What does your Degree/ Masters/ MPhil/ PhD certificate look like?

tifnstav

mine is in a really nice wooden frame!
its not hanging up though, its in bubble wrap, in two plastic bags, in the bottom of the wardrobe, in the spare room.
no-one needs to see it though, they can tell I'm a graduate cos I wear the mortar board everywhere i go and carry a scroll of paper.

studentphil

Errata wrote: »

Phil, sometimes it goes like this. Concorde captains had a very small length of gold braid on their uniforms to denote their seniority. Baggage handlers had lots of gold braid ! It's not the cover, it's the book.
How did you get on at the Volunteer Bureau yesterday morning? When do you start?

Been in touch with a few places. Just waiting to see what they have.

rainbowtrout

Worse is yet to come--nowhere on my degree certificate does it specify what subject I did or the final class! All it says, in very pompous terms, is 'so-and-so got a BA, dated blah blah'. Just shows the certificate isn't really worth the paper it's written on.

My uni's graduation ceremony is quite merchandised though--you can get a photo of yourself being admitted to the degree for £30? without the University crest or frame, whereas one with the crest AND the frame costs £80. A £50 premium to associate yourself with the university for years to come!

PS. I personally would not have paid 30p for the photo, but my mum insisted...sigh...

studentphil

rainbowtrout wrote: »

Worse is yet to come--nowhere on my degree certificate does it specify what subject I did or the final class! All it says, in very pompous terms, is 'so-and-so got a BA, dated blah blah'. Just shows the certificate isn't really worth the paper it's written on.

My uni's graduation ceremony is quite merchandised though--you can get a photo of yourself being admitted to the degree for £30? without the University crest or frame, whereas one with the crest AND the frame costs £80. A £50 premium to associate yourself with the university for years to come!

PS. I personally would not have paid 30p for the photo, but my mum insisted...sigh...

That sounds a very poor certificate and professional photos are always a rip off.

Errata

studentphil wrote: »

Been in touch with a few places. Just waiting to see what they have.

Good. Now sharpen up your assertion skills and keep on their case. Lots of volunteers needed in Hull, or here http://www.do-it.org.uk/

freebie_junkie

mines lovely, on really thick paper with eth bolton uni crest in colour at the top, then a little silver emossed bit at the bottom, its framed up and takes pride of place right in eth middle of all the framed photos that me and my oh keep on our chimney breast

studentphil

freebie_junkie wrote: »

mines lovely, on really thick paper with eth bolton uni crest in colour at the top, then a little silver emossed bit at the bottom, its framed up and takes pride of place right in eth middle of all the framed photos that me and my oh keep on our chimney breast

That sounds great- enjoy!!

eyelinerprincess

It looks like a certificate. Next!

Riq

rainbowtrout wrote: »

My BA looks like something cobbled together on Publisher. They also offer a more 'ornate' version for £25 extra which is exactly the same as the plain version except the font used is in italics (as opposed to plain boring tahoma). I can honestly award myself something much better given, say, 20minutes in photoshop. Ah well. It's the process that counts. Although you'd think for a 700 year old uni they'd be able to come up with something better.

Not Durham uni is it? Mine is exactly the same as the one you describe.

3plus1

My degree cert is bloody plain and pointless.

Although, having now seen a lot of them from different unis... I've realised that the older and more respectable the university, the less time they spend bothering to make the cert look pretty.