Posted by Jost on November 11, 2006, at 17:37:33
In reply to What exactly is a Grad student?, posted by Meri-Tuuli on November 11, 2006, at 12:41:45
Well, it's kind of like this, Meri:
High School: 10-12th grades--
College: four years, lots of floundering, unless you know what you want to do--
Graduate School:
A. Master Degree-- usually one or two years, leads to MA, MS or occasionally, MPhil
---MPhil (Master of Philosophy) is granted in some programs that don't give a terminal MA-- if you get the PhD, and you kind of get that on the way--- although you could get that if you got into the PhD program and didn't finish for some reason, and they don't give an MA
B. PhD
--usually about two years of course work in a field, then an oral or written comprehensive exam, possibly in several fields of specialties within the general field
--then a thesis, which is supposedly an original contribution to scholarship, book length or so, which eventually could be published as your first book, and which often sets the field in which you would be hired to teach--
at least that's my experience.
So, can you explain how the British system works-- A levels, and all that?
Jost
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