There’s probably no Master of Flute, but there’s certainly a Master of Music in Flute Performance. I have both a BMus (we don’t say BM for, uh, clinical reasons) and a Master of Music in Vocal Performance.
Incidentally, the doctoral degree in applied music is generally a DMA (Doctor of Musical Arts).
Heck, they have B.Math too. And their computer science program offers a B.CS degree.
My father’s degree in physics from Oxford was a D.Phil. rather than a Ph.D. I assumed this was due to some archaic name for the same sort of degree. Or is it because the name was different in the 1940’s?
Nope, the PhD in Oxford is still the DPhil to this day.
I have an artium baccalaureus from an older liberal arts college in the northeast. I believe many of them still use the Latin for their degrees. A quick check of a few shows Princeton, Mt. Holyoke, Williams and Bryn Mawr all use it.
Professional architecture degrees are either B. Arch. (Bachelor of Architecture, what I have) or M. Arch., and some related fields are set up similarly (Landscape Architecture, Urban Planning, etc.). I believe there are Bachelor of Arts or Science degrees with a focus on Architecture, but that’s not a professional degree – you’d need to follow up with an M. Arch to be able to someday become a registered architect.
I assume this setup is to make it very clear what is or isn’t a professional degree.
I understand that some universities have a degree titled simply “Engineer”, which floats somewhere above the master’s level but below the doctoral rank, and is very similar in that regard to eondition humorously known as A.B.D=All But Dissertation.
A number of schools offer the DA (Doctor of Arts); Carnegie Mellon even grants a DA in Mathematics.
As for the term ABD being used humorously, recently I’ve seen it in job postings and on resumes.
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MIT also issues a Scientiae Baccalaureus , which they abbreviate as Sc.B.
I’ve long suspected it was to get away from the term “BS”, no matter what anyone says, just Governor Dummer Academy is now “The Governor’s Academy”, despite still being officially “Governor Dummer Academy”
Jeez, even in English I never heard of ecotrophology–which although admitted as an Engish word, I defy you to explain to someone what you do: Ecotrophology - Wikipedia
Upstream “AB” from Harvard was mentioned: what is this degree?
I was told had my Ph.D. proposal been accepted (?not sure what the actual vestment criteria was) I could at least be walking around with some type of letters as a consolation present. Anyone know about that?
It’s a BA. Harvard just likes to be all Latin-y and call it the “Artium Baccalaureus” (“Bachelor of Arts”).
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Artium Baccalaureus, which is just a fancy Latin way to say “Bachelor of Arts.”
The only thing I know about the academic field of “ecotrophology” is that is basically nutritional science blended with some business administration, economics, social science and psychology. In the olden days, they used to describe the graduates as “university-trained housewifes”, but I guess it’s not acceptable anymore to say that.