Timeline for Why are some non-thesis MS or MA programs just called M?
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| S Apr 24, 2015 at 18:31 | history | bounty ended | CommunityBot | ||
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| Apr 16, 2015 at 19:38 | answer | added | PLL | timeline score: 1 | |
| Apr 16, 2015 at 17:51 | answer | added | dbmag9 | timeline score: 2 | |
| S Apr 16, 2015 at 16:40 | history | bounty started | BCLC | ||
| S Apr 16, 2015 at 16:40 | history | notice added | BCLC | Draw attention | |
| Apr 10, 2015 at 13:54 | comment | added | Compass | @Jack John Doe, Master's in Physiology. The "Science/Arts" is assumed but not included. | |
| Apr 10, 2015 at 10:21 | comment | added | BCLC | @Compass What do you mean by "where the subject is actually appended instead of the general Science/Arts tag" ? | |
| Apr 9, 2015 at 19:02 | comment | added | Compass | I have an MS and I never had to write a thesis. The only non MS/MA I've heard of is where the subject is actually appended instead of the general Science/Arts tag. | |
| Apr 9, 2015 at 16:43 | comment | added | BCLC | @NateEldredge Ah so this may be another academia varies generally thing? Idk at our university it was not stated specifically to the university. I just assumed it was general since I was told that it was a "naming convention" to drop the S from MS if there is no thesis. | |
| Apr 9, 2015 at 16:36 | comment | added | Nate Eldredge | Notations on school ID cards are usually idiosyncratic to the instutition and don't necessarily have any universally standardized meaning. | |
| Apr 9, 2015 at 16:33 | comment | added | BCLC | @NateEldredge They do! Not sure about the business cards though. It's so weird. Their IDs say MoM or example M PSY or M POS (political science). Well thanks anyway. I guess I'll start a bounty sometime in the future | |
| Apr 9, 2015 at 16:26 | comment | added | Nate Eldredge | Oh, you mean a degree whose name is something like "Master of Mathematics" without using the word "science" or "art". I don't think people just use the single initial M for such degrees, do they? (Graduates of that program don't put "John Doe, M." on their business cards, do they?) In general, I don't expect that one can infer from the name of the degree details like whether a thesis was required or not. | |
| Apr 9, 2015 at 15:56 | comment | added | BCLC | @NateEldredge Thanks. I've heard of a program in a school that is called M not MS because it doesn't technically have a thesis. The program does have a research project that is sort of like a thesis. Are you saying you've never heard of a masteral program that is called neither MS nor MA? | |
| Apr 9, 2015 at 15:52 | comment | added | Nate Eldredge | Anyway, it's certainly not a universal convention. The department where I went to grad school offers three masters degrees, none of which have a thesis as an option. Two of them are called M.A. and the other is called M.S. | |
| Apr 9, 2015 at 15:50 | comment | added | Nate Eldredge | I've never heard of this. Can you give some examples? | |
| Apr 9, 2015 at 15:29 | history | asked | BCLC | CC BY-SA 3.0 |