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From: gordon@eecea.eece.ksu.edu (Dwight Gordon)
Newsgroups: comp.edu
Subject: Re: The need for an advanced degree
Message-ID: <532@eecea.eece.ksu.edu>
Date: 11 Jan 89 18:52:21 GMT
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In article <967@ccncsu.ColoState.EDU> olender@rachmaninov.UUCP (Kurt Olender) writes:
>
>By all means, get a Master's on the way.  In most schools, it is simply a
>matter of filling out the appropriate forms, and perhaps taking the
>comprehensive exam.  All coursework taken as a Master's student usually
>applies to the Ph. D. as well.  Many schools, in fact, will accept large
>numbers of graduate course work taken at other schools toward the Ph. D.
>coursework requirements. . . .

  BE CAREFUL!  When I was looking at graduate programs (around 1982) I came
to the conclusion that graduate credits transferred about as well as lead
floats! :-)  A degree seems to transfer well, but many schools use graduate
credit requirements (especially at the Ph.D. level) as a revenue device.
To this end they may NOT like transferring raw credits without a degree
to which they are applied.  Kansas State's College of Engineering has limits
as to the number of credit hours that may be applied to their undergraduate
degree.  This is as a means of "quality control."

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