What's your educational level?

It's been a few years since this question was asked! It's time for an update at DegreeInfo.com!

 

This is anonymous folks! Don't be shy!!!

 

So "professional degree" would be JD, MD, DDS, DMD, PharmD, DPM, DVM, DAud, DC, etc.?

 

A bunch of egg-heads in here! Master's are a dime a dozen!

 

A professional degree would be any doctorate that doesn't require a dissertation.

 

I've run these informal polls before and it's simply amazing how many Masters degree holders there are at websites like this. In the layman's world, there aren't nearly as many!

It's interesting to note that no one click on "high school drop-out" as their highest achievement! LOL

We might have high school drop-outs here, but they have achieved much more since that first stumble!

 

I am not shy at all, I only completed a Bachelor, but working ton Master..which attempt to graduate in Summer 2009.

I have a Professional degree, which is called DM, but it is not in there.

 

I've been accused of being a high school drop out. I can honestly say I never dropped out of high school. Before one can drop out, one must first attend. Now if we were talking junior high...

Nobody cares about high school now that I have an MS.

 

Is the MA thingy in history in 2008 completed now? How soon will you receive word on the doctoral thingy in history?

 

Why aren't DBA, EdD, etc. considered professional doctorates?

 

Hint: See my signature line. (Yup, I'm just a dime a dozen. Which must mean I'm worth about 5/6c.)

 

It's my understanding that the DBA, EdD and PhD all require a dissertation. Conversely, the MD and JD do not require the completion of a dissertation; hence, they are professional doctorates.

 

The Ed.D. was originally conceived as a professional doctorate for practicioners that would require an applied project in place of a research dissertation. Like other disciplines (e.g. colleges of medicine and law), colleges of education wanted to control their doctoral degrees, rather than having them administered by the unviersity's graduate college. However, education "wimped out" by not developing a true first professional degree, but just offerring the Ph.D. in education under a new title.

Some individual programs offer a more "applied" Ed.D. track in contrast to their research Ph.D. track, but these are the few exceptions. All of the studies that have been done on the subject show no difference between Ph.D. and Ed.D. degrees, other than a public perception that the Ed.D. is, somehow "lower".

I was a student in a Ph.D. program at one university and had a job change that made it necessary to finish my doctorate at a university that only offered the Ed.D. in my discipline. Having done both, I can tell you that there was really no difference in the requirements for either degree.

 

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I have a dime, I'd like one next!

 

While I haven't started a PhD or EdD program, I have explored options. From what I've noticed locally (if 2-3 hours away can be considered local) is that schools offering both a PhD and EdD have more requirements for the PhD. It seems to me that there are more research oriented courses, and a number of schools seem to require the PhD student to take cognate courses in a discipline outside of education, while EdD students do not. I've also seen schools require PhD students to pass a foreign language exam whereas the EdD student does not.

I'll have a good year and a half to go before I finish my EdS, so I have some time to figure out if I'd want to pursue an EdD or PhD.

-Matt

 

Hi Ted,
Yea I finshed up my MA thingy in History. (Thats why I was liberal with the "dime a dozen" comment)
As of right now, I need to edit the sig line, I'm holding out for AMU to start a doctoral thingy in history. Hopefully its not too far off!
all the best,
Gavin

 

Oh! I just noticed that have the bachelor's in business and the master's in history while I have the bachelor's in history and the master's in business!

 

Congratulations!

 

A poll like this was run a few years back, but it looked completely different. It didn't have nearly as many respondents with Masters or Doctoral degrees -- and there were a lot more respondents with "some college" or Associate degrees.

Veddy Veddy interesting!

C'mon folks, we've got to have more people with "some college" and/or Associate degrees. Just look at the number of people who visit this forum with "some college" who are looking to finish a Bachelors degree!

Speak up and speak out and answer the poll!!!

Pssst! It's anonymous!

 

hello everyone,
Well, I don't have a Masters-----------I have studied the world but master of none!! I have taken some certificate programs like: Rehab Supervisor----to work with Handicapped persons; Desktop Publishing way back when, and recently a Web Design course.

With some minor ones along the way related to the health food industry that I worked in for many years.