Close cooperation between countries affects the culture, traditions and even the vocabulary of individual peoples. So, in the Russian language, a lot of words of foreign origin have recently appeared, the meaning of many of them is incomprehensible to the common man. Recent education reforms have led to confusion about graduate degrees and qualifications. Therefore, many applicants and their parents are interested in what a bachelor, specialist and master are and how they differ.
This system came to us from Europe, and it makes it easier for our graduates to get jobs abroad. In American and European universities, they only know what a bachelor and master are, there are no specialists there, but in our country they are considered something in between the first and second degrees. Accession to the Bologna Convention implies a change in the previous standards of education andtransition to the education system of developed countries.
After studying for four years, the student receives a bachelor's degree, which indicates his full education in a higher educational institution with a third or fourth degree of accreditation. With such a document, you can already go and calmly get a job, another thing is that employers are reluctant to hire such specialists, and the whole problem lies in a misunderstanding of the level of qualification. Many people equate a bachelor's degree with a junior specialist, compare it with obtaining an incomplete higher education, but this is not so.
What is the difference between a bachelor and a specialist? Yes, only by the fact that when students receive a second diploma, more subjects are considered, some of them are studied in more detail. Differences start from the 3rd year, so if you want to switch from a bachelor to a specialist, you will have to pay off academic debt, consisting of previously unstudied disciplines. A specialist diploma implies the ability to occupy leadership positions, but with a bachelor's degree, you can get a regular position as an accountant, engineer, marketer, manager, lawyer, etc.
What is a bachelor's degree is more or less clear, but many applicants do not understand the difference between a specialist and a master's degree. In the first case, you need to study for 5 years, and in the second, 6 years, so is there any point in wasting your time and sitting at the university longer? Everyone should decide this for themselves, but you should not try to get a master's degree just because it is prestigious. Specialist training focuses onpractical application of the acquired knowledge, that is, such students will make excellent professionals in a particular industry. But masters are mainly engaged in scientific activities, so they are trained as future scientists.
It should be taken into account that not all countries have a single concept of what a bachelor is. If in our country and in most European countries this concept refers to young people who have completed 4 courses of the university and received a complete higher education, then in France they call applicants this way. That is, in this country, graduates of secondary schools who have received a certificate are called bachelors. Not everything is so clear in the US. Of course, they know what a bachelor is, because they study according to the Bologna system, but a graduate is awarded a qualification with a specification, for example, Bachelor of Mathematics, Bachelor of Law, Bachelor of Philosophy, etc.
