[Aardwolf]

As far as I understand the terminology, "bachelor" matches "undergrad student" and "master" matches "grad student". Is that right?

So this bachelor and master was just combined in one single 5-year program in my case.

Research, being teaching assistant, and writing papers was done by those who went for a PhD at my university, that is, after those 5 years, those who chose to do a PhD after receiving your master diploma.

Do you think it says something about the quality of the university, when master students were not teaching/writing papers/doing research, but simply doing exams as usual...? (Ok there was the thesis in the last year, but that was really more like a larger final project)

Most top universities in the world are indeed not in Europe, but in my country at least is was considered a good one.

[alistairSH]

See my sibling comment. But, yes, undergraduate = bachleors, graduate = masters or professional, post-graduate = PhD.

Typically, these labor issues revolve around post-graduate students who expect to be at school for many years. And not students who are just pursuing a Masters program, which only lasts a year or two.

[newen]

No...undergrad = bachelors. But graduate means both master's and phd. No one says graduate to mean solely master's. And post-graduate might be a vague term (no one uses it) but generally it means the same as just graduate.

[Aardwolf]

Alright, then it's quite similar after all, thanks!