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Revision as of 18:38, 28 March 2012
An Academic degree is a recognition awarded for having satisfactorily completed a prescribed course of study. In short, it's what you get when you're done. A diploma is physical proof of your having completed a degree. Typically a degree is granted by the appropriate faculty of a university, e.g., Engineering, Arts and Sciences, Law, etc. Typically there's a strong correlation between what you might think of as a "school" and a faculty (though sometimes a faculty can have multiple schools, and things get a little confusing when dealing with the Arts and Sciences at Columbia.) New degree programs are approved by the University Senate.
Number of Degrees Conferred by Columbia and its Peers
Columbia has been 'accused' on occasion of being a "degree-mill", since Columbia grants degrees at a significantly higher rate than its peer private schools. In fact, Columbia confers more degrees each year than some large state universities. This is thanks to Columbia's expansive offerings of Masters degree programs compared relative to its peers (undergraduate degrees make up less than one fifth of the degrees conferred each spring). Consider the below:
| School | Degrees awarded (2010) |
| Columbia | 12,575 [2][1] |
| Harvard | 6,777 [3] |
| Yale | 3,243 [4] |
| Princeton | 1,979 [5] |
| Cornell | 6,619 [6] |
| UPenn | 7,432 [7] |
| Brown | 2,259 [8] |
| Dartmouth | 1,726 [9] |
| Stanford | 4,717 [10] |
| University of California, Berkeley | 10,387 [11] |
| University of Michigan, Ann Arbor | 11,594 [12] |
List of degrees offered at Columbia sorted by conferring Faculty
- Faculty of Arts and Sciences
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- Master of Arts - MA
- Doctor of Philosophy - PhD
- Doctor of Musical Arts - DMA
- Liberal Studies MA - MALS
- Master of Science - MS
- Bachelor of Arts - BA
- Bachelor of Science - BS
- Faculty of the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation
- Faculty of Business
- Faculty of the Graduate School of Journalism
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- Master of Arts - MA
- Master of Science - MS[3]
- Doctor of Philosophy in Communication - PhD
- Faculty of Law
- Faculty of the School of Social Work
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- Master of Science - MS[3]
- Doctor of Philosophy - PhD
- Faculty of the Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science
- Faculty of Medicine
- Faculty of the Joseph P. Mailman School of Public Health
- Faculty of Dental Medicine
- Faculty of Nursing
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- Bachelor of Science - BS
- Master of Science - MS
- Doctor of Nursing Science - DNSc[2]
- Faculty of Teachers College
- Faculty of Barnard College
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- Baccalaureus in Artibus (Bachelor of Arts) - BA[3]
- Degrees Conferred Honoris Causa
- Extrafaculty
- Litterarum Doctor (Doctor of Letters) - LittD
- Scientiae Doctor (Doctor of Science) - ScD
- Musicae Doctor (Doctor of Music) - MusD
- Litterarum Humanarum Doctor (Doctor of Humane Letters) - LHD
- Legum Doctor (Doctor of Laws) - LLD
- Divinitatis Doctor (Doctor of Divinity) - DD (unclear if Columbia has conferred one in recent years)
- Sacrae Theologiae Doctor (Doctor of Sacred Theology - STD (seems to have been conferred independent of UTS[4])
References
- ↑ Includes 2,538 recipients of Columbia degrees at affiliated institutions (Barnard College and Teachers College)[1]
- ↑ 2.00 2.01 2.02 2.03 2.04 2.05 2.06 2.07 2.08 2.09 2.10 2.11 2.12 2.13 2.14 2.15 2.16 2.17 2.18 2.19 Unique to the school of issue. Cite error: Invalid
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- ↑ http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?_r=1&res=9907E3DD1F39E13ABC4D53DFB0668382609EDE&oref=slogin
