Graduate or Bachelor Degree?

After the reform of the Russian system of higher education, there was a certain confusion associated with such concepts as "specialist", "master" and "bachelor". Employers of the last two entries in the diploma of the vacancy seeker are a bit skeptical, since the "graduate" is still more familiar.

If a person encounters these concepts rarely or not at all, he does not see any difference at all. But in reality there is a difference.
A person finishes a higher educational institution and becomes a graduate, that is, he receives a diploma about the end of this very educational institution. The term "graduate" is familiar to us from Soviet times. It also in those days meant a person who received a higher education, that is, graduated from an institute or university.

Today, a graduate is a practitioner who also graduated from an institute or university. But there is no such qualification in the territory of the European Union. Therefore, in connection with the fact that Russia is switching to the European type of training, it is planned to refuse to award the graduates of universities with the title of "graduate".

How in Russia become such a specialist? After five or six years of study at the institute, his graduate is given a diploma of qualification. And a new graduate can start working as an engineer or a teacher. However, if the graduate has a desire, he can continue to study further. In this case, he will receive the next degree - master.

Which is better: an expert or a master?

A master's degree can be obtained as a bachelor, whose higher education was limited to acquiring basic knowledge in the chosen specialty, as well as a specialist. To become a master, it is necessary to spend two more years for training, and then a diploma will be issued on the hands, indicating that the person has been awarded the master's degree of a science. Usually a person who has received such a degree is not engaged in practice, his path is scientific activity.

So, what is the difference between a specialist and a master?

A master's degree is a scientific degree, which, after two years of studying additionally, can be obtained not only by a graduate, but also by a bachelor. At the same time, if a graduate must be engaged in practical work, the master devotes himself entirely to scientific work.

The specialist receives a higher education at least five years, and sometimes six. The bachelor gets it in a shorter time - for four or three years, depending on what his educational base is.

For the first three years, prospective students applying for a bachelor's degree study according to one curriculum in the direction they chose. This time is given for the training of a broad specialist, and in the fourth year they choose a narrow profile.

That is, the bachelor's degree is an excellent opportunity to determine the profile of your education for those students who have not yet done so. It is still possible to study several profiles simultaneously.