[Magdalen] Tightrope?

[ME Michaud]

But Boston College (a Jesuit institution) has awarded doctorates since God
knows when.
-M

On Wednesday, November 18, 2015, Roger Stokes <roger.stokes65 at btinternet.com>
wrote:

> On 18/11/2015 23:00, Charles Wohlers wrote:
>
>> No. The traditional difference here in the US is that universities grant
>> both undergraduate and graduate degrees, and colleges undergraduate only.
>> Very, very few universities in the US are made up of individual residential
>> colleges in the way that Oxford and Cambridge are.
>>
>
> I think the only collegiate universities we have in the UK are Cambridge,
> Durham, London and Oxford.  Others may have a number of campuses but they
> do not have independent colleges.  I believe I am right in saying that
> universities need to be recognized as having sufficient academic rigour to
> award graduate degrees.
>
> Roger
>