April 28, 2009

American Graduate Schools Are Mulling Europe's New 3-Year Degrees

By Aisha Labi

A new survey has found that American graduate schools are increasingly aware of the ambitious reforms that universities in 46 nations are making to conform to an agreement signed in Bologna, Italy, in 1999—reforms that center on making three-year undergraduate degrees standard. But the survey shows that many graduate-school admissions offices in the United States have not decided whether to treat the three-year degrees as equivalent to the four-year degrees earned at American colleges.

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