# Where Did You Get Your Bachelor's (or equivalent) Degree? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [October 5, 2009, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-did-you-get-your-bachelors-or-equivalent-degree/512676 "2009-10-05T15:31:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![HeyHomie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heyhomie/32/207_2.png) [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2009, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-did-you-get-your-bachelors-or-equivalent-degree/512676/1 "2009-10-05T15:31:14Z")
For Dopers who have Bachelor’s (or equivalent 4-year degrees), where did you earn you Bachelor’s? ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2009, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-did-you-get-your-bachelors-or-equivalent-degree/512676/2 "2009-10-05T16:16:08Z")
My Ingeniería Superior was equivalent to a bachelor’s in that it gives me access to graduate school no questions asked, but it was 5 years plus thesis (so more akin to a master’s, which in Spain exists only as a private diploma except for the one in Health and Safety) and the courses I took in graduate school were equivalent to parts of subjects I’d had in my first or second year or the Ingeniería (except for one which was equivalent to parts of fourth year subjects). The school was founded by a Jesuit and several of the teachers are Jesuits, but there’s no specific religious affiliation, religion requirements or any of that (the Jesuit teachers offered “theology seminars” for those students who felt like sharpening their logic on something other than orbitals, but it wasn’t linked to the school). ---
**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:** [October 5, 2009, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-did-you-get-your-bachelors-or-equivalent-degree/512676/3 "2009-10-05T16:21:20Z")
It took more than 4 years, but I finally finished it. ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2009, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-did-you-get-your-bachelors-or-equivalent-degree/512676/4 "2009-10-05T16:32:37Z")
University of Central Lancashire. BSc Software Engineering. Worst 4 years of my life. ---
**Author:** ![Oredigger77](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/oredigger77/32/3181_2.png) [@Oredigger77](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oredigger77)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2009, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-did-you-get-your-bachelors-or-equivalent-degree/512676/5 "2009-10-05T16:35:16Z")
I went to a state school that only offered engineering degrees, with three exceptions, and general ed was math through Diffeq but no History or English. I went with Technical/trade school since that’s how I think of it but state college/university would have been equally accurate. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2009, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-did-you-get-your-bachelors-or-equivalent-degree/512676/6 "2009-10-05T16:37:27Z")
State school- University of Central Florida. Now the 3rd largest school in the nation by enrolment. ---
**Author:** ![Claire\_Beauchamp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ec9cab/32.png) [@Claire\_Beauchamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Claire_Beauchamp)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2009, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-did-you-get-your-bachelors-or-equivalent-degree/512676/7 "2009-10-05T16:57:53Z")
What’s with the value judgments on the choices? “Snooty?” I refuse to participate based on the inherent prejudices displayed by the wording used by the OP. ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2009, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-did-you-get-your-bachelors-or-equivalent-degree/512676/8 "2009-10-05T17:03:43Z")
> [@Claire\_Beauchamp](#): > > What’s with the value judgments on the choices? “Snooty?” I refuse to participate based on the inherent prejudices displayed by the wording used by the OP. So I’m guessing you went to a snooty religious school. (only kidding. Couldn’t resist) ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2009, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-did-you-get-your-bachelors-or-equivalent-degree/512676/9 "2009-10-05T17:45:41Z")
I like that Notre Dame gets called snooty but Harvard doesn’t. ---
**Author:** ![MsWhatsit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eb8c5e/32.png) [@MsWhatsit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsWhatsit)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2009, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-did-you-get-your-bachelors-or-equivalent-degree/512676/10 "2009-10-05T17:48:19Z")
Is Northwestern high-class/elitist or not? I am not sure what to pick. Is this one of those, “If you have to ask…” types of questions? ---
**Author:** ![HeyHomie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heyhomie/32/207_2.png) [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2009, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-did-you-get-your-bachelors-or-equivalent-degree/512676/11 "2009-10-05T18:09:47Z")
> [@Claire\_Beauchamp](#): > > What’s with the value judgments on the choices? “Snooty?” I refuse to participate based on the inherent prejudices displayed by the wording used by the OP. That’ll show me! :rolleyes: First of all, interpret the choices as you will. If you think Northwestern is a high-class/elitist school, then pick accordingly. Second, “snooty religious school” means whatever you want it to mean. I, for one, went to a snooty religious school, and I feel no shame about it. It was made clear to me the day I applied that I was expected in chapel twice a week, that there were certain standards of dress & behavior, etc. Snooty, yes, but it was my choice and I accepted it. Third, Harvard & such are not considered “snooty” for this poll because, religious affiliation or not, they are not “religious” schools like Baylor or Notre Dame. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2009, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-did-you-get-your-bachelors-or-equivalent-degree/512676/12 "2009-10-05T18:21:15Z")
I don’t think your definition of snooty quite matches up with the generally accepted one, then. ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2009, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-did-you-get-your-bachelors-or-equivalent-degree/512676/13 "2009-10-05T18:27:03Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > I don’t think your definition of snooty quite matches up with the generally accepted one, then. Words have varying value and meaning depending on what society you live in. In my society snooty is, by comparrison to a large set of words that could be used, a very mild word indeed. ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2009, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-did-you-get-your-bachelors-or-equivalent-degree/512676/14 "2009-10-05T18:35:44Z")
Tough call for me. I went to university in Canada, where the vast majority of degree-granting institutions would fall into the “state college/university” category. We have very few “private” universities; those that we do have tend to be, as far as I am aware, religious schools that are often (though not always) of the fundamentalist Christian type. However, in spite of being publicly-run and funded (i.e. the “state college/university”), we have some absolutely outstanding universities in this country, of the sort that could certainly fall into the “high class” category alongside Harvard and Brown: McGill University, the University of British Columbia, the University of Toronto, and the University of Alberta (among a few others) come to mind–the latter two have produced Nobel laureates, but all of them have certainly produced people who have made their marks in a variety of ways on the national and international stages. As I said, it was a tough call for me. I selected “state college/university,” but as an alumnus of the University of Toronto, where I earned my B.A., I have to refine that to say that I attended a “high class state university.” 🆒 ---
**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:** [October 5, 2009, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-did-you-get-your-bachelors-or-equivalent-degree/512676/15 "2009-10-05T18:38:40Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > I like that Notre Dame gets called snooty but Harvard doesn’t. 'cause it’s true? [d&r] ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2009, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-did-you-get-your-bachelors-or-equivalent-degree/512676/16 "2009-10-05T18:39:30Z")
> [@Lobsang](#): > > Words have varying value and meaning depending on what society you live in. In my society snooty is, by comparrison to a large set of words that could be used, a very mild word indeed. Sure, but it means the same thing in your society as it does in this one. I’m not sure why **Claire** actually found it _offensive_; I just found it curious, since if you asked most Americans which was snootier out of the Ivy League colleges and Notre Dame, they’d say the Ivy League. There isn’t really a UK analogue because there’s no equivalent to Notre Dame that I can think of- plus the Oxbridge colleges are, in a sense, religious institutions. ---
**Author:** ![pricciar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f4b2a3/32.png) [@pricciar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pricciar)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2009, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-did-you-get-your-bachelors-or-equivalent-degree/512676/17 "2009-10-05T18:41:16Z")
> [@Lobsang](#): > > Words have varying value and meaning depending on what society you live in. In my society snooty is, by comparrison to a large set of words that could be used, a very mild word indeed. Sure, it’s mild. But, I have never seen it used to mean religious. ---
**Author:** ![Animastryfe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8797f3/32.png) [@Animastryfe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Animastryfe)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2009, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-did-you-get-your-bachelors-or-equivalent-degree/512676/18 "2009-10-05T18:44:32Z")
Where would the better liberal arts colleges such as Vassar and Amherst fall? ---
**Author:** ![Chessic\_Sense](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7c8e57/32.png) [@Chessic\_Sense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chessic_Sense)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2009, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-did-you-get-your-bachelors-or-equivalent-degree/512676/19 "2009-10-05T18:49:28Z")
U. of Pitt. ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2009, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-did-you-get-your-bachelors-or-equivalent-degree/512676/20 "2009-10-05T18:56:10Z")
> [@pricciar](#): > > Sure, it’s mild. But, I have never seen it used to mean religious. I think it wasn’t meant as an alternative meaning of ‘religous’ - a school that is snooty and at the same time religious. Forgive me but not knowing American culture I’m imagining a school with perfect school uniforms that is only attended by beautiful people (and one ugly person) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-did-you-get-your-bachelors-or-equivalent-degree/512676.md?page=2)