I don't understand college, can somebody tell me what a bachelor's, and advanced degrees are?

Question

and what are all the degrees? I've heard of undergraduate, bachelor's, and advanced but I don't understand what all that means, and how many degrees can you get and whatever else you can tell me about the way college works; see I want to join the CIA, but they emailed me and told me I need a bachelor's degree and an advanced degree, and training in foreign languages ... and since my initial plan was already to join the army first (I'm 19 now) I'm thinking about joining within 6 months to a year... and using the military's college benefits to take classes as a foundation for a career as a CIA operative, but I'm kind of stressed because I never took tours of colleges or anything in high school. Also I was wanting to use Rosetta Stone software to learn other languages, but I think the CIA wants a mininum of three, and the most important three would be Arabic, Chinese, and Russian.. but with good rosetta stone software all those would be up to $1500, does college have language courses?

Answer 1

A bachelors degree is what you get just by finishing college in a certain class. An advanced degree is where you take or took extra class and put in even more hours. Advanced is like a doctorate degree.

Answer 2

Undergraduate:
* Associates degree - 2 years
* Bachelor's degree - 4 years (sometimes as few as 3 or as many as 5)

Graduate (advanced degrees); must already have a bachelor's
* Certificate - under 1 year
* Master's degree - 1-3 years above the bachelor's
* Doctorate - 2-7 years beyond the master's
* Professional - 3-4 years beyond the bachelor's (law, medicine, veterinary, etc...)

So, asking for a bachelor's degree and an advanced degree means they want you to have over 6 years of full-time college study.

Language skills - Rosetta Stone is really good but you won't learn enough to be language proficient with the software, you'll have to go somewhere and immerse in the language to be proficient.

Answer 3

Bachelors degree is a 4 year degree in a college or university
Advanced degrees are anything above Bachelors, such as Masters or PhD
You definitely need to go to college and yes there are many language classes in college.
Don't make up your mind now about what to do. Being in the army or the CIA requires many sacrifices and thoughful analysis. You need to find a way to pay for your education through scholarships (need based or merit based) or student loans and get a decent job with some experience to see what's going on in the world before trying to become a spy. It's not 007 stuff and probably doesn't pay that well since you have to sign away your life. Good Luck!

Answer 4

If you go in the Army, make the Army pay for it. Colleges have language courses - availability depends on which college. You want to try Military Intelligence, or as close to that as you can if you are wanting to go into CIA afterwards. They don't need 11B (infantry), they want smart people.

Here's the education degrees: Undergrad - like an associates. Bachelor - 4 yr degree. Masters - 6 yr degree. Doctrate - 8 yr degree.

So what the CIA is telling you is you need to have at least 1 Bachelor degree, and 1 Masters degree. The more you have, the more they like you. People in college tend to change their mind on what degree plan they are pursuing, so they can end up having multiple degrees. A lot of degree plans share common courseload, so it isn't a bunch of extra classes to get 2 bachelors if they are in related fields.

Answer 5

Associates degree-Two years of college (Not worth much)
Bachelors degree- Four years of college (average)
Masters degree- Six years of college (leads to a high salary)

Also, in college you can sometimes have a double major. If you want to work for the CIA, and like you said you need languages, you can get a degree in international politics (or something similar) and a language.

Theres also a lot of good help at http://www.collegeboard.com/

hope this helps!

Answer 6

I left school illitertate in 1976: a friend called Harry Nicholson (whose mother was TV interviewer) said I should write, but unknown to him, I couldm't read at this time.

Apart from individual words, but I could not read with any comprehension.

I started to read the Bible after giving God a try.

Later, I went to a college that helped people who missed out on schooling.

And later took some GCSE courses.

Then English A' Level; that I completely failed.

Went on an Access training course at Oswestry College Oswestry.

Phoned up a college to do a degree course in psychology, but was put through to humanities by mistake.

Head of humanities asked, if I had ever taken A' level English, I said I did, but since he did not ask about my mark I got, I did not tell him.

And later came out with a university degree in English combined with Media studies.

I also took Welsh and English history after my history teacher on Access course (called Christina) told me I would never be any good at it. But, I passed both courses with flying colours.

Best way to find out about these things is make an appointment at any college help desk, explaining as you have just done what it is you want, and they will most likely be very glad to help.

You will often find in college that while many students will try and gain information/knowledge from you, they will be reluctant to share what they know with you.

So, if any student is asking you lots of questions, try asking them a few.

If you would like to email me, at [e-mail] I will send you some tips about studying.

meantime, all the best with it.

Answer 7

Look into colleges with a ROTC program and have them pay for your undergraduate schooling since you want to be involved in the military anyway. Look into schools that do a lot of work with the DOE and DOD, in research and grants and such, or have labs that do defense research.

Answer 8

Associates degree: The standard degree awarded by two-year colleges and institutes that normally requires at least two but less than four years of full-time equivalent college work. The associate’s degree prepares graduates for the workforce or for progression toward a bachelor’s degree.

Bachelor's degree: The traditional degree given by American colleges and universities. It normally requires at least four years but not more than five years of full-time equivalent college-level work. The bachelor’s degree prepares graduates for entrance into the workforce or for progression toward a higher degree or certification.

Master's degree: A post-bachelor's degree program that requires completion of a program of study of at least the full-time equivalent of one academic year but not more than two academic years of work. The best known degrees are Master of Arts (M.A.) and Master of Science (M.S.), but there is a huge variety of others (in most industry fields). Some master’s degrees are designed to lead to an eventual doctoral degree. Many other master's candidates are in professional programs, preparing for a special kind of work, such as the Master of Business Administration (MBA), Master of Social Work (MSW), or the Master of Architecture (MArch).

Doctoral degree: The highest degree you can earn for graduate study. The doctoral degree classification includes such degrees as Doctor of Education (Ed.D.), Doctor of Public Health, Doctor of Nursing Science (D. NSc.), Doctor of Psychology (Psy.D.), and the Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) degree in any field (agronomy, arts, business, food technology, education, engineering, humanities, public administration, ophthalmology, radiology, sciences, etc.).

Post-baccalaureate certificate: A focused and professionally oriented program of study that requires completion of additional credit hours beyond the bachelor's degree. These programs are designed for persons who have completed a baccalaureate degree but do not meet the requirements of master's degree programs. Examples include refresher courses or additional units of study in a specialty or sub specialty.

Post-master's certificate: A focused program of study that requires completion of additional credit hours beyond the master's degree but does not meet the requirements of academic degrees at the doctoral level. Examples include refresher courses or additional units of study in a specialty or sub specialty.

Professional degree: An earned degree in one of the following fields: chiropractic (DC, DCM), dentistry (DDS, DMD), medicine (MD), optometry (OD), osteopathic medicine (DO), pharmacy (Pharm.D), podiatry (PodD, DP, DPM); divinity/ministry (BD, MDiv), law (LLB, JD), rabbinical and Talmudic studies (MHL, Rav); or veterinary medicine (DVM).

Yes, colleges offer language courses. You need to sit down with someone and discuss college and what you can expect. If you think $1,500 for software is expensive, you have surprises coming when it comes to the expense of college.