So it's not the full, 'I'm gonna go get an academic degree for academic standard' or 'I just want to find out how to grill a steak.
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It is not, nor could any academic degree provide this.
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He admits to a few concerns regarding his course choice, because it is so specific and may leave him with fewer options after university than a more general academic degree such as maths.
The UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science, established in 1945, offers 28 academic and professional degree programs and has an enrollment of almost 5, 000 students.
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The university said it was continuing to recruit students to both areas of study for the intake in September 2004 and would provide existing and incoming students with a "comprehensive service to meet the academic requirements of their degree course".
When Schlunk compared law graduates to their undergraduate-degree-only academic peers, the results were bleak.
During the past year Mr Teare has raised the academic qualifications needed for applications for degree funding.
He had never been on a plane before 1995, when he left his native Orissa, India, at age 23 with a one-way ticket to Logan, Utah, to pursue a master's degree in economics on an academic scholarship to Utah State University.
Inspired by the challenge to invent the future, Team Note-Taker entered Imagine Cup 2011, competing against 67 teams, this group found its direction when member David Hayden, an outstanding academic, struggled to achieve excellence in his degree program of mathematics as a result of his being blind.
The rise of the new, more vocationally oriented degree, often at the expense of older, academic degrees, follows a trend set in America.
The guide's league table is compiled using a number of criteria including student satisfaction, research quality, academic peer review, entrance qualifications held by new students, degree results achieved, drop-out rates and graduate employment levels.
In Oregon, a review of more than 6, 000 students' academic records at the state's 17 community colleges found 109 degree-eligible students and another 905 who might qualify.
For this reason, it was necessary to find a common ground to group the professions, such as the academic background that allows a person to become an auditor (a degree, master's degree or doctorate in accountancy, for example).
But as the recent controversy at University College in London showed earlier this academic year, there are considerable tensions and debates among Muslims about the degree to which science challenges fundamental tenets of Islam.
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Waldron is in the final year of her degree at Birmingham University, but she remains confident that she can balance her academic commitments with her athletics.
The academic curriculum has been designed so that credits earned during the floating semester can be added to any degree course already undertaken by each student.
Was the student enrolled at least half-time for at least one academic period that began in 2012 at an eligible educational institution in a program leading towards a postsecondary degree, certificate, or other recognized postsecondary educational credential?
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He won an academic scholarship to the University of Florida, in Gainesville, where he joined the swim team and earned a degree in engineering, a subject that interested him only insofar as it illuminated the mechanics of, say, how to level a structural foundation or gut-renovate a house.
Harvard has been a strong proponent of using business cases in its MBA degree courses for years and believes the technique can be used by others to improve the quality of their academic offerings.
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