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From: johnm@uts.amdahl.com (John Murray)
Newsgroups: comp.edu
Subject: Difference in Degrees
Keywords: Ph.D., D.SC., Sc.D.
Message-ID: <02lc3af66p101003bfE@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com>
Date: 2 Feb 89 02:11:10 GMT
References: <2008@lcuxlm.ATT.COM> <00JuC36BGP1010IEdew@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com> <669@wucs1.wustl.edu>
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In article <669@wucs1.wustl.edu>, conrad@wucs1.wustl.edu (H. Conrad Cunningham) writes:
>                   . . ..   (By the way not all research doctorates are
> Doctor of Philosophy--Ph.D.-- degrees;  a few engineering schools grant
> Doctor of Science degrees--D.Sc. or Sc.D. instead.)

Anyone care to comment on exactly what the differences are between these
degrees? Isn't it more of a naming convention than anything else?

- John Murray.