Difference between postgraduate and masters degree...?
Answer:
Bachelors degree = Undergraduate degree
Masters degree = Graduate degree
Doctoral degree = Postgraduate degree
An undergraduate is a student working on their bachelors degree.
A graduate student is any student taking additional studies after graduating with a bachelors degree...typically to get a Masters or Doctoral degree.
A doctorate can be a postgraduate degree.
go to wikipedia and write Master Degree or anything like Ms or Bs and u will get the full explanation
Undergraduate means the 3 or 4 years you study for a Bachelor degree. This is the first degree obtained right after you come out from the high school going in a college or university.
After that you can continue studying by being a postgraduate student. There are 4 major categories of degrees in the postgrad level (UK): Postgraduate certificate, Postgraduate diploma, Masters degrees and Doctorals.
The Masters degree is a degree obtained after following a full programme, which contains taught courses and their exams following by a dissertation. If you do not want to complete a dissertation and just follow and pass the modules then you obtain a postgraduate diploma. A postgraduate certificate is a certificate tells that you follow some courses of a masters.
A Doctoral (PhD) is a degree which takes 3-4 years to complete (full time) followed by a viva (oral presentation).
Undergraduate degree: Starts with post-college qualifications (eg. A level). Normally for a duration of 3-4 years.
Post-graduate degree: Encompasses both Master and Doctoral degree
Graduate courses results in obtaining masters. But Masters degree can be coursework (eg M.sc , M.Eng) or Masters by research ( MPhil ) for a duration of 1-1.5 years full time
Doctoral degree: results in Phd qualifications. for a duration of 3-4 years.
However, there are also MPhil / Phd programmes whereby the student can automatically switch to doctoral courses upon successful completion (usually with high marks) of the MPhil course.
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