What is the difference between a bachelor and a specialist?

More than 50 countries and, above all, Europe has a two-tier system of higher education. Universities annually release from their walls in the "professional" life of bachelors and masters. The question is questionable: where do specialists come from? Also from universities and even can then become masters, like bachelors. To finally not get confused, what distinguishes a bachelor from a specialist, let's take a look at the story.

Origin of the concepts "specialist" and "bachelor"

Bachelors appeared in the Middle Ages in Eastern Europe, even then this concept applied to university students who had reached a certain stage of mastery, degree. One of the versions of the origin of the word "bachelor" boils down to the fact that having attained this degree, the fruit of the laurel was given, and it sounded like "bacca lauri". The term "specialist" in turn refers exclusively to the Soviet space. A graduate specialist named himself, and now is called a person who received a diploma of higher education in a particular specialty. In most post-Soviet countries, including Russia and Ukraine, the degree of "specialist" has already been abolished. Thus, we can say that the main difference between a bachelor and a specialist is in terms of: a bachelor is a scientific degree, a specialist is a qualification.

Differences in the preparation of bachelors and specialists

1. What is the difference between a bachelor's degree and a specialty is the length of the training. Bachelor has to sit at the desk for only 4 years, while a specialist 5-6 years, depending on the specialty.
2. The first two years, future bachelors and future specialists are trained according to one program, the division begins in the third year. While bachelors continue to study general subjects, the specialist moves on to the narrow-profile disciplines.
3. The difference between a bachelor and a specialist at the end of a university is that a specialist receives a diploma in his specialty, and a bachelor's degree in general higher education.
4. Bachelor and specialist can continue their studies in the magistracy. But for the bachelor's and master's degrees, the difference is that the former formally continues to receive higher education and can do it on a budgetary basis , and for a specialist this is a second education, in any case paid.

Advantages and disadvantages

It turns out that to answer the question that a higher bachelor or specialist is almost impossible. Both have received higher education, and they both can work by profession. To the pluses of choice in favor of the bachelor can be attributed the opportunity to consider the choice of specialization. For example, after graduating from a university you can start working and, depending on the field of activity, you can make a choice in a magistracy. The specialist risks, having received a specialty, and does not find it an application in practice.

The obvious advantage is that a bachelor's degree will be for a student who is going to leave abroad, because a bachelor's degree is a standardized standard. At the same time, when applying for a job in Russia or Ukraine, the bachelor's degree is assessed ambiguously - this is a minus. Many employers perceive such education as unfinished, like everything and about anything at the same time. In turn, European and American employers enthusiastically accept bachelors in employees with the prospect of training "for themselves."

From all of the above, we can conclude that choosing a higher education - a specialist or a bachelor, you need first of all to focus on your personal plans. You dream about working abroad or about the earliest economic independence, then the baccalaureate, even in the senior classes, decided on a specialty - obviously, a specialty.