<p>I am just wondering...simply out of curiosity...has anyone here ever gotten an undergrad degree in one thing but a graduate degree in something else? Or is anyone thining about it? If so, what was your undergrad vs what your grad degree? I am just curious. :)</p>
<p>I am also considering the same question. My undergrad majors are subfields of a larger department I want to apply for graduate school.</p>
<p>I got my undergrad degree in Psychology but my current master's program is in Education. I've been thinking that I'm pretty sure I could have done a master's in public policy as well, if I'd wanted. Mostly this is because of the work I did right after college, and the programs I applied to were more "professional"-oriented master's programs than academia-focused Ph.D. programs.</p>
<p>Mqvn, I'm looking into Sociology, Political Science, Education or Social Policy and Urban Policy.</p>
<p>Social Policy is my primary major. My concentrations are education and urban studies.</p>
<p>tenisghs: I think you'll be fine. Make sure that you know a lot about the programs you're applying to and the work that the profs in the department are doing and make sure that you're interested in the same sorts of things. For example, there are likely professors in some sociology departments who work on social policy or urban studies, while there are others who may work on different things.</p>
<p>yeah, sounds fine</p>
<p>My undergrad degrees are different from my MA degree and phD. However, they are all in humanities.</p>
<p>vg1026:
would you mind explaining a bit more about what you did for all 3 degrees? I'm really interested in what you have to say 'cos I'm considering that right now.</p>
<p>Math Majors have an easier time getting admitted to and completing econ ma/phd programs (most of the time).</p>
<p>I know a guy who did his undergrad in biology at Harvard, and is getting a master's degree in civil engineering at MIT. That's a world of difference, you must agree. </p>
<p>Some background might be in order. After graduation from Harvard, he got into Information Technology (basically, setting up computer systems for companies), and he worked in IT for years. Then when he wanted to go back to school, he was looking at grad programs that did a lot of IT. Strangely enough, IT is housed in the Civil Engineering department at MIT, not in the computer-science department which you might expect. The philosophy seems to be that IT has to do with infrastructure (the same reason that roads, airports, canals, and those sorts of things have to do with infrastructure and are taught by the Civil Engineering department). </p>
<p>That's how a Harvard biology undergrad ended up as an MIT civil engineering graduate student. Pretty convoluted path, I know.</p>