M.Sc. or M.S. 1

[MRM]

Quick question: what is the correct way of indicating a Master of Science degree? Is it M.Sc. or M.S.?

 

[whyun]

It seems that many engineers haven't even heard of D.Eng. designation (EngD in the UK). Though Ph.D. is more "typical", some U.S. universities make distinctions between the two. I just don't know how many...

 

[satchmo]

My diploma says "Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering". No BS in my degree!

 

[GregLocock]

Mine says Bachelor of Arts!

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Greg Locock

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[SomptingGuy]

Mine says Bachelor of Arts!

Now you're just showing off. Hasn't it been upgraded to a Masters yet?

 

[KENAT]

Well you've proved the joke at uni wrong.

"What do you say to an arts graduate with a job?

Big Mac & fries please."

I'm a BEng, was gonna be an MEng if it hadn't been for those pesky 2nd year exams!

 

[SomptingGuy]

KENAT, You missed the point. Greg was pointing out that he either went to the second or third best engineering school in the UK. The ones that seem to get into the boat race final every year.

 

[GregLocock]

I don't mind having a BA. I feel that grabbing an MA for no work is cheesy.



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[MedicineEng]

And how do you make the correspondence to other education systems, like for instance, European Latin countries? This now will change with the Bologne process that will uniform the duration of the university degrees and respective nomenclature.
Either way, in my case, my degree was a 5 years and if you don't complete it all, you wouldn't have any diploma (meaning, if you complete 3 years you get a BSc and then the additional 2 years would award you a MSc. This option was not available or you do 5 years or you don't). I believe that the closest that this gets to the UK/US system is a MSc/MS. In my country (in old times) for you to have a "Master" you would need to enroll in an additional 2 years. There was a funny thing that some colleagues after finishing their degree would go to UK for a MSc. Then they would realize that that was equivalent to our 4th/5th year of university.

 

[SomptingGuy]

I don't think it's really possible to compare qualifications from country to country. Styles of education vary so wildly. English 6th form and university education is so narrow that a BSc/BEng/(BA) engineer has probably done far more "engineering" study than an equivalently titled engineer from other countries. And in my university days, MEng often just meant a year's "management" studies on top of a regular BEng degree.