Plenty of hits on google, Linguee etc...

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Given the specific subject studied plus the fact that there was a jury, this is surely a one-year Master's Degree, sometimes called a Master(s) 1,
Yes, you could just say "University Degree/Diploma" as the text describes what it was but I kind of prefer my translation here to dispel any possible confusion from the start

It could be either a diploma or a degree, but it's not definite which one. The text explains:
'Given the administrative counsel decision from the university, alongside the written work submitted from the student, a certificate can be endorsed with the subjects mentioned. Following a verbal assessment the student meets the requirements with demonstrated knowledge, aptitude and skill in the year 2018-19.'

This post is to provide further information and a more specific suggestion for this particular course. I am aware that my first suggestion has already been posted. I wish to demonstrate why this one may be described as a "post-graduate diploma", essentially as the candidates to the course are required to have bac+3 level, thus a first degree already under their belt. This would probably satisfy requirements for a description as a post-grad course in the UK. This is NOT a degree.

This is the course Uni's online info about the DU in question. It does not appear to be available in French and I suspect they don't realise that it may be misleading in its title. Believe you me, if it were a master's course, it would say so. Masters degrees are national qualifications validated by the Ministère de l'éducation. Further, they are described as Master 1 ou Master 2 and so on. However, in the continuing education field, the DUs and DIUs are awarded by a uni (or two for a DIU) by unis who have been authorised to award them. They may require you to have a first degree, or even a higher level degree. That does not mean they qualify as a "degree".

For those of you who are familiar with the UK's descriptions, a master's degree in the UK is a post-graduate qualification. However, not all post-grad qualifications are degrees. This is the same here with the DU/DIUs in France.

A DU (or DIU, where 2 unis collaborate on a diploma) is specifically outside the usual LMD circuit. It will meet specific criteria, but is an "in-house" university diploma. They are usually part-time as they often have vocational objectives and are aimed at professionally qualified people. Some will have specific scientific objectives and others will have cultural aims. Most require a dissertation and many require an internship without which the DU will not be awarded. They are commonly taken by people wishing to further their career, through personal interest or from a choice that will support the career they are doing and to meet continuing education criteria.
Scroll down and read the "Et après?" section. It sets out various pathways open to students once they have passed this DU. Note that this particular DU's description suggests that the better students may access the fast-track route to a specific Master's and that it may facilitate getting a place onto the formal French-language master's course (in other words, the national masters course).


When I did my DU en Autisme et autres troubles précoces du développement at the Université de Tours, run by the Faculty of Medicine and the regional autism centre, I was planning a career change and about to embark upon a research masters in biology and neuroscience. At the time I was working as one-to-one support in the classroom with a child on the spectrum (as well as working as a translator and linguist). The course was every Thursday and Friday once a month. There were 15 of us and the group included doctors, social workers, educators, speech language therapists and psychologists. Recruitment of the students onto the course required a minimum level of bac+3, an equivalent to an undergraduate degree. Some require less, some require more and experience may be considered equivalent. Some DUs are "diplômants" and others are "certifiants". The point is that these qualifications are not degrees. To describe them as such is misleading.

https://formations.pantheonsorbonne.fr/fr/catalogue-des-form...

These sources should make things clearer:

Note the "cas particulier" here :
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diplôme_d'université_(France)

A brief description that is helpful:
https://formations.univ-lorraine.fr/fr/22-diplome-d-universi...

"In France, un diplôme universitaire (DU) ou inter-universitaire (DIU) est un diplôme délivré par une université française, un grand établissement ou un autre Établissement public à caractère scientifique, culturel et professionnel, ou plusieurs établissements conjointement, contrairement aux diplômes nationaux qui sont délivrés au nom du ministère. Les DU sont organisés par une seule université, tandis que les DIU associent plusieurs universités pour organiser la même formation (qui a souvent lieu dans les différentes villes)."

https://www.studyrama.com/formations/diplomes/licence/focus-...

https://www.doctorama.fr/fr/lexique/du.htm



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Note that in courses outside the LMD framework (which are national diplomas in the sense that they are validated by the Ministry of HIgher Educatioetc), some state universities are authorised to offer DUs/DIUs as part of their continuing education programmes. Some also offer other courses/diplomas that will be described as "Magistères". These do not fall within the state LMD framework and from a number of forums I have seen, many students from overseas, a minority overall, but nevertheless a significant number of students, will sign up for such courses believing them to be a Master's course. Some are excellent and highly selective. They enable unis to offer something a little more innovative and free of the standard national degree requirements.

It's extremely important in translations relating to qualifications that a translator does not give the impression that a particular qualification matches a particular level, even if some actually DUs do come close, or even beyond. Just because a DU recruits its candidates at a Bac+3 level does not mean that the DU suddenly qualifies as a "master's" equivalent. Dito a bac+2 DU, which does not become a "licence". Hey, some require a bac+5 or more, which does not make them a degree course either. It's all about equivalences and a DU is not a degree. And a DU which describes itself as a "mastère" or a "magistère" is playing on words and complicating the already complicated life of a translator trying to do a good job; one of which, I hasten to add, is not standing in the shoes of an equivalence commission, whether within the same country or overseas.

There have been a couple of cases where students being unsuccessful in getting onto a selective (national) masters degree course in one of France's state universities having managed to get onto a Master's course offered by a foreign public university with a branch in France. It came to light as being significant when the rules on selective entry onto Masters' courses changed in France. Example: A number of students having been unsuccessful in their applications onto a psychology master's course in France, had their applications accepted onto the Italian uni's master's course in Paris. The students having obtained their Italian Master's in psychology then applied to the national equivalence commission. Every single application was rejected. The Master's was valid in Italy, but it did not meet French requirements. The standard per se was fine but there are specific rules and regulations about the internships which did not match up at all. The Italian Master's would never have opened the way to qualification in France. The course having been taught in French would make it complicated for those who did not speak Italian to have the course validated as part of the pathway to obtaining a qualification in Italy either, again, I believe for questions of the internship. The angry and out-of-pocket parents sought legal advice. It went nowhere. The small print of the material presented by the uni covered them amply. Students and families had lost time and money. Not all of the students were from wealthy families. Some had taken out a loan and got into real difficulty taking a long term view, or so they thought, for something that could never be.

The takeaway is that the title of the diploma is important. An officially approved (state approved) licence/master/doctorat will have the correct name. If it has something else, then it is something else.