<p>Just Wondering: What are the levels of college degrees, and how long does it take to get them? Also, do all of the levels of degrees have to be in the same area? For example, could you get a Bachelor's degree in law and then a Master's degree in international relations?</p>
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<p>what do you mean? There’s an associates (2 years), bachelors (4 years), masters (2 years usually), doctorates like JD and MD and PhD (take varying amounts of years)… can’t think of much else.</p>
<p>Well…there’s no such thing as a bachelor’s degree in law. But yes, you can major in, say, psychology and go to business school to get an MBA for example. That’s for some cases.</p>
<p>Master’s degrees are occasionally one year. I’ve mostly researched Computer Science grad (and French, but that’s probably not what I’m doing), so ymmv.</p>
<p>Didn’t know that! There are also 5-year BS/MS programs at a lot of schools, often in engineering. Your 4th year you take grad-level courses and your 5th year you finish your master’s.</p>
<p>Nah, there are bachelor’s in Law. They just aren’t around in the US anymore. Not to mention, I believe in the US, even when there was the L.L.B instead of the JD, you still needed a normal undergrad degree. Don’t quote me on that though. There’s actually hot debates about whether JD is truly considered a doctorate. Just because its called Juris Doctorate, many places within the states won’t grant you the legal title Doctor. As for the rest of the world, I believe that having a JD doesn’t entitle you to be called doctor anywhere. Usually only medical doctorate, and research doctorates (PhD, D.Eng, etc) is when they grant you the title Doctor legally. There are also Medical degrees that aren’t doctorates, but again, in the states, the degrees needed to be a physician are MDs. </p>
<p>But to the OP, you have Associate degrees (2), Bachelors (4), JDs (2-3), MDs (4 I believe), masters degrees (most are 1-2 i think depending on where), and PhDs (3+… but typical is 3-5 years assuming you have the requisite masters degree beforehand)</p>
<p>in my major (civil engineering), a bachelors will take 4 years, if you do co-op, a bachelors will take 4.5-5 years, we also have a BS/MS program that takes 5 years to get a masters degree.</p>