Originally Posted by
PDR1
But on the other hand "MA(cantab)" is actually a warning that the holder hasn't done a proper Masters, but merely remained alive fro two years and paid an additional fee sence graduating with a BA(cantab).
Actually, it depends what course they studied. If, for example, you studied Engineering Science at Oxford for four years, you were, quite rightly, entitled to be MEng(oxon) immediately on graduation, however, if you preferred to have an MA rather than MEng (a choice one was given at graduation) you could, tediously, only have BA(oxon) on graduation, and had to wait for it to be upgraded to MA(oxon) just like everyone else. So some Cambridge/Oxford MAs are the real deal. But I suspect the type of people who have the real masters degrees generally don't bother with all that pretentiousness - no one has ever cared where I went to university, and I rarely care to tell anybody
