What is your Education Level?

[mayor]

I don't get the fascinations with everything being a BA or BS. Not really descriptive.

Well, here in The Netherlands there is a difference in having a Bachelor or having a BA/BS.

You receive a Bachelor after a study at an University of Applied Sciences (Hoger Beroeps Onderwijs (higer proffesional education))
A BA/BS is received after a study at an University (Wetenshappelijk onderwijs (Scientific education))

if interested I can supply with a full explanation of the Dutch educational system since it is quite different from the American system for instance. But I'm not able to di this at his moment.. I'll have to get back to that, when someone wants to know.

 

[Pangur Bán]

Master Degree and "pursuing" a Doctorate (if a slow crawl by an injured animal counts as "pursuit").

 

[onedreamer]

Mine doesn't.

which is sad. Or you're just not realizing it (more likely).

 

[luiz]

I have a degree in Industrial Engineering and am halfway through a Masters in Economics. Considering I am still quite young I might get some further degree, but I'm in no rush.

 

[The_J]

Well, here in The Netherlands there is a difference in having a Bachelor or having a BA/BS.

You receive a Bachelor after a study at an University of Applied Sciences (Hoger Beroeps Onderwijs (higer proffesional education))
A BA/BS is received after a study at an University (Wetenshappelijk onderwijs (Scientific education))

There's a bachelor *withoutAnythingFurtherWithoutFieldOrWhatever* in the netherlands and it's different from a Bachelor of Science/Arts?

Different from germany. With the bologna process, they've adjusted the degrees from both universities and universities of applied science to the same level. So you can get a B.sc/B.A. from both.


Submitted my Master thesis today (under reservation; should have ensured to put the right title there ), want to go for doctorate (if i find a position). Let's see how it goes. If not...meh...would be quite sad, because it seems you can't find an interesting position without a Ph.D. in my field :/.

btw, i'm pretty surprised that so many people have here a bachelor in more than one thing. Is this usual in the US? Because here it certainly isn't. Wouldn't know how to organize that.
Want to maybe do another one after i'll have gone on pension, but would that would be in a completely other field. To bad that too much stuff is soo interesting.

 

[IglooDame]

I don't get the fascinations with everything being a BA or BS. Not really descriptive.

My understanding is that the difference is in the non-major required courseload. BS = science/engineering-heavy, BA = arts/literature heavy. I'm not aware of any BAs that were required to take mechanical or electrical engineering courses, for example.

 

[Akkon888]

Where do AP and IB classes fit in?

If AP = college course, I have done 'some college' (5 APs so far).
If AP =/= college course, I am in status 'less than high school and under 19 years'.

 

[madviking]

Are you at a university or college?

 

[bestbrian]

BA in History.

 

[Akkon888]

Are you at a university or college?

No, I take these courses at my high school.

 

[madviking]

You're still in high school.

 

[Integral]

PM sent. I'd try to guess your school if there weren't so many colleges around here offering economics degrees.

I know, right?

There are a total of about 100 programs in Economics in the country, and no fewer than eight of them are in the Boston area:
MIT
Harvard
Boston University
Boston College
Brandeis
Northeastern
Suffolk
Tufts

 

[Ahovking]

I'm about to Finnish collage (year 12) and i'm 18 because i repeated year 4 so i should be 17 now planing on going to uni to study political science.

 

[History_Buff]

If I might ask, what is geomatics and why are you pursuing it?

It's location and navigation science. The company I work for does GPS and inertial navigation systems, but not for anything consumer grade.

Rather new discipline, sort of emerged out of land surveying after GPS took off. In fact, many people I graduated with are now land surveyors. You won't find many schools that offer it as a separate degree, because it tends to be a subset of some other engineering factory. But that's why all the big Geomatics tech companies recruit from Calgary

 

[MjM]

I have a BA in BS.

 

[madviking]

I'm about to Finnish collage (year 12) and i'm 18 because i repeated year 4 so i should be 17 now planing on going to uni to study political science.

Which Finnish collage do you like the best?

 

[MjM]

Which Finnish collage do you like the best?

My personal favorite

 

[Camikaze]

Well, here in The Netherlands there is a difference in having a Bachelor or having a BA/BS.

My understanding is that the difference is in the non-major required courseload. BS = science/engineering-heavy, BA = arts/literature heavy. I'm not aware of any BAs that were required to take mechanical or electrical engineering courses, for example.

But even with a difference between a Bachelors and a BA/BS, that still seems pretty narrow! What about a B Commerce? Or a B Economics? I know a couple of people that do a BA, maybe one who does a BS, and then most people do B Comm, BAppSc, B Eng, etc. If Commerce falls under BA, does that mean that Commerce students have to do arts courses? Or if Economics falls under BS, do they have to do science courses? That seems rather odd, when they presumably should be doing commerce and economics courses respectively.

 

[holy king]

i never went to high school.

 

[mayor]

There's a bachelor *withoutAnythingFurtherWithoutFieldOrWhatever* in the netherlands and it's different from a Bachelor of Science/Arts?

Yes and no.
I'm currently studying Comercial Economics at an University of applied sciences. When I have finished my study I'll have a bachelor of commerce. With this I can place a 'B' behind my name.
If I would study CE at an (regular) University I would receive a Bachelor of Science (I think..seems more logical than 'Arts') and would be allowed the 'BSc' behind my name.

Different from germany. With the bologna process, they've adjusted the degrees from both universities and universities of applied science to the same level. So you can get a B.sc/B.A. from both.

There was a whole discussion about this in The Netherlands. The minister had plans to do this but the Universities were oppossed to it (and rightfully so imo) as it would devaluate the value of the BSc and BA titles.

But even with a difference between a Bachelors and a BA/BS, that still seems pretty narrow! What about a B Commerce? Or a B Economics? I know a couple of people that do a BA, maybe one who does a BS, and then most people do B Comm, BAppSc, B Eng, etc. If Commerce falls under BA, does that mean that Commerce students have to do arts courses? Or if Economics falls under BS, do they have to do science courses? That seems rather odd, when they presumably should be doing commerce and economics courses respectively.

The BA and BSc (at least in The Netherlands) are for Academic studies only.
The BA is for studies in Humanities
The BSc is for studies in applied (not to be confused with studies from the University of Applied sciences), social and exact sciences.

As far as I know you don't necesseraly have Art courses for a BA or science courses for a BSs. I don't know where this comes from..