By terminal I meant that the program does not itself offer the PhD, but prepares students for the PhD at another institution. A good program like this will, in addition to good classwork, involve students in research/consulting/practice that helps them prepare a competitive application to PhD programs.
This does describe our program.
However, the term 'terminal' Masters is often used to describe a program intended to prepare students who do _not_ intend to get a doctorate for practice.
Isn't terminology fun. I learned to call it terminal because that's what the folks at William & Mary called it. I always felt this sounded like a program where they shot you when you were done. In advising students I am less reverent (though apparently equally imprecise) and call them "retread" programs.
-Chuck -- - Chuck Huff; http://www.stolaf.edu/people/huff/ - Department of Psychology, St. Olaf College
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