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)
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