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Except at Aberdeen, Cambridge, Dublin, Edinburgh, Glasgow, and St. Andrews (see below), the MA is typically a "taught" postgraduate degree, involving lectures, examination, and a dissertation based on independent research. Taught master's programs involve one or two years of full-time study. Many can be done part-time as well.
At universities in the United Kingdom, the term thesis is usually associated with PhD/ EngD (doctoral) and research master's degrees, while dissertation is the more common term for a substantial project submitted as part of a taught master's degree or an undergraduate degree (e.g. MSc, BA, BSc, BMus, BEd, BEng etc.).
All but dissertation" (ABD) is a term identifying a stage in the process of obtaining a research doctorate, most commonly used in the United States. In typical usage of the term, the ABD graduate student has completed the required preparatory coursework and passed the required preliminary , comprehensive , and doctoral qualifying examinations ...
ProQuest Dissertations and Theses (PQDT) is an online database that indexes, abstracts, and provides full-text access to dissertations and theses. The database includes over 2.4 million records and covers 1637 to the present. [ 1 ][ 2 ] It is produced by ProQuest and was formerly known as ProQuest Digital Dissertations.
In computability theory, the Church–Turing thesis (also known as computability thesis, [ 1 ] the Turing–Church thesis, [ 2 ] the Church–Turing conjecture, Church's thesis, Church's conjecture, and Turing's thesis) is a thesis about the nature of computable functions. It states that a function on the natural numbers can be calculated by an ...
In Australia, a Master of Research is a postgraduate level research training degree. The program consists of a coursework component and a supervised research project, including a thesis of 20–25,000 words. An MRes is completed within two years, or part-time equivalent. The degree is currently only offered at a limited number of universities ...
At Oxford, Cambridge, and Dublin, a Bachelor of Arts graduate may "incept" as a Master of Arts after a certain period, without further examination or residence but sometimes upon payment of a fee. At Oxford, the MA can be conferred after the twenty-first term following matriculation (typically seven years after entering the university) upon ...
Master of Economics. The Master of Economics (MEcon or MEc) [1] [2] [3] is a postgraduate master's degree in economics comprising training in economic theory, econometrics, and/or applied economics. The degree is also offered as an MS or MSc, MA or MCom in economics; variants are the Master in Economic Sciences (MEconSc), and the Master of ...