What is a Bachelor, Specialist and Master?

The close cooperation of countries affects the culture, traditions and even the vocabulary of certain peoples. So, in Russian recently a lot of words of foreign origin appeared, the meaning of many of them is incomprehensible to the common man. Recent reforms in the education system have led to confusion with the degrees and qualifications of graduates. Therefore, many applicants and their parents are interested in what a bachelor, specialist and master are and how they differ.

Such a system has come to us from Europe, and it facilitates the employment of our graduates abroad. In American and European universities only know what a bachelor and master are, there are no specialists there, and here they are considered something average between the first and second degree. Accession to the Bologna Convention implies a change in the old standards of education and the transition to a system of education of developed countries.

After four years of study, the student receives a bachelor's degree, which indicates his full-fledged education in a higher educational institution with a third or fourth degree of accreditation. With such a document it is already possible to go and quietly get a job, another thing is that employers are reluctant to take such specialists, and the whole problem lies in the lack of understanding of the skill level. Many equate a bachelor to a junior specialist, compared with receiving an incomplete higher education, but this is not so.

What is the difference between a bachelor and a specialist? But only because when receiving a second diploma, students are considered more subjects, some of them are studied in more detail. Differences begin with the third year, so if you want to switch from a bachelor to a specialist, then you have to pay off academic debt, consisting of previously unexamined disciplines. The diploma of the specialist assumes the possibility to occupy managerial positions, but with a bachelor's diploma one can get the usual position of accountant, engineer, marketing specialist, manager, lawyer, etc.

What is a bachelor - more or less understandable, but many applicants do not understand what a specialist from a master differs from. In the first case, you need to study for 5 years, and in the second 6 years, so does it make sense to waste your time and stay at the university longer? This is something everyone must decide on their own, but do not try to get a master's degree just because it's prestigious. In training for a specialist, the main emphasis is on the practical application of the knowledge gained, that is, from such students, excellent professionals of a certain industry will be obtained. But the masters are mainly engaged in scientific activity, that's why they are trained as future scientists.

It should be borne in mind that not all countries have a single concept of what a bachelor is. If in our country and in most European countries this term denotes young people who graduated 4 years of university and received a full higher education, then in France they so refer to entrants. That is, in this country bachelors are called graduates of secondary schools who have received a certificate. Not all is so unambiguous in the US. Of course, what is a bachelor, they know, because they study the Bologna system, but the graduate is assigned a qualification with a clarification, for example, Bachelor of Mathematics, Bachelor of Law, Bachelor of Philosophy, etc.