For those with graduate degrees..

[Anonymous]

Did you receive your graduate degree in the same subject/discipline as your undergrad? Or did you pursue something different to compliment your undergraduate degree (maybe in a more specialized field)? A few of my colleagues and I got into a discussion about this the other day and am interested in different perspectives.

[Anonymous]

Completely different.

[Anonymous]

Mine is similar, kind of a variation on my undergrad major. I was a double major undergrad, but the grad degree only references one of the two.

[Anonymous]

Totally different. Liberal arts undergrad, then MBA.

[Anonymous]

Liberal Arts undergrad (political science); then law school

[Anonymous]

Complimentary - gov't and psych in undergrad, public policy in grad

[Anonymous]

I hated undergrad and vowed never to set foot on a college campus again as a student. But I went out and worked for a living and got interested in something that led me to graduate school.

So my undergrad degree and experience was unrelated to my grad school degree in that I didn't choose the grad school as an extension of undergrad work. But the underlying interests (social conflict, inequality) were the same even though the disciplines were different.

[Anonymous]

Same subject undergrad and grad degrees.

[Anonymous]

Completely useless (but intellectually very interesting) liberal arts undergarduate degree. Masters degree in a teaching field.

[Anonymous]

My undergrad and grad degrees are completely different. Humanities undergrad degree (dbl major) from a liberal arts college, nary a math a science class beyond the distribution requirements, and my grad degree is in a biomedical science. I took some supplementary classes before applying to grad school so I would have my pre-req coursework done.

Nursing is one of the few professional fields where an undergrad degree in the field is a requirement for being accepted to a graduate degree program in the field (so, one almost always needs a BSN as a pre-req to apply for a Masters in nursing). In my industry, we like to say that requirement is an example of how women (because nursing is still a women-dominated field) eat their own!

[Anonymous]

undergrad in elementary ed, grad in elementary reading and literacy

[Anonymous]

BS chem engineering, JD, MS biotech engineering

[Anonymous]

BA in history then MD/MPH

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:BA in history then MD/MPH

Did you have to take prereqs before doing the MD?

[Anonymous]

Different - liberal arts BA then MS - graduate degree in science

Worked five years in between - but I do a lot of writing in my job so the BA really helped!