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hinoisking t1_ja826n6 wrote

When you go to university, you start by doing your 3- or 4-year undergraduate degree. In most places, your undergraduate degree is a bachelor's degree. After you graduate from your undergraduate program and receive your bachelor's degree, you can then choose to complete a graduate (sometimes called postgraduate) degree. These degrees include master's degrees and doctorates.

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umassmza t1_ja8p18b wrote

Often a Masters will come before a doctorate, though degrees like Juris Doctorate (lawyer) will combine both and only require a Bachelors/undergrad to enter the program.

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DennisTheBald t1_ja8ikcn wrote

So if you get an associates you still haven't graduated

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JuicyPancakeBooty t1_ja8nnus wrote

I’m aware of some programs that are specifically 2 year associate degrees. It seems like those are more or less part of the higher education past, but if you have an associates it doesn’t mean you didn’t graduate, it’s just a different degree

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shidekigonomo t1_ja8pgp3 wrote

In the U.S., at least, associate's degrees tend to have a specific vocation as the goal of attaining the degree. In recent decades some schools (generally for-profits) have earned associate's degrees a bad reputation here, though I'm sure the usefulness of different associate's degrees varies from field to field. There are some jobs where an associate's is required for licensing or certification, and others it just looks good on a resume. Do a lot of research and talk to people in the field before pursuing an associate's is the advice I would give (and frankly applies to bachelor's and master's, too).

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SilverDart997 t1_ja8pe3y wrote

I feel like associate's degrees are almost exclusively in smaller colleges. Universities tend to only offer bachelor's and up, but an associate's degree is still a degree

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