MA without BA ?!?
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- unknown0
homies que pasa?
where them links at?
where them MA holders be?
- unknown0
ûP
- lind0
I know this guy who got a BA and a MA without a high school diploma -- that's the lax CA state university system for you.
- 4cY0
yup.
i do not think all masters are necesserily exact follow-ups of ba's..
that's a misconception.
- unknown0
it would be cheesy to get to do a masters with no experience at all but if you have let's say 2-4 years of experience doing graphic media that counts for something.
innit
- 4cY0
sorry, ignore my post.
- 4cY0
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meh.
- Atticus0
Cheesy? Let me assure you getting into an MA program without a BA does not always mean it's a shortcut. I beat out at least 50 other candidates with BA's including from schools like Cornell and UQAM, you don't graduate from those schools without some degree of achievement. People who don't have a BA have a lot more to prove. I worked my ass off instead of going back to do my junior and senior years and waste my time on useless elective courses. It was a gamble and it paid off. There are only a handful people in my school without a BA but you can be sure every single one of them earned their place there.
Sure your colleague may have cheated the process, but that happens everywhere now and then, not just in education.
Personally I think degrees are a joke after a certain level. I rarely see a correlation between skill and the level of education attained.
- CX0
That's kind of cheesy and annoying to me that someone could get a Masters without having a Bachelors. Why should you get a Masters if you haven't done the four years of work, all the general studies and the foundation of the subject.
I worked with this dude who bragged about his Masters all the time and had a cheesy Board of Trustees Bachelors degree that counted his life experience as school.
So he went to school say 2 years and is bragging about having a Masters. So cheesy.
- Atticus0
We've had this discussion in school and that is my problem if I ever want to teach at an american college. You probably have to be a superstar for them to overlook that. Stupid rule tho IMO
- BonSeff0
would the the MA only have cred in europe? i cant see a US uni hiring a professor with no udergrad.
- jox0
You can do an MA without BA in LA.
TA
- unknown0
bump up the jam
- 4cY0
i would really like to get an MA in some direction.. purely for interest and work distraction..
but i don't even have a BA yet..
:/
oh well, maybe later.
- Atticus0
Also, the Design Academy in Eindhoeven has a good name, despite their godawful site. I didn't get accepted, but I think they consider applicants without BAs. It still is easier with a degree though, the vast majority of people getting in do have undergrad degrees, so don't think you're all set, you have to make up for it in other ways.
- Atticus0
My school http://www.dh.umu.se is free and although they say they require a BA, I didn't have more than 2 years of undergrad at McGill in Montreal.
What good does it do? I'm suddenly getting contacted by the kinds of firms that I didn't even get an answer from in the past. I have hardly added to my portfolio yet, but I couldn't even get small freelance gigs before this and I've only been in school also 5 months. Also an example: starting salary for a junior designer with an MA at Microsoft: $70000- $80000. I'm not saying its like that with all companies but the MA does make a difference.
- drzoom0
... the point of a MA?
-if there is an area which you like to explore in great detail, which you probably won't have the chance to explore at work, you can do that on a MA. I am currently doing one in interactive production and looking particularly into mixed/augmented reality systems. Also conceptually you do get a whole new perspective on things. + it gives you the opportunity to go into teaching, in case you ever get bored of the commercial life.
And I also have to say there is a guy on my course who hasn'T got a undergrad degree (but 10+ years of experience in the field).
- drzoom0
... the point of a MA?
-if there is an area which you like to explore in great detail, which you probably won't have the chance to explore at work, you can do that on a MA. I am currently doing one in interactive production and looking particularly into mixed/augmented reality systems. Also conceptually you do get a whole new perspective on things. + it gives you the opportunity to go into teaching, in case you ever get bored of the commercial life.
And I also have to say there is a guy on my course who hasn'T got a undergrad degree (but 10+ years of experience in the field).
- BonSeff0
so what's the point of getting a MA?
- 4cY0
a lot of the MA's here are in English (if not all!!)..
so no probs there...