Can anyone help with translating this word, ‘vientisas’. It is applied to university programmes where a student enrols as an undergraduate freshman and graduates five years later with a master’s degree but no bachelor’s degree. Presumably Ph.D. programmes which do the same for a master’s degree would be the same animal, just I need the generic name, not Ph.D. programme.
To avoid confusion, a ‘joint’, ‘dual’, etc. programme is one combining two or more areas or fields such as being awarded two degrees, one in marketing and another in statistics, where there are enough overlapping courses for both degrees to be completed simultaneously.
Thanks in advance.
They offer such a program here at Rochester Institute of Technology. It’s referred to as “accelerated master’s” or “3-2” (3 year bachelor’s, two-year masters", and my roommate (who is an engineering major) seems to be quite afraid of the prospect of it (apparently you take a full 18-credit hour load every quarter for all five years).