Can someone from the US explain your education degrees?
 

I'm looking at this list of Levels of Education on an advertising demographics text I'm reading and I can't seem to understand all the degrees and levels you have in the US.
In order of difficulty, time or prelation, how are these ranked:

Associates Degree
Bachelors Degree
Graduate Degree

Are they different levels of education or are they similar?

those are various levels of slavery.

associates work the salt mines
bachelors degree holders dig ditches or engineer dams and bridges
graduates are concubines or become rocket scientists

I'm not American so I'm not familiar with the associates degree but a bachelor degree is the normal 3 or 4 year degree and a graduate degree would be after that I believe.

Associates is a 2 year degree, bachelor 4 year, graduate varies as there are several of them- masters, phd, etc.

So a graduate degree would come after a bachelor's?
Is it a requirement to have a bachelor's degree before going on to get a Graduate degree (so 4 years + whatever it takes to get the graduate) or you can just come out of High School, enroll in a Graduate Degree program and study for 5 -7 years?

Bachelors is needed b4 graduate school

You have to have a bachelors to go to graduate school. Likewise you would have to have a masters before a phd even though they are both graduate degrees.

Great, thanks everyone for the explanation!

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Exactly.

I will just add the following :

A higher degree does not translate to a higher salary.
It depends on the area of study.

An associate degree in Auto Mechanic Repair can earn more than a
Masters in Political science who teaches 3rd grade.


My spin :

- Associates degrees are for people who want to learn something
to start making money as soon as possible.


- Bachelors degree is for people seeking more diverse and well rounded
education. With concentration in areas of the abstract, as some ideas
will not even exist in the real world yet. More of a general education with
a choice of study in a particular field(example: Computer Science Major).

- Masters, more extensive in a particular area of study than bachelors.

- PHD, highly specific and abstract and only for well educated people
who already have learned how to learn while earning other degrees.

poifect!!!

the degrees
 

UNDERGRADUATE
Associates: 2 years, generally associated with a trade, such as technology, bookkeeping, hotel management. Can be converted into a Bachelors with a transfer and two more years of school. Cannot go to graduate school.

Bachelor of Arts (BA): 4 year Non-trade degree, such as English, Language arts, Poetry, Women's studies. Course of study can be rather unfocused and wide-ranging. Can go to grad school.

Bachelor of Science (BS): 4 years technical or scientific degree, generally focused on a discipline. Can go to grad school.

GRADUATE
Masters (MA): Generally a 2 year course of study very focused on a single discipline or subject. The holder of a BA in English Liturature might focus on a specific type or period, and have a Masters in English Literature.

Juris Doctor (JD): Masters degree focused on the practice of Law.

Masters of Business Administration (MBA): Masters degree focused on business.

Doctor of Philosophy, or Doctorate (PhD): Further variable length specialization or focus on a discipline or subject. Generally largely self regulated study culminating in the production of a Doctoral Thesis, a paper demonstrating great understanding of the chosen area of study reviewed by professors.

Medical Doctor (MD): Doctoral degree focused on the practice of medicine.

There are tons of others, but those are the most common.

B.S. - we all know what that stands for.

M.S. - more of the same.

P.H.D. - piled higher and deeper.






An oldie I know but it has stuck with me for years :)

Hehe, I don't know what it is with internet entrepeneurs that are always talking about how going to school sucks and is for losers, and slavery,etc.

I am aware that you are more likely to make more money and be happy in life if you are your own boss. That doesn't mean you have to skip education to achieve that.

I know plenty of people that have gone to college, formed their own companies and made plenty of money and are happy.

I am an engineer and while I maybe make more money doing what I do on the internet, I still have my day job and enjoy it. I graduated 3 years ago, so I'm nowhere close to maybe forming my own company or whatever but it's not that far fetched.

Personally, I admire people that dedicate their life to education.I have a couple of friends that have like 3 degrees and are getting their masters and stuff. I couldn't do it, but I admire it.

Well said. Often people seek education to achieve a status or for letters after their name whereas the people that will truly be successful see it as a foundation upon which to build.