Questions tagged [bachelor]
A first degree from a university or other academic institution for example 'bachelor of arts'
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What are the main differences between undergraduate, master's, and doctoral theses?
When I did my undergraduate thesis, my adviser was expected big on students expecting them working really hard, so it ended up as a reduced master's thesis (most of the reviewers said that it was an ...
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Is it realistic to apply to a Master at MIT, Harvard, Yale, Berkeley, Stanford with a Bachelor of a German Fachhochschule? [closed]
I am a 31 year old German Bachelor-student in his 5th semester in a University of Applied Sciences, studying in Business Information Systems. The total time for receiving the Bachelor is 7 semesters.
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Online checker for Plagiarism: How accurate are they?
I've finished writing my thesis and have done an online plagiarism check. I used https://www.check-plagiarism.com/ to check and got a lot of plagiarism. I don't understand why. You can find an example ...
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Is it ethical to have a relationship with a student after my supervision of him is complete?
I am supervising a bachelor thesis and find the respective student attractive. Would it be ethical/acceptable to get into a relationship with the student after the thesis is completed?
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Doing two Bachelors before Masters degree?
I currently study for my B.Sc. in Media IT. I easily could finish a second Bachelor if I do one more semester. I want to do master's degree in Media IT afterwards.
I'm already 23 and in the third ...
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How many hours a day on Mathematics as a successful student?
My motivation to ask this question actually comes from here, receiving negative reactions for 12 hours a day or even 7 hours spending time on Mathematics.
A person usually spends 4.5 years to ...
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What are my obligations as an MSc holder?
I hold two degrees, a BSc (2011) and an MSc (2013), from the University of Waterloo. I noticed recently that on my BSc it reads "[...] and has been granted admission to that degree with all the rights ...
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Am I naive to think I can focus on professional programming and still be active in the field of CS as a whole?
I am working full time currently as a programmer in a summer internship. In the fall I will be continuing school and working part-time as a programmer.
I believe that I want to be a professional ...
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Difference between "2-year community or junior colleges" and "4 year undergraduate program" in USA
I am confused about the USA education system.
I looked up the Wikipedia page about K-12. In particular, the figure on the right of that page.
Let's supposed I have just finished high school and I want ...
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Starting PhD without Bachelors [closed]
If I'm already at a decent school but don't feel like graduating, and a professor at a university agrees to take me as a pure math PhD student, can I join the PhD program or must I get a Bachelor's. ...
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Pure maths "dropout" wanting to finish MSc thesis
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I'm currently in my thirties. I began my math path with self studying some of the university courses while in high school thanks to the guidance of a prolific mentor at the ...
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Should I worry that my bachelor's degree will be revoked because I only completed half my internship hours?
This happened in 2016. In my college where I got my bachellor degree (no thesis required), one of the requirements to get that degree is to have 600 trainee hours at a company. The company send a ...
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What is the dropout/switch major rate for engineering bachelor?
What is the average dropout and switch major rate for US 4 year engineering college for students entering bachelor's degree program after 2010?
It is pretty hard for me to find any good reference.
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Is it possible to do a PhD in one field along with a bachelor's degree in another field, all at the same time?
I have an MBBS (Medicine bachelor and bachelor of surgery) degree and I am currently doing my master's in biotechnology and planning to move on to a PhD in the same (or a very closely related) field, ...
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