Re: What is a master's degree?

In India if you are doing your Engineering its 
12yrs elementary, Middle, High School + 4yrs Engineering + 2yrs Masters

for other college degrees its
12yrs Elementary, Middle, High School + 3yrs College + 2yrs Masters

There are other degrees such as Diploma, Polytechnic etc which which can
be
10yrs or 12 yrs Elementary, Middle, High School + 3yrs year Diploma,
Polytechnic etc.

(This excludes Medical, Dental related education)

- Glenn

-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On
Behalf Of Tim Jowers
Sent: Tuesday, September 27, 2011 7:27 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [Juglist] What is a master's degree?

Hi,

  We recently hired someone who's resume' said "Master's degree" but
looking at their resume they only had 2 years of college TOTAL. i
asked my co-worker about it and he said he saw this difference in
naming in Europe. That the European calls a 2 year degree a Master's
degree. In the USA we call this an Associate's degree. I have for
years wondered how people who claimed to have masters seemed to be
missing much of the basic fundamentals of computer science... because
they didn't even have a junior or senior year of college, much less a
graduate education. So, I now realize Europe and India use the word
'masters' to mean 'associates'; do any other countries or regions also
have this confusion?

Thanks!
Tim

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