Someone asked me the other day what the difference was between a professional degree and an academic degree. I had to think carefully about this, but actually it's quite obvious if you think about who is motivated to study the different kinds of degree.
An MBA is a typical (and probably the original) professional degree. The people who study MBAs are usually working at quite a high level in management, and want to both gain new knowledge and techniques to help them in the work they already do, and they want to be able to use the MBA qualification to strengthen their management resume. They study a number of different subjects and then integrate these in order to apply them to given situations.
An academic degree is usually a graduate qualification that is taken to gain more knowledge in a particular subject area, with greater specialization. Usually acknowledgement is by the academic community, although they are instrumental in gaining certain kinds of employment.
# posted by Mary @ 3:11 PM
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