What is the correct placing of academic qualifications - i.e. PhD, MA, DipCot, etc? or diploma placed first?

Answer 1

I think it's the highest first and so on?

Answer 2

OH DEAR!!! WHAT A LOT OF CONFUSION!!!
I disagree with all the earlier answers. The correct protocol to follow is that academic and professional qualifications follow your name in the CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER IN WHICH THEY WERE ACHIEVED. (This will commonly lead to a sequence from 'lowest' to 'highest' - but with plenty of exceptions).
This is the ONLY logical means of approach, by the way, because memberships of professional bodies, whether by examination or honour, are often not directly comparable with purely academic qualifications - yet also permit holders to display designatory initials after their names. (Eg: does 'ACCA', the qualification of a fully certified accountant follow, or precede, a BA in accountancy? Answer: It depends WHEN you took it!!)
This is not as insignificant a matter as it appears. According to the principle above, when you look at someones name and credentials, you are then examining not merely a list of 'initials' -but the course of someone's career. Thus, my own list of BA(Hons), PGCE, MSc, RGN - tells people that I WAS a graduate teacher, THEN was an academic - and then trained as a Registered Nurse. Which is much more sensible an arrangement!

Answer 3

You list them from lowest to highest. E.g. I have an honours degree in Psychology and a PGCE, so I would write:

Jane Doe Bsc (Hons), PGCE (post-compulsory).

Masters courses and Doctorates (PhDs) are higher than a teaching qualification, so that would go after the PGCE. E.g.

Jane Doe Bsc (Hons), PGCE (post-compulsory), MA, PhD.

By the way, an undergraduate diploma is lower than a degree, so that would go first. E.g.

Jane Doe, DipEd, BEd, PGCE (primary) English.

However, a post-graduate diploma is higher, so you would write:

Jane Doe, BEd, PGdip

NB. My colleagues and I find this process a bit pretentious, so the only time we list the qualifications after our names is:

1. If we're listed at the back of college prospectuses/quoted in the media.

2. If we have a senior management post.

3. If we're lecturing.

4. if we're carrying out research.

Answer 4

If just writing your name and you have a phd you could put either, Dr whatever, or whatever, Phd

However, if you wish to list your formal qualifications on a cv you would start with the most recently achieved, so

2003-2006 Phd University of Glasgow
2002-2003 MA etc etc
1998-2002 BA Hons etc

If writing your name, for example on a letter head, it starts with the least, but generally one would only put degree level and higher qualifications,

Joe Bloggs, BA (HONS) MA (Oxon) pHD

Check out Debrett's gudie to etiquette for further advice

Answer 5

It is customarily ordered from lowest to highest degree.

Although a lot of people don't realize that (in the USA) the Ph.D. is considered the highest academic degree, ranking over M.D., D.D.S., D.V.M, etc.

Someone with a Ph.D. and an M.D., along with an M.S. and B.S. would put it this way in the most traditional listing: John or Jane Doe, B.S., M.D., M.S., Ph.D. Most dispense with listing the B.S. at that level, however, and often wouldn't list the M.S..

If there is a medical specialty board, however, that is usually listed last.

Answer 6

It's lowest to highest though usually once you achieve a Masters degree you can leave out the Bachelors or Diploma as it's called in some countries.

Answer 7

I believe the proper placing is: Diploma, Masters, then PhD. I have had a diploma ie: two year or so college education, I achieved a Masters Degree, and have no desire to further my education to a PhD!!!!

Answer 8

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Answer 9

Let's say my name is James Barr and I have a Ph.D. in Finance, a M.A. in Education, and a Certificate in Networking.

Now if I were to write my name, I would simply write James Barr, Ph.D. because that's the highest degree I had earned.

But if I were listing my academic credentials, then I would list them from HIGHEST to lowest. So the Ph.D. in Finance would come first, the M.A. in Education second, and the Certificate in Networking third.

Answer 10

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Answer 11

Honestly what matters more is that you have them.

I put MSc, BSc, HND but that's just me. Highest to lowest.