to as an art, a whole lot of schools throw it in the BS category. Many of those schools don't cover nearly the same material—not until their masters programs do they! Meanwhile, business administration has its own college and they all about that hustle so they're gonna make it look as polished as possible, and science it is.

I know Cambridge awards all degrees (including physics and CS) as BA for historical reasons.

 

[Takhisis]

Check the avatar, i am Sebastokrator now

But not the panhyperproto type.

 

[illram]

Haha you rounded up.

I rounded down ;D

I guess a JD is more a professional qualification than an academic qualification? If you can make that sort of distinction meaningfully.

That's how I always looked at it. It is basically useless without a law license. (And sort of a red flag, as many would assume you were unable to pass the bar exam if you worked as a non lawyer with a JD, or that you'd leave for a legal position once you passed or found something better.)

It is also the easiest doctorate that ludicrous amounts of student loan money can buy, probably. I never considered it an academic degree until my wife was looking at University tenure track professor jobs in Social Work the California State system, and to her dismay (and my amusement), her Masters of Social Work (MSW) did not qualify her to teach social work at our alma mater, whereas my JD met the minimum requirements of either a PhD or a JD. This was true for a lot of unrelated professor positions, oddly. For some reason the Cal State system considers them equivalent for minimum academic requirements.

Just more evidence that the system is rigged by lawyers, really. You really should consider getting rid of us.

 

[bhavv]

I know Cambridge awards all degrees (including physics and CS) as BA for historical reasons.

That's lame. I didn't go to a highly rated uni, but the difference there was that BAs just had a 10,000 word dissertation that you could last minute, BSc's had a huge research project of 15,000 words, several presentations across the year, and lab / field work plus scientific method required.

 

[Joecoolyo]

Working on a BA in History and BA in International Relations.

No idea what I'm going to do with it, or if I'm going to Grad school or not.

 

[Quintillus]

I have a Bachelor's in Computer Science, with a minor in history so I could still post on CFC after graduation.

Apparently we're an educated bunch in Off Topic. Which isn't surprising, but the degree to which we're educated is more than I expected (pun intended).

 

[Zkribbler]

I am formally still enrolled to a BSc programme in Computer Science, though I have practically already dropped out as I have landed a job related to my field.

I advise you to get your degree if at all possible. Even though you now have a job, someday in the future, you'll want a promotion, and a degree is always a big step up, and sometimes required.

 

[Zkribbler]

JD, which doesn't really fit comfortably in a category.

Me too. I think we're the equivalent of Masters. There is a higher degree [LLM, LLB?], but such degrees are rarely obtained and are in specialized fields, e.g. taxation.

 

[JollyRoger]

In the U.S. the standard degree was JD, then, by the 1930s, LLB (once the prestigious law schools thought too many lesser schools were using JD), and then back to the JD in the 1960s, led by the less prestigious law schools re-adopting JD. It is considered a professional doctorate (much like the MD) as opposed to a research doctorate like a PhD.

 

[Takhisis]

By 'professional' you mean one of those which enables you to practise a certain profession, right?

 

[JollyRoger]

Not quite as useless as a PhD.

 

[Takhisis]

Depends on what paper they're issued on. Anything printed on soft enough paper can be used as toilet paper.

 

[Kyriakos]

^How did you get your user title to show in Greek letters? I tried some months ago and it did not show for me...



(What a pity/inside joke)

 

[Leifmk]

I've got a degree which is roughly equivalent to a Master's -- after Norway reformed its higher education system to conform with the Bologna Process the current version or successor of the program I followed is actually called a Master degree, but I'm old enough to have the old kind of degree. The actual name of this degree is "svilingeniør" which translates as "civil engineer" but it has no connection with what is understood as civil engineering (except of course for those people who actually went to the "hella big constructions" department). I was in the math department and took a great deal of purely theoretical math alongside some numerical math and computer science classes.

Added to this I have a scattering of credits which I took for fun and/or to have alternate career paths open to me -- a teaching certification, plus enough credits that I could probably or maybe just almost scrape together a BA degree in some kind of history/Latin/classical culture thing.

 

[Takhisis]

^How did you get your user title to show in Greek letters? I tried some months ago and it did not show for me...

I just… typed it in. Thus proving the superiority of Mint over Ubuntu.

(What a pity/inside joke)

It doesn't fit.

 

[Zack]

I just… typed it in. Thus proving the superiority of Mint over Ubuntu.

Why would your operating system matter? Should just depend on your browser.

edit: see, I'm on Windows and it works fine for me

 

[Takhisis]

Do not intervene in the disputes regarding which type of Linux is superior to others, you heathenous Windower.

otoh, kawaiiii Greekness!

 

[hobbsyoyo]

Busy busy busy. You?

Very much the same.

 

[Antilogic]

Okay, you're not just going to post that and not say the reason why.

It's the same reason that patents cover "art" or you do a "prior art" search when you do scientific research. In these cases, art is an (archaic and uncommon?) abbreviation for artifice and not painting, music, etc.

 

[Kyriakos]

I have a Bachelor's in Computer Science, with a minor in history so I could still post on CFC after graduation.

Apparently we're an educated bunch in Off Topic. Which isn't surprising, but the degree to which we're educated is more than I expected (pun intended).

Likely it has to do with the OT crowd mostly being the same people for the last 10 years/ever