Advanced Professional Degrees
- Public Administration (DPA)
- Education (MEd, MAT, MT, EdS)
- Landscape Architecture (MLArch and/or MLA, LArch)
- Divinity (DD or DMin)
- Social Science (DSocSci)
- Social Work (MSW, DSW, ProfD or PhD)
- Fine Arts (MFA)
- Lawyer (LLM, LLD, PhD)
- Medicine (MD, DC, DM, DO) (advanced degree in countries that award a bachelor degree in medicine or surgery as first professional degree, usually awarded for outstanding research to a particular field of Medicine)
- Dental Science (DDSc, Dr.Odont) (advanced degree in countries that award a bachelor degree in dental surgery as first professional degree, usually awarded for outstanding research to a particular field of Dentistry)
- Surgery (MS, MSurg, MCh, ChM, or MChir) (Usually granted after completion of surgery training program in conjunction with a research thesis)
- Dentistry (MDS, MSD, MDSc, or DClinDent) (these are usually granted at the culmination of a specialty training program in dentistry in those programs that also require research and a thesis to be completed)
- Engineering (MEng, MASc, MMSc, PD)
- Ministry (MTh, ThM, STM, STD, DThP, DPT, PrD, or DMin)
- Worship Studies (DWS)
- Advanced Practice Registered Nurse (APRN: CRNA, NP, CNM, CNS) (DNP, DNAP, DNS, DNSc)
- Science (MS, MSc) (also offered in medicine, dentistry, and pharmacy)
- Doctor of Social Work (DSW, ProfD or DProf)
- Psychology (PsyD)
Read more about this topic: Terminal Degree, Professional Degrees
Famous quotes containing the words advanced, professional and/or degrees:
“But generally speaking philistinism presupposes a certain advanced state of civilization where throughout the ages certain traditions have accumulated in a heap and have started to stink.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)
“I sometimes wonder whether, in the still, sleepless hours of the night, the consciences of ... professional gossips do not stalk them. I myself believe in a final reckoning, when we shall be held accountable for our misdeeds. Do they? If so, they have cause to worry over many scoops that brought them a day’s dubious laurels and perhaps destroyed someone’s peace forever.”
—Mary Pickford (1893–1979)
“No sooner met but they looked; no sooner looked but they loved; no sooner loved but they sighed; no sooner sighed but they asked one another the reason; no sooner knew the reason but they sought the remedy; and in these degrees have they made a pair of stairs to marriage, which they will climb incontinent, or else be incontinent before marriage.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)