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Originally Posted by spondiferous
Sometimes psychotic: here we have a graduate and a post-graduate (Canada). The graduate is the Masters. The postgrad is the PhD, usually. And except under extraordinary circumstances, you always have to do the Master's before the PhD.
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Hmm---for us you apply for a PhD program and get accepted and if you fail you get a masters----all that is free/paid but if you apply for only a masters you have to pay tuition and they won't pay you either----the master's are much more common in bioengineering and fields like that where chemistry and various biology programs usually have the full PhD programs. They are really distinct in that if you get a masters you would still have to go to a full 5 years PhD program---there is no way to extend it once you have a masters---the masters is terminal in those programs....
Now outside of the sciences its totally different....