Degrees

An academic degree is a college or university diploma, often associated with a title and sometimes associated with an academic position, which is usually awarded in recognition of the recipient having either satisfactorily completed a prescribed course of study or having conducted a scholarly endeavour deemed worthy of his or her admission to the degree. The most common degrees awarded today are Associate's, Bachelor's, Master's, and Doctoral degrees.

Degrees in Europe are being harmonised through the Bologna process, based on the three-level hierarchy of degrees: Bachelor , Master and Doctor.

In the United States and Canada, most standard academic programs are based on the four-year bachelor's degree, most often Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), or Bachelor of Science ( B.S./B.Sc.), a one- or two-year master's degree (most often Master of Arts (M.A.), or Master of Science (M.S./M.Sc.); and a further one or two years of coursework and research, culminating in "comprehensive" examinations in one or more fields, plus perhaps some teaching experience, and then the writing of a dissertation for the doctorate, most often Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), or other types such as Doctor of Education (Ed.D.), Doctor of Psychology (Psy.D.), Doctor of Theology, (Th.D.), for a total of ten or more years from starting the bachelor's degree (which is usually begun around age 18) to the awarding of the doctorate.

10. Some quotations by students

“The goal of education is to replace an empty mind with an open mind.”

“The more we study the more we discover our ignorance.”

“Biggest mystery of Maths is that 1000 years passed, millions of theorems were derived, millions of formulas were made but still X is unknown.”

“What is so easy to fail but so hard to succeed?”

“80% of the exam is always based on one lecture that you missed and one topic that you didn’t prepare.”

“Why do we sometimes write “ETC.” in exams? Because it means E (End of) T (Thinking) C (capacity)”.

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