Academic degrees - Revision history

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EMBA isn't a degree. It's a program that grants an MBA degree at the end.

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‎Number of Degrees Conferred by Columbia and its Peers

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‎Number of Degrees Conferred by Columbia and its Peers

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‎List of degrees offered at Columbia sorted by conferring Faculty

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 An '''academic degree''' is a recognition awarded for having satisfactorily completed a prescribed course of study. In short, it's what you get when you're done. A [[diploma]] is physical proof of having completed a degree.
-Typically a degree is granted by the appropriate [[faculty]] of a university, e.g., [[SEAS|Engineering]], [[Faculty of Arts and Sciences|Arts and Sciences]], [[School of Law|Law]], etc. Typically there's a strong correlation between what you might think of as a "school" and a faculty (though sometimes a faculty can have multiple schools, and things get a little confusing when dealing with the Arts and Sciences at Columbia.)
+Typically a degree is granted by one of the [[faculties]] of a university, e.g., [[SEAS|Engineering]], [[Faculty of Arts and Sciences|Arts and Sciences]], [[School of Law|Law]], etc. Typically there's a strong correlation between what you might think of as a "school" and a faculty (though sometimes a faculty can have multiple schools, and things get a little confusing when dealing with the Arts and Sciences at Columbia.)
 New degree programs are approved by the [[University Senate]].

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 ===Faculty of Business===
 ====[[Graduate School of Business]]====
-*[[Master of Business Administration]] - MBA<ref name="unique">Unique to the school of issue</ref><ref name="majority">Overwhelming majority of degrees conferred.</ref>
+*[[Master of Business Administration]] - [[MBA]]<ref name="unique">Unique to the school of issue</ref><ref name="majority">Overwhelming majority of degrees conferred.</ref>
-*[[Doctor of Philosophy - PhD]]
+*[[Doctor of Philosophy]] - [[PhD]]
 *[[Master of Arts in Mathematical Finance]] (Joint with Mathematics) - [[MA]]

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 == List of degrees offered at Columbia ==
 ===Faculty of Arts and Sciences===
 ====[[Columbia College]]====
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 *[[Doctor of Philosophy - PhD]]
 *[[Master of Arts in Mathematical Finance]] (Joint with Mathematics) - [[MA]]
 ===Faculty of the Graduate School of Journalism===
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 *[[Executive Master of Public Health]] - [[eMPH]]
 *[[Doctor of Public Health]] - [[DrPH]]<ref name="unique">Unique to the school of issue</ref>
 ===Faculty of Dental Medicine===
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 *''[[Divinitatis Doctor]]'' ([[Doctor of Divinity]]) - [[DD]] (unclear if Columbia has conferred one in recent years)
 *''[[Sacrae Theologiae Doctor]]'' ([[Doctor of Sacred Theology]] - [[STD]] (seems to have been conferred independent of UTS<ref>http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?_r=1&res=9907E3DD1F39E13ABC4D53DFB0668382609EDE&oref=slogin</ref>)
 == Number of degrees conferred annually ==

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 :*[[Graduate School of Business]]
 ::*Master of Business Administration - MBA<ref name="unique">Unique to the school of issue</ref><ref name="majority">Overwhelming majority of degrees conferred.</ref>
 ::*Doctor of Philosophy - PhD
 ::*Master of Arts in Mathematical Finance (Joint with Mathematics) - MA

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 ==Number of Degrees Conferred by Columbia and its Peers==
-Columbia has been 'accused' on occasion of being a "degree-mill", since Columbia grants degrees at a significantly higher rate than its peer private schools. In fact, Columbia confers more degrees each year than some large state universities. This is thanks to Columbia's expansive offerings of Masters degree programs relative to its peers (undergraduate degrees make up less than one fifth of the degrees conferred each spring). Consider:
+Columbia has been 'accused' on occasion of being a "degree-mill", since Columbia grants degrees at a significantly higher rate than its peer private schools. In fact, Columbia confers more degrees each year than some large state universities. This is probably thanks to Columbia's expansive offerings of Masters degree programs relative to its peers (undergraduate degrees make up less than one fifth of the degrees conferred each spring). Consider:
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 *'''Faculty of Arts and Sciences'''
 :*[[Columbia College]]
-::*''Baccalaureus in Artibus'' (Bachelor of Arts) - BA<ref name="unique">Unique to the school of issue.</ref><ref name="majority">Overwhelming majority of degrees conferred.</ref>
+::*''Baccalaureus in Artibus'' (Bachelor of Arts) - BA (sometimes abbreviated AB)<ref name="unique">Unique to the school of issue.</ref><ref name="majority">Overwhelming majority of degrees conferred.</ref>
 :*[[Graduate School of Arts and Sciences]]
 ::*Master of Arts - MA