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Re:The PhD pioneers by CalChris on Thursday December 07, 2017 @09:02PM (#15876138)
Many institutions offers research masters which are not terminal degrees meaning you can go on for a PhD. For example, Stanford CS has the Master of Science with Distinction in Research. Berkeley EECS doesn't and they only relatively recently offered a masters program you can apply to. Previously it was a bailout degree from the PhD program.

https://exploredegrees-nextyear.stanford.edu/schoolofenginee...

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Re:The PhD pioneers by jefft255 on Thursday December 07, 2017 @11:09PM (#15876613)
Most universities in Canada have the same thing. In my university you can do a masters "avec mémoire" (with thesis) which is four semesters of full time research.
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Re:The PhD pioneers by auxym on Friday December 08, 2017 @07:38AM (#15878276)
Yeah, that's what I did, though it was more like 6 semesters including the summers.

You graduate with an MSc or MASc, whereas for the non-research masters, you graduate with an MEng (for the engineering programs).

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