Master's degree
Graduate degree — 1 year taught (UK/Australia), 1.5–2 years (US/Canada/EU); taught or research-focused variants.
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All the articles I've posted.
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TU9
TU9 — Germany's 9 leading technical universities including TU Munich, RWTH Aachen, KIT, TU Berlin, TU Darmstadt.
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DPhil
Oxford's term for the PhD — identical academic standing; found also at Sussex and a few others.
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STEM designation
US DHS "STEM Designated Degree Program List" — which academic majors qualify graduates for 24-month OPT extension.
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MD
Doctor of Medicine — 4-year graduate-entry in US/Canada; undergraduate-entry MBBS equivalent elsewhere.
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JD
Juris Doctor — 3-year US professional law degree; prerequisite for US bar admission; LSAT-based admissions.
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MRes
Master of Research — 1-year UK research-methods-focused master's, explicitly designed as a PhD preparation year.
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Coimbra Group
The Coimbra Group — ~40 long-established European universities founded 1985, promoting research collaboration and mobility.
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Ivy League
The 8-member US Ivy League athletic conference — Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Columbia, Penn, Brown, Cornell, Dartmouth — evolved into shorthand for elite Northeastern universities.
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Seven Sisters
The Seven Sisters — historically women's liberal-arts colleges (Barnard, Bryn Mawr, Mount Holyoke, Radcliffe, Smith, Vassar, Wellesley) — still influential.
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MPhil
Master of Philosophy — 1–2 year research-focused master's common in UK and British-system universities.
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EdD
Doctor of Education — practitioner-oriented doctorate, usually part-time, distinct from research-focused PhD in Education.