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.
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.
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.
Doctorate in Education. Emphasis in higher education. (It took about 6 years.)
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".
“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.
Ph.D. in Musicology and a 575 page dissertation gathering dust on my bookshelf.
Here’s hoping your musicology degree ends up being more useful than mine.
M.A. in Linguistics from the University of Texas.
Short people got no reason to…be uneducated?
JD
I think that i had a class on the fourth floor once…
Masters Degree in Mechanical Engineering.
BA in Anthropology.
I’m also about three-quarters of the way through a Masters in Public Policy, focus in international development.
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.
I enjoy telling people I’m doing it for the money.
Seriously, though. Thanks.
BS Computer Science
PhD in mathematics, specializing in graph theory and combinatorics.
A B.Sc. in psychology.
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.
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.