Ummmm…yeeeah

  • arrow74@lemmy.zip
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    2 days ago

    Stanford did accept him for a PHD program on that degree. Clearly the degree is worth something.

    BA vs. BS usually just indicates how the school organizes programs. My field gets split between the two often depending on how the uni categorizes it, but you can work with either one. For example Oxford only issues BAs.

    Plus the degree is from University of Pennsylvania they have a very good reputation and only offer Physics and the natural sciences as BAs. Probably due to historical organization, uni was founded in 1740.

    Musk can be okay at Physics and still be evil for numerous reasons

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      1 day ago

      Yeah, hence why I said it depends on the school.

      I admittedly didn’t look into where he got his from, so I was speaking more generally about how that organization of degrees tends to work. Usually degrees that have both the Arts ones will be more… “Applied” I guess is the term I’d use? Where they don’t go as heavily into the actual science of it but focus on what someone would need to work directly in that field.