Learn English – Is “completed Bachelor” a correct and natural sounding expression in English

phrase-request

I am searching for a shorter way to refer to a Bachelor I have completed and obtained a degree or to a Bachelor I have not completed.

I thought about writing "completed/uncompleted Bachelor", or maybe "finished/unfinished Bachelor". But the dictionary doesn't list "completed" as a possible adjective and both ways, "finished" and "completed", don't sound natural to me when applied to a Bachelor.

Question: Is it OK to say "completed/uncompleted Bachelor" (or maybe "finished/unfinished") or is there a better expression?

Thanks!

Best Answer

In terms of degrees, an unfinished degree is nothing at all. Usually you would not mention it. A completed bachelor's degree is a bachelor's degree. It doesn't need qualification.

Here are a couple of examples

On an application form, you have to account for all the time after you left school:

2011-2012 Studying for a Computer Science degree (not completed)
2012-2015 Studying for a Psychology degree.

And in the section about qualifications don't mention the Computer science degree at all. Since you don't have any kind of degree in computer science.

2015 BSc Psychology

In an interview:

Do you have any experience with programming?

Yes, I actually started a computer science degree but switched to Psychology after one year. We had learned about algorithm design and the Java programming language.

Why did you switch?

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