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BA? LIZ? DIPLOME.
Making sense of university degrees in Switzerland, the US and the UK.
With a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree in English from New England liberal arts college, a young American living in Switzerland decided to continue his English studies at the University of Zurich. To his dismay, the university refused to give him more than three semesters of credit for his entire college education. According to Reka Polgar, who works for the Central Office of Swiss Universities, this is not surprising. Many universities in the German-speaking part of Switzerland do not even give one semester's credit for an American BA but instead treat it as the equivalent of a Matura (Maturite), the qualification received by pupils when they complete a form of secondary school called Gymnasium (Gymnase). Karl Spalti, a Swiss operations-research expert, who did a year of graduate school in the US before getting a doctora...See the full content of this document
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