ACADEMIC DIPLOMAS AND DEGREES (SCIENCE)

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• Document Creation Date: December 23, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 18, 2013
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• Publication Date: December 9, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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COUNTRY USSR
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1. The Soviet scientific academic diplomas and degrees (as of 1941) represented the
following equivalents in terms of US academic degrees (as of 1941-1953):
USSR
(a) Technical Diplomate
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mr Trade or Technical School
Diplomate (Secondary Education
Level)
(b) Diplomate of Teaching Institute much less than US AB or BS
(c) Diplomate of Pedagogical
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(d) Diplomate of University
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(e) Candidate Aspirant
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(f)IGraduate Aspirant
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(g) Candidate of Biological � PhD
Science (or other field)
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(h) Doctorate Aspirant = PhD plus 1/
(Fellowship Holder)
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(i) Graduate of (Physician) � Physician
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(j) Doctor of Biology (or other � Pull University Professor
field, including MD)
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!V plus means that the Soviet degree represents more than the US degree
indicated, but not as high a level of training as the next higher US
degree or academic title.
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2. The Soviet Technical Diplomate was a graduate of technical professional and
Pedagogical professional schools, not of higher learning but part of the middle
education system WS equivalent = secondary education level). Such graduates
night be nurses or laboratory workers, for example.
3. The Soviet University degree 2.-e, from an Institution of Higher Education Or
Institution of Higher Technical Education - Vyshee Uchebnoe Zavedenie or Vyshee
Tekhnicheskoe Uchebnoe Zavedenie (WUS:810 or BM 17 represented more than
the US AB or BS degree, approximately the US Masters Degree.
4. Those graduates of a Soviet University chosen for research or work toward a more
advanced degree entered the category of Candidate Aspirant - more or less equiva-
lent to US university graduate student status. Candidate Aspirants were considered
specialists. They might at the sane time be a university Instructor or Assistant
Professor.
5. After three or fouryears work as Candidate Aspirant, and the successful completion,
of course, research, work, tests, language requirements, thesis, approval of thesis
by local research committee, and its defense before a committee of the degree-
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granting institution, the student became a Graduate Aspirant.
50)6, A Graduate Aspirant became a Candidate of Biological Science (or other field)
only after his record and history were reviewed by the Comnittee of Higher Edu-
cation in Moscow, and previous action was confirmed. The thesis was never
50X1 examined, and the Moscow review was mainly political- There were instances where
the title of Candidate of .... was denied, even though the academic record was
excellent.
7. Therefore, the Soviet titles Graduate Aspirant and Candidate of .... were aca-
demically synonomous, but the latter reflected official approval.
8. In 1941, there were only about 200-300 Doctorate Aspirants in the USSR
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These individuals were fellowship holders, and worked
only at the USSR Academy of Sciences (Moscow-Leningrad), SSR Academy of Sciences
of the Ukraine, Academy of Medical Sciences (Moscow), and perhaps also the Academy
of Agricultural Sciences. Hence, the Doctorate Aspirant was the equivalent of a
US 'post-Doctorate Fellowship Holder, receiving a Soviet salary equivalent to a
Soviet University Associate Professor.
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graduates of Medical Institutes, equivalent to US MDs.
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10. Practically all persons who became Candidate of Biological Science (or other
field) Zparl6 abovil continued at universities, technical institutes, etc. After
Considerable further research, and usually between 40 and 50 yrs of age, the sCien-
tiSt Cdould write a new thesis for the Doctor of Science, ordinarily representing
the culmination of some 10 years of work. After a successful defense of this
thesis, he became Doctor of Medicine, of Biology, Technical Science, etc.
11. The research achievements of Candidate Aspirants, Graduate Aspirants, Candidates
of Biological Science (or other field), Doctorate. Aspirant, and Doctors of
Biology, were sometimes less than those of comparable US scientific students and
scientists, because of the general conditions of stress (political scene) in the
USSR.
12. The Soviet Candidate of Biological Science (or other field) and Doctor of Biology
(or other field) are the only two Soviet academic degrees officially so-called.
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