Timeline for What is the logic behind definition of 1-year master programs in UK?
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| Jul 9, 2021 at 14:34 | comment | added | user128581 | The UK is quite diverse with respect to what a master's degree entails: in addition to research master's degrees, taught postgraduate master's degrees, and integrated four-year master's programmes that incorporate a bachelor's programme as their first three years, one has the first-cycle M.A. of the older Scottish universities, and the Oxbridge M.A., which is not an academic qualification at all, but a badge of administrative rank. | |
| Jul 7, 2021 at 16:40 | comment | added | Taw | There are also 1 year masters programs in the US. | |
| Jul 7, 2021 at 16:14 | answer | added | Nilayan Basu | timeline score: 0 | |
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| S Jul 5, 2016 at 23:35 | history | suggested | Yemon Choi |
The question seems strongly motivated by the OPs reading of, or critiques of, the UK framework
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| Jul 5, 2016 at 23:11 | comment | added | Yemon Choi | It is also the case that UK undergraduate degrees specialise earlier than North American ones, and so it is sometimes argued (I am not saying this is correct!) that 1 year's worth of "Master's level" teaching is enough to bring a student up to the level of PhD entry standard. Since you don't give links in your first paragraph, I can't tell which programmes at which universities you are referring to | |
| Jul 5, 2016 at 23:08 | comment | added | Yemon Choi | I think your question may be putting the cart before the horse. The Cambridge 1-year component of the MMath, a.k.a. Part III of the Mathematical Tripos, was around long before Cambridge thought of trying to bring its qualifications into line with North America and other places. Whether it is better, worse or equivalent is to some extent immaterial: there was a pre-existing system, and it is easier to stick a new label on it than to redesign from scratch | |
| Jul 5, 2016 at 21:48 | answer | added | Patricia Shanahan | timeline score: 0 | |
| Jul 5, 2016 at 20:32 | comment | added | Jouni Sirén | There have been no international standards for academic degrees since the master's degree ceased to be a 7-year undergraduate degree. These days a master's degree can be (at least) an undergraduate degree taking 4-6 years or a graduate degree taking 1-2.5 years. | |
| Jul 5, 2016 at 20:14 | answer | added | StrongBad | timeline score: 5 | |
| Jul 5, 2016 at 19:58 | comment | added | user41207 | @prusswan: Half graduation time often lead to the fact that overall cost of 1-year studies is less than 2-year one. | |
| Jul 5, 2016 at 19:34 | comment | added | Pieter Naaijkens | I don't think that master's programs at these universities are universally 1 year: after a casual check at the Oxford website I already found a few that were longer. I can't speak for the UK, but in the Netherlands there are also 1- and 2 year programs, the difference being that generally the 2-year programs typically include a large research component (e.g., writing a master's thesis), while the 1-year programs are more geared towards a professional career outside of academia. I imagine in the UK there are similar differences. | |
| Jul 5, 2016 at 19:29 | comment | added | prusswan | one year program might be cheaper? | |
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| Jul 5, 2016 at 18:27 | history | asked | user41207 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |