3 years Bachelor degrees in Engineering from Europe are sound to get admission to US masters?

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<p>Hello from italy! </p>

<p>Yesterday, I was searching for info about admission requests for master degrees and I discovered that UCLA had a "strange" requiement for european Bachelor holders from Bologna process; it's said that "Applicants who studied under the Bologna Process should present the master's degree (3 + 2)." (<a href="https://grad.ucla.edu/gasaa/admissions/acadrecs.htm"&gt;https://grad.ucla.edu/gasaa/admissions/acadrecs.htm&lt;/a&gt;). That means that for applying to an US master degree, I should already have one? Looks absurd... why should I apply to a master degree, if I already have one? :-? </p>

<p>I actually have a Bachelor of Management Engineering from University of Applied Science of Southern Switzerland and I was planning to attend a Master in US, but the fact that my Bachelor is on a 3 years basis - like all european bachelors- looks to put a question mark on everything. Is that true? I searched for aswers on google, but the situation looks unclear; what do you think?</p>

<p>I think that comparing the bachelors on the number of years - 3 vs 4 - would be a mistake, because they come from different systems of education. In Italy - and similarly in Europe - the high school (Liceo) lasts one year more than US secondary education and provides a 360° knowledge; for example, I studied at a Scientific Liceo and, despite the fact that the focus was on scientific subjects, I had to study also 5 years of Latin (!), 5 years of Italian Literature, 5 years of English Literature, 5 years of History, 5 years of Art History and 3 years of Philosophy. On the other hand, the bachelor is focused on Engineering subjects only.
American bachelors last longer, but they also look more "broader" and less focused; consequently, I believe that a 3 years european bachelor should be considered at least equal to a 4-years one from US. What do you think?</p>

<p>See you!
TAM :-h </p>

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<p>Many public colleges require you to have a 4 year degree in order to be accepted to their master’s program or require you to take a year of classes first to make up. I believe some private institutions do not have such a requirement.</p>

<p>I was in a master’s engineering program about where a student from Germany was accepted as a visiting scholar for an year after which his credentials were added to make up the 4th year requirement and he completed his master’s with one more year of study.</p>

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<p>I think that many universities are still figuring this out. The 3 year Bologna degree is probably equivalent to the 4-year bachelors degree in the U.S. as is the 3-year degree from the UK. However, the 3-year degree from many universities in India is not considered to be equivalent. At my university, Illinois Tech, we make the distinction but we are private and public universities may have a more difficult time. I know from personal experience that it is possible as my spouse transferred from an Italian university to UCSD many years ago and we successfully argued that her last year of liceo be counted for general education credit in the U.S.</p>

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<p>Thank you! Glad to hear that. :)>- </p>

<p>I find strange the distinction between UK bachelor and bachelors from all other countries of Europe, since after Bologna they should be exactly the same 8-| </p>

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<p>I agree, i would consider all European 3-year degrees the same.</p>