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A standard test for applying to grad schools.

• andybak 6y ago
  What's a grad school? (not joking. Not a US citizen)
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  • saghm 6y ago
    Somewhere you can get a masters (or doctorate) degree; "grad" here is short for "graduate", which is used to describe degrees one gets after receiving a bachelors (or "undergraduate" degree). Most major colleges in the US offer both graduate and undergraduate degrees, but the admissions process for a graduate degree is separate; once you get an undergraduate degree from an institution, you still need to apply to enroll in a graduate program there or elsewhere. It's not at all uncommon for people to attend grad school somewhere different than they went to undergrad, especially if they don't attend grad school immediately after undergrad (as some people work for several years before deciding to go back and get a masters degree).
    • clairity 6y ago
      also, an associates is an undergrad degree too.
      • stan_rogers 6y ago
        Outside of the USA, it wouldn't be a degree, just a diploma. And there would be a distinction between a college that awards diplomas and a degree-granting universtity (which, to make matters more complicated than necessary, usually has member colleges which are not the same as the non-university colleges that award skills/technical diplomas).
    • johnwalkr 6y ago
      I just learned that while in the US "grad school" means "after an undergrad/bachelor degree", in the UK, the term is "post-grad". Not to be confused with post-doc. And in many countries, you can do bachelors, masters and PhD at 3 different institutions. But in the US, usually you have to do masters-PhD in one institution, even if you already have a masters (or is this only in my field?). In other countries, such as France, bachelor-masters is common to do together, in only 4-5 years (or is this only in my field?).
      • saghm 6y ago
        > In other countries, such as France, bachelor-masters is common to do together, in only 4-5 years (or is this only in my field Some schools in the US offer this to undergrads as well; the fancy term that some schools use for this is "submatriculation", which people sometimes shorten to "submat".
      • swimfar 6y ago
        "But in the US, usually you have to do masters-PhD in one institution, even if you already have a masters" That is definitely field specific. I think physics often bundles masters/PhD together. And maybe there others too. But for all of the fields of engineering that I'm familiar with they are completely separate programs.
  • azinman2 6y ago
    Post graduate (meaning college) education. Masters/PhD