I got asked what the difference is between a professional graduate degree and an academic graduate degree yesterday, and I had to do some hard thinking.
In the case of an MBA, it's actually quite easy to define it as a professional degree, because many of the courses are factual in nature, and the graduate part of the program is really about the way that this knowledge is applied across the subject boarders. However, some of the other professional graduate degrees are not quite as easy to define, as they involve some specific training in the indivdual profession.
Academic graduate degrees are often based on research at least in part. This means that the graduate can continue to analyse present knowledge, and use it as a basis to synthesise new knowledge - the expected outcome of research.
# posted by Mary @ 5:56 PM
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