MPhil Finance at Cambridge

... as all undergrad degrees are awarded an MA ...

seriously? undergrads awarded MA

seriously? undergrads awarded MA

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i am applying for economics. they have option A and B which according to their prospectus are in essence equivalent to a taugh and research MSc elsewhere, respectively. my MIT friend was astounded i applied for Mphil.. but i thought its just the way they entitle their degree

what hobnob, but cambridge is clearly better than all other unis and a degree there is much harder, therfore surely they deserve an MA, cambridge degree>>>>>>>>>>>>Salford so why not show it with an MA

it is something like 9 terms after graduating or some rubbish like that, you dont get it straight away, and you do have to pay an admin fee

lol... thats slow

u know anyone doing economics postgrad at cambridge?
how come no one's replying my thread:'(

As for undergrad MAs - either make them do the extra work to deserve such a degree or stop awarding them given that we now have undergraduate masters degrees available that do entail extra work beyond BSc/BA level.

That's a fair enough point to make, but I don't see why those "MAs" are such a problem, to be honest. They don't count as postgraduate qualifications, after all, and I doubt they'll give anyone an undeserved advantage.

Not in academia, but I can't trust other employers to know that. But conversely it's annoying for me (and potentially problematic) because I got an proper undergraduate masters from an institution that carries out this archaic tradition and I have already had my degree erroneously described by someone (luckily in my presence) as only of bachelor's level because of this practice, even though I had to do extra, advanced work on top of the BSc syllabus.

Not in academia, but I can't trust other employers to know that. But conversely it's annoying for me (and potentially problematic) because I got an proper undergraduate masters from an institution that carries out this archaic tradition and I have already had my degree erroneously described by someone (luckily in my presence) as only of bachelor's level because of this practice, even though I had to do extra, advanced work on top of the BSc syllabus.



But in the scottish ancients the MA is awarded immediately upon graduation creating a real problem in my opinion.

In scotland they do an extra year though.

And we don't have BScs here either. You get a BA for everything (apart from all the vet and medicine complicated stuff that I wouldn't know about).

In scotland they do an extra year though. People get awarded MAs at Cambridge straight away if they've done the extra year that gives them a MA (e.g. engineering and natsci)

In scotland they do an extra year though. People get awarded MAs at Cambridge straight away if they've done the extra year that gives them a MA (e.g. engineering and natsci)

And no one could mistake a MA from Cambridge because it doesn't exist. If I get my MPhil from here then everyone knows that's my masters and not my MAcantab.