# What do you have a degree in? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 26, 2017, 9:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-have-a-degree-in/785268 "2017-04-26T09:40:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![Periwinkle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Periwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Periwinkle)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2017, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-have-a-degree-in/785268/101 "2017-04-27T21:17:00Z")
BS in Accounting and MBA with concentration in Finance. ---
**Author:** ![pullin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c57346/32.png) [@pullin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pullin)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2017, 10:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-have-a-degree-in/785268/102 "2017-04-28T10:27:05Z")
> [@Precambrianmollusc](#): > > BSc Physics with Computational Physics. > Started on a masters focused on underwater acoustics, but gave up to go and earn some cash, floating around the North Sea. Opposite here. I gave up earning cash in the North Sea to go back to school. It took a loooong time to get back to what I earned laying pipe. To the OP: BS Computer Science (Math minor), MS Systems Engineering. ---
**Author:** ![Wednesday\_Evening](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b2d939/32.png) [@Wednesday\_Evening](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wednesday_Evening)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2017, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-have-a-degree-in/785268/103 "2017-04-28T16:53:31Z")
B.S in Civil Engineering, minor in Writing Seminars M.S. in Structural Engineering I was a practicing engineer for a while (with the requisite P.E.s) but now I write and prosecute U.S. patent applications. That writing minor turned out to actually be useful… ---
**Author:** ![pkbites](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pkbites/32/204_2.png) [@pkbites](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pkbites)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2017, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-have-a-degree-in/785268/104 "2017-04-28T17:37:35Z")
Associate Degree in Police Science Bachelor of Arts Socilology Masters Criminal Justice Administration ---
**Author:** ![Precambrianmollusc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/precambrianmollusc/32/63_2.png) [@Precambrianmollusc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Precambrianmollusc)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2017, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-have-a-degree-in/785268/105 "2017-04-29T03:07:36Z")
> [@pullin](#): > > Opposite here. I gave up earning cash in the North Sea to go back to school. It took a loooong time to get back to what I earned laying pipe. > > To the OP: BS Computer Science (Math minor), MS Systems Engineering. Were you on pipe lay barges or rigs. I was rig based MLWD/DD 1995-2000. Spent a lot of time on the 704, Vinlander and, the Clyde. . ---
**Author:** ![antechinus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/fbc32d/32.png) [@antechinus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/antechinus)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2017, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-have-a-degree-in/785268/106 "2017-04-29T03:39:34Z")
BSc Chemistry 1st Hons Organic Chemical technology Grad Dip Computing science Grad Cert Occ Safety Hygiene Like a watered down version of Nava’s quals Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk ---
**Author:** ![TokyoBayer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tokyobayer/32/13989_2.png) [@TokyoBayer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TokyoBayer)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2017, 10:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-have-a-degree-in/785268/107 "2017-04-29T10:24:49Z")
BSEE with minors in physics and Japanese. I never actually worked as an engineer. (So there, Oregon!) But, worked in technical sales and marketing as a career. When I was being interviewed for a job setting up a branch office of a US company in Japan, the VP of Product Development asked if I could handle the technical aspects of the job, I smiled and pointed out my degree on the resume. Overkill, but it allowed me cred with the customers, and engineers in the company. ---
**Author:** ![JustinC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/justinc/32/8083_2.png) [@JustinC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JustinC)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2017, 11:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-have-a-degree-in/785268/108 "2017-04-29T11:49:40Z")
B.A. Economics plus on the job CeMap, retrained doing a Trinity Cert. TESOL. Will do an M.A. when the industry goes through a downswing here and there isn’t another location with sufficient compensation (or there is, but the academic barriers to entry are too high). It won’t necessarily be in either of those two fields but will probably be close the latter. ---
**Author:** ![Eva\_Luna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e495f1/32.png) [@Eva\_Luna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eva_Luna)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2017, 12:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-have-a-degree-in/785268/109 "2017-04-29T12:41:08Z")
B.A. with a major in Spanish, minor in Russian. M.A. in Russian & East European Studies, Politics/Economics concentration. I thought it would lead me into a Ph.D. program in Political Science, but I quickly realized that a) I wasn’t interested in spending the next several years of my life driving myself insane with the hope of ending up with an adjunct job at a second-tier school somewhere; and b) my undergrad professor was right when he said that the kind of social sciences research that was getting funded was quantitative, and I didn’t think that quantitative research made sense for studying the issues I was interested in, nor did I have any interest in doing it. But hey, for those folks who think liberal arts grads are unemployable? I’ve been between jobs exactly once since starting my first post-college job (not counting a break for grad school), and that was all of three weeks. Knock wood. ---
**Author:** ![Bad\_News\_Baboon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/5fc32e/32.png) [@Bad\_News\_Baboon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bad_News_Baboon)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2017, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-have-a-degree-in/785268/110 "2017-04-29T15:51:51Z")
BA in Studio Art BS in Architecture Masters in Architecture. ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2017, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-have-a-degree-in/785268/111 "2017-04-30T04:22:43Z")
> [@Ike\_Witt](#): > > I’m interested :), but I am probably too dumb for you since I only have a BA in Anthropology /archaeology. I was going to post precisely that, especially because of my interest in the elusive Karen, but Archaeology is balanced by Linguistics, though I only speak English. Marine Archaeology, to boot, though I have never scubadived. I truly wasted four years in the early '70s, but there was a shooting war going on. :o ---
**Author:** ![CelticKnot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/celticknot/32/3392_2.png) [@CelticKnot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CelticKnot)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2017, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-have-a-degree-in/785268/112 "2017-04-30T04:35:48Z")
B.S. in Art education (I didn’t take enough foreign language to get a B. A.) Certification in Elementary Education M. Ed. in Curriculum and Instruction with a focus in Reading. All that, and the student debt, and I can’t get the teaching job I want. The state says I need more Reading credits. College is overrated, and the requirements for degrees and certifications/licenses are usually bogus. ---
**Author:** ![nani](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/58956e/32.png) [@nani](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nani)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2017, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-have-a-degree-in/785268/113 "2017-04-30T04:42:24Z")
BA in Religious Studies Master of Theological Studies focusing on Religion, Ethics and Politics Master of Technology Management (In progress) ---
**Author:** ![Melbourne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b5e925/32.png) [@Melbourne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Melbourne)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2017, 9:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-have-a-degree-in/785268/114 "2017-04-30T09:10:05Z")
BE (comms) Bachelor of Engineering, major in communications (radio). My Dad actually /taught/ BE, and didn’t realize that the degree was called BE – he thought that I had made an embarrassing mistake in describing my BSEE degree (what he had). Due to life, I never got into communications - I wound up doing mostly coding, which is much easier. ---
**Author:** ![pullin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c57346/32.png) [@pullin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pullin)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2017, 11:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-have-a-degree-in/785268/115 "2017-04-30T11:21:59Z")
> [@Precambrianmollusc](#): > > Were you on pipe lay barges or rigs. I was rig based MLWD/DD 1995-2000. Spent a lot of time on the 704, Vinlander and, the Clyde. > > . Laybarge only. I was on the SEMAC 1. 1981-1983, mostly in the Forties-C field. ---
**Author:** ![Precambrianmollusc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/precambrianmollusc/32/63_2.png) [@Precambrianmollusc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Precambrianmollusc)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2017, 6:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-have-a-degree-in/785268/116 "2017-05-02T06:39:13Z")
> [@pullin](#): > > Laybarge only. I was on the SEMAC 1. 1981-1983, mostly in the Forties-C field. Cool. Looks like the Semac 1 is still working , as is the Forties field. I took a look for nostalgia and it appears most of the rigs I was on have all been retired and pending scrapping. . ---
**Author:** ![Locrian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/locrian/32/14146_2.png) [@Locrian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Locrian)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2017, 8:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-have-a-degree-in/785268/117 "2017-05-02T08:25:11Z")
BFA in Music - Berklee College of Music BA in English Lit - Drexel University Yeah. The big moneymakers here. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Grim\_Render](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a87d85/32.png) [@Grim\_Render](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grim_Render)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2017, 9:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-have-a-degree-in/785268/118 "2017-05-02T09:40:16Z")
First degree was a Masters in Biochemical Engineering, a long time ago. Second one was a Masters in Management (Health Care), somewhat more recent. MEng and MSc respectively. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2017, 9:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-have-a-degree-in/785268/119 "2017-05-02T09:54:19Z")
You got Masters without previous degrees? ---
**Author:** ![Grim\_Render](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a87d85/32.png) [@Grim\_Render](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grim_Render)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2017, 10:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-have-a-degree-in/785268/120 "2017-05-02T10:22:13Z")
> [@Nava](#): > > You got Masters without previous degrees? I got bachelors too. I just didn’t see the point of listing them. If you go straight on, masters are upgrades rather than separate degrees I feel. But it is quite possible here in Norway to go straight for a Masters as a 4 1/2 years degree. It is certainly the dominant option for Engineering, but that’s a protected title here. Although I got my degrees from the UK. Where it was also possible to do a Masters from the ground up as a 4-year degree. Although I didn’t, getting the BEng first. And then I went into occupational hygiene too. Edit: Now that you’ve made me think about it, it could be a cultural thing. My friends with a PhD in the UK say they have 3 degrees, whereas in Norway you’d normally just list the highest one, unless they were separate subjects. It may be one of the few ways you are allowed to show off in the UK. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-have-a-degree-in/785268.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-have-a-degree-in/785268.md?page=7)