Bachelor Degree
Bachelor’s degrees are the main undergraduate courses offered in higher education. They provide a board understanding of the underlying principles and concepts relating to specific or general bodies of knowledge. They prepare students for entry to particular professions, vocations and/or postgraduate study. It usually taker 3 years of full-time study to complete a bachelor’s degree, with some complex courses taking up to 5 years.
Bachelor Degree (Honours)
Many bachelor’s degrees offer a specialized honors year after you complete a degree. You’ll complete a thesis or research project to gain specialized knowledge in your chosen area. Doing an honors year can improve your employment prospects and can lead to postgraduate research study.
Graduate Certificate
A postgraduate course with a six-month duration. Graduate certificates provide knowledge and skills for further study, professional upskilling and employment. A graduate certificate also counts as six months’ full-time study towards a further postgraduate qualification, like a masters’ degree.
Bachelor’s Graduate Entry
These courses are for students who have extensive prior knowledge of the field they are studying. Bachelor’s graduate entry courses can be a shorter alternative to the standard four-year (or longer) bachelor’s degree. They taka at least two years to complete.
Master’s Degree
Master’s degrees are one of the higher levels of postgraduate education. These degrees are usually focused on research and academia instead of advancement in the work force. Pursuing Master’s degree, you will have more of a focus on your chosen field of study than you did during your bachelor’s studies. This is the case because there are no general education requirements related to the degree. It takes approximately two years of study (after earning your Bachelor’s degree) for you to obtain a Master’s level degree. Many people take on a Masters degree in order to pursue employment in a research field or to go on and receive a doctorate level degree.
Doctorate Degrees
Doctorate degrees are the highest level of education that you can receive in the world which includes PhD’s, M.D.’s, DPT’s, law degrees, DDS’s, and a variety of other degrees, each named for the profession(s) that they degree is related to.
At the end of your doctoral studies, you are considered to have the highest level of expertise that you can have in your selected field. Many people with doctorates either work in a medical profession, do research, or work in an academic setting like a college or university as a professor. Doctoral degrees can take anywhere from 3 to 6 years to complete, based on factors such as your current employment status, what field you are studying, and how long it takes to complete your dissertation.
