Very true in my experience. In Brazil, for example, the common engineering curriculum is 5 years and requires an internship and a dissertation, which is gonna b

Very true in my experience. In Brazil, for example, the common engineering curriculum is 5 years and requires an internship and a dissertation, which is gonna be basically a master's thesis - in a good university, which is not the norm around these parts, so I'm very biased -. Many colleagues of mine go to Germany for their master's and get surprised when they realise they already studied most of the material in their undergrad education here.