Like, in college. What's the difference between graduate school and undergraduate school? What would Princeton be classified as?
2006-11-26 13:17:34 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Education & Reference ➔ Higher Education (University +)
An undergraduate degree is an associates or a bachelors degree while a graduate degree is a masters or a PhD. Most colleges, including Princeton, have both undergraduate and graduate programs available.
2006-11-26 13:19:56 · answer #1 · answered by c4sgurl 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
After you finish high school, you attend college and begin working on a 4 year degree, called a bachelor's degree. The courses you take are normally undergraduate courses. After you get your bachelor's degree, you begin working on your master's degree. The courses that you take are called graduate courses. You would also work on a long paper called a master's thesis and may do an internship. Many colleges have courses that are numbered. The middle number is normally 1, 2, 3, or 4 for undergraduate courses, and 5, 6, or 7 for graduate courses. The higher the number, the more difficult/demanding the course is.
That is a simplified version of graduate and undergraduate programs. Sometimes undergraduate seniors can get permission to take a graduate course from the professor teaching the course. Also, if a person is working on a doctoral degree (after the master's degree), he/she continues with graduate courses and writes a long paper called a doctoral dissertation.
Princeton has both undergraduate and graduate programs, so it is both.
2006-11-26 13:32:35 · answer #2 · answered by salsera 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Princeton has both an undergraduate and graduate program, so technically it's classified as both. So does Harvard. So do most of the major universities. Sometimes the graduate program is focal point of the school, where most of the resources go to and its prestige is really driven from...sometimes it's the reverse.
Undergraduate school are those years/degrees that someone gets right out of high school...Bachelor of Science, Bachelor of Arts, etc. Graduate school is what someone attends AFTER they've completed their undergraduate program...for example, if someone wants to get a Masters in Business Administration (MBA) or other advanced degree.
2006-11-26 13:22:08 · answer #3 · answered by Shars 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The first 4 years are undergraduate. The masters and doctoral degrees are graduate.
Princeton has both undergraduate and graduate programs.
2006-11-26 13:19:31 · answer #4 · answered by redunicorn 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
undergraduate is when you just got accepted to university, and doing the undergrad programs. graduate means you've graduated from university, and studying to get a masters degree.
2006-11-26 13:19:57 · answer #5 · answered by superboredom 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you are an undergraduate you have your bachelor's degree, and if you are a graduate you have your masters. (PhD.= doctorate)
2006-11-26 13:25:58 · answer #6 · answered by _ 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
only easy way to understand it...
undergrad reminds me of kindergarten to grade 8
where you learn everything you need to know to advance to highschool to build on those subjects
and grad school is like highschool ...where you build on what you already know, until something more interests you.
then college (undergrad) you are building on what you already know, finding out what you like best
and grad school is building on that one area that you like best in hoping to build more on it with a masters/docturate...
hope this helps!
2006-11-26 13:22:57 · answer #7 · answered by sleddinginthesnow 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
GRADUATE MEANS THAT YOU HAVE OBTAINED YOUR BA OR BS DEGREE AND THAT YOU ARE GOING FOR A MASTERS.
UNDERGRAD MEANS THAT YOU HAVE NOT OBTAINED YOUR BS OR BA YET YOU ARE IN THE PROCESS OF OBTAINING IT.
2006-11-26 13:20:42 · answer #8 · answered by Fishgc 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋