What does “highly-educated” mean in DCUM parlance?

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Anonymous wrote:JD or PhD

A JD is a trade degree. I wouldn’t consider a person with a JD any more educated than a person with a bachelor’s. Both would be highly educated people. Some will continue becoming educated on their own because you can’t stop learning after school ends and still be highly educated.

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Most master's degrees are vocational in nature, as are of course the professional "doctorates" like the MD and JD.

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The only highly educated person I know was my buddy who was removed from the stage at graduation for dancing in a marijuana reverie.

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Is the graduate of Thomas Cooley Law School as highly educated as the graduate of Yale Law School?

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JD, PhD, MD, and very specific master’s degrees (ex. Harvard MBA, Masters in Economics from London School of Economics, etc). This isn’t an exhaustive list obviously. But something like a masters in psychology from GW would not qualify in this region.

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I'd put an MA in philosophy from Tufts ahead of say a JD from say, Thomas Cooley Law School.

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JD, MD, PhD yes. But graduate degrees in general? Nope.

The most common graduate degree is some variant of a master's in education, and teachers get them because they get paid more for having one, period. IMO, they're a joke. Next most common master's degree is the MBA. In general if you're a public sector employee having a graduate degree will get you paid more and/or is a prerequisite for another level. With very very few exceptions, these government employees didn't get MBAs from Harvard, Wharton or Stanford. They bought them from vendors who knew what the customer wanted and delivered it. They're a joke.

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Anonymous wrote:Graduate school from a school that’s at least somewhat competitive.

Sorry, not sorry. Your view is extremely elitist.

This whole thread is elitist! Ha

Someone on this thread said that a bachelor's degree in English from Harvard is highly educated lmao

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Graduate school from a school that’s at least somewhat competitive.

Sorry, not sorry. Your view is extremely elitist.

This whole thread is elitist! Ha

Someone on this thread said that a bachelor's degree in English from Harvard is highly educated lmao

It may rub some the wrong way but it's true. The average Harvard BA is more well-read, more informed than the average holder of a non-rigorous master's degree from an undistinguished program. There's been an explosion of master's degrees due to credential inflation.

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Anonymous wrote:I interpret this as meaning a graduate level education or Phd. To include Law Schools, MBA programs and the like.

I would generally assume the above is from an accredited university/graduate school program. The higher the ranking the more prestigious and difficult to attain.

+1, this is what I take it to mean too. Thought would not include just any graduate degree. Like a 2-year marketing masters from a noncompetitive school wouldn't cut it. A JD or MBA from a competitive program, any PhD, a policy degree from one of the top schools, etc.

Could also mean a graduate of a very prestigious undergraduate program, especially if they graduated with honors. So like a Wharton undergraduate degree, or someone with an engineering or hard science degree from a very competitive program like MIT or CalTech.

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Anonymous wrote:I saw posts recently that described a city as being “highly-educated” due to its hospital presence and I thought to myself, no. I don’t consider nurses, nurse practitioners or PAs to be highly educated. Hospital admins usually have degree mill MBAs. Now the doctors are obviously highly educated!

A highly educated city is different. To me, a highly educated city means substantially more people with at least a college degree. Isn't this a typical demographic question? This would be a numbers debate not a level of education debate.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:JD or PhD

But not an MBA?
Lawyers are so obnoxious.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I saw posts recently that described a city as being “highly-educated” due to its hospital presence and I thought to myself, no. I don’t consider nurses, nurse practitioners or PAs to be highly educated. Hospital admins usually have degree mill MBAs. Now the doctors are obviously highly educated!

You know NP/PA school is an intense 3 years and then you have ongoing education as well. And they're competitive programs to get into. I have a Harvard MBA and consider myself "highly educated" an absolutely think my PA friends are at least as or more highly educated than me.

Yeah I was about to say, my Georgetown grad NP best friend has the same patient load and expectations as all the docs in her practice, minus doing the surgery, so in my view that’s a lot more important then my degree from SAIS.

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Everybody else posting is correct in the way they are typing “highly educated,” and to me highly educated includes knowing (unlike the OP) that adverbs ending in “ly” like “highly” never require a hyphen before the word they modify.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Graduate school from a school that’s at least somewhat competitive.

Sorry, not sorry. Your view is extremely elitist.

This whole thread is elitist! Ha

Someone on this thread said that a bachelor's degree in English from Harvard is highly educated lmao

HYP/Oxbridge provide a truly exceptional undergraduate education. Look at how many bestselling authors and high level journalists have nothing more than an undergraduate degree from these institutions. And why are they favored over MBA's from middling institutions when it comes to the most coveted Wall Street and City of London jobs if the MBA is more "highly educated"? I actually think there is a case for the BA to MA conversion at Oxbridge, their knowledge in the subject probably is good if not better as an MA from a middling institution.