Colorado Technical University

college degrees?

how many years of college are: - bachelors degree - PHD - masters and any other ones. what are the differences between all the different types of degrees? what do you all mean by "thesis"

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Bachelors degree - 120 credits (usually 4 years full time) Masters degree - 60 credits post-graduate (after completion of bachelor's degree, usually takes 2 years full time.) Doctorate (Phd., PsyD., etc.) - credits vary according to program - can be taken directly after bachelor's degree, does not require Masters first in most disciplines - time to completion varies widely, usually at least 5 years, including thesis.
Bachelors = 4 Masters = 6 (generally depending on internships and thesis) Ph.d = 8 - 10 (again, depending on thesis). An associates degree is two years. Basically the difference is the level of study and education. You wouldn't want a doctor with a Bachelors degree hacking you up as he/she wouldn't have had all of the levels of post-grad education and medical school doesn't even start until the Bachelors is done.
It really depends on your major. Typically this is how it is broken down: BA/BS = 4 Years MA/MS= 2 Years (Beyond the undergraduate degree) PhD= 4-7 Years (Beyond the graduate degree) A thesis is basically a large paper you write in graduate school that entails your research in a particular subject. For example, I went to grad school for anthropology but my focus was in anthropological archaeology. My thesis was on my research in anthropological archaeology. At the PhD level you write a dissertation, not a thesis. A dissertation is much larger than a thesis but has the same principle in that it is a written work on the research you have completed while studying in a PhD program.