Timeline for What are "BS" and "BA" degrees?
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| Nov 11 at 11:13 | comment | added | origimbo | @MJeffryes except when they aren't: st-andrews.ac.uk/study/undergraduate/degree-routes/direct-entry There's also a matching recent growth in Foundation years and non-Scottish Universities to sign up more lucrative international students (see e.g. kcl.ac.uk/international-foundation), but I realise none of those paths are typical. | |
| Nov 11 at 11:04 | comment | added | MJeffryes | @origimbo except in Scotland, where bachelor degrees are 4 years | |
| Nov 10 at 23:42 | comment | added | origimbo | The most common current STEM path in the UK would be three year undergraduate degree plus 1 year taught Masters(BA/BSc/BEng + MA/MSc) or integrated Masters (a 4 year path, not 5 years, with a whole constellation of titles starting with M), then PhD for at least 3 years. So shorter than most of mainland Europe overall, but as 3+1+3 rather than 3+2+3, not because the actual doctorate is shorter. Having said that, it’s both possible to get a PhD place without a Masters, and possible to sign up for a PhD programme with a one year integrated Masters by Research (MRes) | |
| Nov 10 at 19:47 | comment | added | WoJ | @origimbo I think the PhD track in the UK is shorter, though? A friend of mine got on that track after his BA, while I had 5 years of university + 3 years of PhD (at least that was the plan, it got extended a bit due to unforeseen circumstances) | |
| Nov 10 at 17:26 | comment | added | origimbo | You should note that the UK and Ireland also signed up to Bologna. In general, countries have paid lip service to the idea of transferability (e.g. by calling a terminal degree a Masters if it takes more than 3 years or counting things in ECTS units), while carrying on doing what they always did to a great extent. | |
| Nov 9 at 18:24 | history | answered | WoJ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |