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

[Anonymous]

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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

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.

Please show your work.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Please show your work.

The number of master's degrees conferred has doubled since 2000.

https://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d12/tables/dt12_310.asp

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Please show your work.

The number of master's degrees conferred has doubled since 2000.

https://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d12/tables/dt12_310.asp

And? The population of the United States has also increased by approximately 50,000,000 since 2000. What do either of these facts tell us about the average Harvard BA?

(If you are representative of the average Harvard BA I am sorry to say that you are not making a very strong showing.)

[Anonymous]

Also had the most per capita growth:

https://costofcollege.wordpress.com/2014/06/17/proliferation-of-masters-degrees-produces-wasteful-credential-inflation/

Business degrees especially have exploded. The MBA was mostly an elite degree in the 1980s but today it's mostly MBAs from low-quality programs for those who want to get a salary bump.

[Anonymous]

"Educated" refers to having a college education

"Highly educated" refers to an advanced degree beyond a college education

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If you can tell me when the two WWs started and ended. In Europe that would mean most people are highly educated.

This is an incredibly low bar.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:If you can tell me when the two WWs started and ended. In Europe that would mean most people are highly educated.

This is an incredibly low bar.

We need this bar in US.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I hear people on DCUM describe themselves this way. Define which degrees this includes & format of degrees (I would think no online degrees?).

Grad/professional degree from a prestigious university.

[Anonymous]

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!

Even among doctors, a family medicine DO from Arkansas isn't equal to a Neurosurgeon from Johns Hopkins.

[Anonymous]

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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!

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.

PA school yes. NP schools are online.

PA make decent money but a PA clearly wasn't accepted to a MD program and doesn't have further advance training.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:PhD. JD and MD are professional degrees, kind of like vocational school.

100% and I happen to have an MD degree.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:At least some graduate school.

Disagree. I have a masters in education. Dcum would not consider me highly educated, and I don’t either.

Not all graduate school is equal. My program was a joke.

NP. Agree. Masters of Education doesn’t translate into “highly educated” (ironically!)

Everyone who keeps enrolling and doing basic effort, eventually ends up with one so sadly that lowers the social value of it.

[Anonymous]

Highly educated is often code for education generating success or wealth.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

A liberal arts degree is significantly easier than a degree in engineering or physics IMHO. Any dumbass like myself can regurgitate information and figure out how to write a decent paper. There is a reason why so many people get weeded out of medicine, engineering, etc.

Wall Street mostly recruiting at top schools probably has a lot to do with personal bias. It's just a new version of the good 'ol boy network. I'm sure students at top schools are generally bright and received a great education, but there is often a gap between educational achievement and excelling in the workplace.

Maybe someone who attended both a middling school and a top 10 school could chime in.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

There is nothing exceptional about a HYP/Oxbridge education. These kids learn the same stuff that kids at flagship state schools learn. You have all drunk the kool aid.