# What is your highest level of education? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [December 1, 2009, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-highest-level-of-education/519550 "2009-12-01T02:25:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Duke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e8c25b/32.png) [@Duke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duke)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2009, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-highest-level-of-education/519550/61 "2009-12-01T18:26:46Z")
D.Phil in Modern History. The answer to the followup question I’m sure many of you might be thinking certainly kicks down a lot of doors in this country, not that I’ve (yet) parlayed it into a snazzy job title or pots of cash. ---
**Author:** ![Algher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Algher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Algher)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2009, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-highest-level-of-education/519550/62 "2009-12-01T18:30:49Z")
BA: Political Science MBA: Presenting powerpoints made by smarter people and claiming credit In regards to US education - a short note: Junior College - get an Associates Degree (two-year). College - get a 4 year bachelors degree, sometimes a Masters. University - get a 4 year Bachelors, Masters, PhD This is far from 100% accurate - just another answer for **Nobody**. We also have private for profit schools (Devry, ITT, Phoenix, National) that are borderline accredited. Some Universities do not consider a bachelors from Devry to be a bachelors, and will therefore not accept a candidate into their graduate programs. Incidentally, some US universities will also not take into their graduate programs people with the 3-year Bachelors degree that is granted in some European model schools. ---
**Author:** ![BetsQ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/fbc32d/32.png) [@BetsQ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BetsQ)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2009, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-highest-level-of-education/519550/63 "2009-12-01T18:34:23Z")
I’m ABD in sociology. Hoping to finish sometime in 2010… Sigh. I’m just not keen about breaking the barrier into my _8th_ year of grad school. ---
**Author:** ![Hippy\_Hollow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hippy_hollow/32/4841_2.png) [@Hippy\_Hollow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hippy_Hollow)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2009, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-highest-level-of-education/519550/64 "2009-12-01T18:45:53Z")
Doctorate in Education. Emphasis in higher education. (It took about 6 years.) ---
**Author:** ![Brynda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e79b87/32.png) [@Brynda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brynda)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2009, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-highest-level-of-education/519550/65 "2009-12-01T19:19:02Z")
PhD in Social Psychology, then retrained in Clinical Psychology (which means extra years of classes and a year-long internship). Yeah, I spent a lot of time in school. 🙂 If I hadn’t gotten my PhD without any loans whatsoever (not true for the retraining), I would be drowning in debt. I once knew a neurosurgeon who was an MD, PhD (in biochemistry) and JD. The formidable brain surgeon biochemist lawyer! The only explanation I have is that he was about 5 ’ 4". ---
**Author:** ![Redwing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/dfb087/32.png) [@Redwing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Redwing)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2009, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-highest-level-of-education/519550/66 "2009-12-01T19:46:02Z")
“Some College” Annoyingly enough, I’ve about reached as far as I’m going to be able to without going back to school for something. The sad thing is that unless I leave this field it won’t matter what I get a degree in so long as I simply have one, and that saps my motivation to get one. ---
**Author:** ![rivulus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/839c29/32.png) [@rivulus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rivulus)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2009, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-highest-level-of-education/519550/67 "2009-12-01T19:51:12Z")
Ph.D. in Musicology and a 575 page dissertation gathering dust on my bookshelf. > [@ErinPuff](#): > > Bachelor’s degree in music composition. I’m in my first semester of a Master’s/PhD program in musicology. Here’s hoping _your_ musicology degree ends up being more useful than mine. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Palo\_Verde](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/65b543/32.png) [@Palo\_Verde](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Palo_Verde)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2009, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-highest-level-of-education/519550/68 "2009-12-01T19:54:13Z")
M.A. in Linguistics from the University of Texas. ---
**Author:** ![Asimovian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asimovian/32/172_2.png) [@Asimovian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asimovian)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2009, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-highest-level-of-education/519550/69 "2009-12-01T20:01:04Z")
> [@Brynda](#): > > I once knew a neurosurgeon who was an MD, PhD (in biochemistry) and JD. The formidable brain surgeon biochemist lawyer! The only explanation I have is that he was about 5 ’ 4". Short people got no reason to…be uneducated? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![whole\_bean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/96bed5/32.png) [@whole\_bean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whole_bean)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2009, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-highest-level-of-education/519550/70 "2009-12-01T20:20:27Z")
JD ---
**Author:** ![bartleby](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bartleby/32/10491_2.png) [@bartleby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bartleby)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2009, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-highest-level-of-education/519550/71 "2009-12-01T20:39:26Z")
I think that i had a class on the fourth floor once… ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2009, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-highest-level-of-education/519550/72 "2009-12-01T20:40:36Z")
Masters Degree in Mechanical Engineering. ---
**Author:** ![Kyla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/eada6e/32.png) [@Kyla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyla)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2009, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-highest-level-of-education/519550/73 "2009-12-01T20:49:37Z")
BA in Anthropology. I’m also about three-quarters of the way through a Masters in Public Policy, focus in international development. ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2009, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-highest-level-of-education/519550/74 "2009-12-01T21:01:10Z")
Diplomate, American Board of Family Medicine. I basically tell folks that I done graduated the 23rd grade. Though technically my becoming a Fellow of the American Academy of Family Physicians was sort of like graduating the 28th grade or so. ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2009, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-highest-level-of-education/519550/75 "2009-12-01T22:42:52Z")
> [@Ruffian](#): > > You have my admiration and respect. My bachelor’s is in social work, and second semester senior year I knew there was no way in hell I could make it my career. My field experiences were quite disconcerting, and once I graduated I made more money doing clerical work than anything I could find available with my BSW. The kind of jobs I was interested in required a MSW or higher, and I had hated my social welfare policy classes so much I wanted nothing to do with more coursework in the subject. > > People say teachers are underpaid and underappreciated, but they are gods compared to social workers. I tip my hat to you. I enjoy telling people I’m doing it for the money. 😃 Seriously, though. Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![UncleRojelio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/unclerojelio/32/3160_2.png) [@UncleRojelio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleRojelio)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2009, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-highest-level-of-education/519550/76 "2009-12-01T22:48:19Z")
BS Computer Science ---
**Author:** ![breezman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4491bb/32.png) [@breezman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/breezman)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2009, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-highest-level-of-education/519550/77 "2009-12-02T00:27:27Z")
PhD in mathematics, specializing in graph theory and combinatorics. ---
**Author:** ![rinni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f6c823/32.png) [@rinni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rinni)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2009, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-highest-level-of-education/519550/78 "2009-12-02T00:51:31Z")
A B.Sc. in psychology. ---
**Author:** ![Add99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/977dab/32.png) [@Add99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Add99)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2009, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-highest-level-of-education/519550/79 "2009-12-02T00:54:23Z")
I never regretted leaving after 10th grade. By the time you finished 4 year college I had 5 employees, happily married with 2 kids. By the next year you were making more money, but I never cared much for money. In my eyes, education and money are a poor measure of anyone’s success. But hey, more for you. ---
**Author:** ![Pithy\_Moniker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8dc957/32.png) [@Pithy\_Moniker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pithy_Moniker)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2009, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-highest-level-of-education/519550/80 "2009-12-02T00:56:43Z")
I have a BS in Electrical and Computer Engineering. I got to tack the ‘computer’ part onto it because I took some software engineering electives. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-highest-level-of-education/519550.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-highest-level-of-education/519550.md?page=5)